In a move which could help people of Punjab get the services from State Government in time under the Right to Service (RTS) Act, the RTS Commission on Friday imposed a penalty of `5,000 on civil surgeon, Amritsar for failing to provide birth certificate in stipulated time period.
Taking strict cognizance of the harassment meted out to complainant for undue delay in issuing the birth certificate, the RTS Commissioner Dalbir Singh Verka has imposed a fine of ` 5,000 on the Civil surgeon, Amritsar and ` 2,500 on a clerk responsible for the unwarranted delay in delivery services.
Disposing off a petition filed by Balwinder Singh a resident of village labha Dariya Tehsil Ajnala district Amritsar, Verka said that the Commission could not tolerate the deliberate laxity on the part of any official to provide services mentioned in the Act.
The RTS Commissioner said that as a public servant every officer was duty bound to provide the services in a time bound manner failing which they were liable to be penalized.
Verka said the sole job of the Commission was to safeguard the interests of the people by ensuring prompt and hassle free deliverance of services to them as prescribed in the Act by implementing it in an effective manner. He said any callousness on the part of the officials in providing services to the people within the prescribed time period would not be tolerated.