Vice President to inaugurate new SIC building today

LUCKNOW: The much awaited formal inaugural ceremony of new building of the State Information Commission will take place on July 11.

Vice President Hamid Ansari will be the chief guest on the occasion.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, governor Ram Naik and state chief information commissioner Jawed Usmani would be present on the occasion. All 10 state information commissioners would also be present during the event.

Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the Vice President’s visit.

Inspector general, Lucknow zone, A Satish Ganesh, is reviewing the security arrangements at the ‘RTI Bhawan’, the new building of the State Information Commission.

The State Information Commission started working from the new building from April 4 this year but formal inaugural ceremony of the building is still awaited.

Due to busy schedule of the Vice President, the State Information Commission could not get confirmation from his office about his visit to Lucknow.

Before shifting to the new building in Gomti Nagar, the State Information Commission was operating from Indira Bhawan.

The new four-storey building of the SIC has come up at Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar, with a cost of `20 crore. The Rajkiya Nirman Nigam, an agency of the state government, had constructed the new building.

On an average, each court takes up 50 cases. Litigants from all across the state come to the SIC’s office here in the state capital when their RTI applications go unheard.