The SIC, ordered the CC to provide detailed employee information of the John Wilson Education Society, which has its office in Wilson College premises.
In an order that will bring in transparency within trusts and also at the charity commission (CC), the state information commission has stated that trust should be providing information about employees, their salary and other details to the CC and that the CC should be maintaining such records. Lately, activists have criticized CC for not having basic information about various trusts whenever they have sought from CC.
The state information commission (SIC) in an order directed CC to provide information about employees and other details of The John Wilson Education Society, which has its office in Wilson College premises.
The order was passed on an application by Naseer Jahagirdar by Ajit Kumar Jain, state chief information commissioner (in charge). Jahagirdar in his application with CC had sought details of The John Wilson Education Society, which has its office in Wilson College premises. The applicant mentioned in the application that the said society has employees who run the administrative and other activities of the trust.
Among the details he sought was total number of employees with their names and designation, their appointment letters and salary details and residential accomodation provided, if any to the said employees. It is often alleged that society / trusts would bring in a lot of transparency with regard to the employee structure in the trust and with respect to funds utilized as most society / trusts run on government aid or on charitable donations.
While the public information officer (PIO) did not provide the information, the first appellate authority (FAA) upheld the order of PIO. During the second appeal hearing at the commission, officials from CC office stated that there are more than one lakh charitable institutions and it is not possible to collate such information from them.
The applicant argued that under rule 8 of the Societies Registration (Maharashtra) Rules 1971 and 8.17 of the Bombay Public Trusts Act 1950 it is mandatory for the trust / society to furnish every year the details of their employees and a statutory duty cast on the Bombay Public Trust Office to collect and collate the information. The said provision is a check mechanism against illegal and fraudulent appointment or siphoning of funds by the society / trust and a protection mechanism against exploitation for the employees of the Trust employing them.
The commission ordered that the information should be collected by the CC from the trust and provided to the applicant. “This would also alleviate the illegalities in appointments and siphoning of trust funds through dubious means,” said Jahagirdar.
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