. Right to Public Services legislation in Himachal pradesh comprises statutory law which guarantee time bound delivery of services for various public services rendered by the Government to citizen and provides mechanism for punishing the errant public servant who is deficient in providing the service stipulated under the statute.
Key provisions of the act are as follows:
- The State Government may, from time to time, notify the services, designated officers, first appellate authority, second appellate authority and stipulated time limits for the purpose of this Act.
- The designated officer shall provide the service notified under section 3 of the law to the person eligible to obtain the service, within the stipulated time limit.
- Stipulated time limit shall start from the date of receipt of application for notified service by the designated officer or the person subordinate to him authorized to receive such applications and such application shall be duly acknowledged by him.
- The designated officer on receipt of an application under shall, within the stipulated time limit, either provide service or reject the application and in case of rejection of application, shall record the reasons in writing and intimate to the applicant.
- A second appeal against the decision under sub- section (2) of section 6 shall lie within sixty days from the date of decision to the second appellate authority.
- Provided that the second appellate authority may admit the appeal after the expiry of the period of sixty days, if he is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.
- The first appellate authority and the second appellate authority shall, while conducting proceedings under this section have the same powers as are vested in a civil court while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.