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 The Act enables the PIO to seek assistance of any other officer to enable him to provide information to the information seeker, **but it does not give him authority to designate any other officer as PIO and direct him to send reply to the applicant**.
+The PIO disposes his responsibility and liability in terms of his duties under the Act, as soon as he seeks the information from the relevant officers. The PIO should send a written note or email for the information required by a RTI application to an appropriate officer who has the relevant information.  The PIO can even send this communication to a senior officer. This should be done within one or two days of receiving the RTI application.  In that case, any failure or penal provisions would be attracted by the other officer, often called ‘deemed PIO’. It would be advisable for the head of the office to identify the deemed PIOs holding various categories of information, by an internal order. This would make it easy for the PIO to direct the queries to the right person and eliminate ambiguity.
+This provision envisages that not just the PIO but anybody or everybody who holds information has a duty to provide information under this  Act. This is an important provision which underlines the responsibility of the entire Public Authority and all its officers to facilitate access to information to the citizen. If public authorities follow the provisions of Section 4 properly, it would be easy for the PIO  to provide the information.
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