Rohtak, May 28 -- Even as the Haryana government takes strict measures to recover penalties from 1,726 state public information officers (SPIOs) across 16 departments for not providing information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, a report from the Haryana Lokayukta has revealed that nearly Rs.2.95 crore in imposed penalties remains unrecovered.

The report, in the response of a complaint filed by RTI activist PP Kapoor, who alleged that despite penalties being imposed by the Haryana State Information Commission, many officers neither deposited the amount nor faced effective recovery proceedings, even as the state government has issued directions in February this year for the recovery of the penalties from the salaries of the erra...