JAMMU, Aug. 19 -- The J&K Waqf Board has declined to provide information sought under the Right to Information (RTI) Act regarding donations and offerings received during the financial year between 2020-21 to 2026 at Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah Shahdara Sharif shrine at Rajouri citing staff shortage.

The reply has been furnished by the Waqf board in an RTI application by a Jammu-based RTI activist Raman Kumar Sharma, who sought financial year-wise details of cash offerings and donations received at the shrine from 2020-21 onwards.

He also sought the assessed value and quantity of gold, silver, jewellery, precious metals, precious stones and other valuables received as offerings in the holy shrines during the same period.

The activist soug...