Citing that the Information Officer at the Youth and Small Entrepreneur Self-Employment Fund denied information, Dharmendra Jha (freedom1 Forum member and journalist) and Sanjiv Ghimire (Coordinator at RTI Support Center, FF), on August 21, 201, asked Executive Chief of the Fund to provide the following information they sought:
a. About the total amount collected in the Self-Employment Fund by receiving from Nepal government, national and international organizations, any individual and cooperatives. Separate details about the amount the Fund received in different times.
b. How is this amount provided, to which banks, commercial firms and cooperatives, and on which dates with what interest rate. Copies of the agreements made with the commercial firms and institutions after providing the amount in the fiscal year 2011/012 and 2010/011.
c. Details about progress of the commercial firms and institutions after receiving money from the Fund. What about the amount provided to the institutions which did not invest anywhere? Did they returned that amount and on which date they returned? Detailed information about the amount returned to different dates.
d. Who are the unemployed youths or their groups to take loans from the banks of the Fund. Full information about them as their address, occupations, where is the investment area, interest rate, date they take loans from the banks of the Fund.
e. What is total reserve of the Fund? What about the deposits and in which banks with what interest rate? Detail information about which level of official in the Fund that decides about depositing in the banks.
f. Copies of the annual auditing reports from the inception till date.
In the application, they have demanded action as per the Article 23 (1 and 2). And if the Fund can’t provide information, give reason why it can’t be provided by abiding by Article 4.
In line with the RTI Act 2007, they had earlier sought the information with registration no 54 with the Information Officer of the Fund on July 29, 2012.