nagpur despite being penalized twice for not supplying information under the rti act the forest department has once again denied information on encroachments and titles to individuals and to communities under the forest rights act 2006rti activist avinash prabhune had filed an application with the forest department on july 17 2017 seeking information about individual and community rights cfrs details area under it and encroachments on it however forest officials did not supply information despite all details and directed the application to tribal development commissioner nashikinformation received by prabhune on september 18 from the tribal commissioner on the issue exposes double standards and casual approach of the department in honouring rti applicationswhile the forest officials denied information by transferring prabhunes application to nashik it on its own readily provided all the details on september 17 to toi after felix padel anthropologist and descendant of great biologist charles darwin during his city visit on september 14 blamed poor implementation of fra for tribals present plightif the forest department had all information on fra why did it transfer my rti application to nashik and waste two months asks prabhuneinterestingly information supplied by the tribal commissioner who is the nodal officer on fra implementation did not supply data on encroachments and said the said information is available with the forest departmentsecondly the details supplied by the forest department do not match with the data supplied by the tribal commissioner praveen srivastava additional principal chief conservator of forests apccf information technology and policy admitted that it was a clerical mistake on part of the department where details of individual titles and forest area was computed as cfr and viceversaon why details of area under encroachments were not supplied srivastava said the said issue pertained to apccf conservation and hence was not available with his department we had specially sought the data from the tribal commissioner to clarify padels statementhowever prabhune says forest department is repeatedly violating rti act by not supplying information this despite the fact it was twice imposed a fine of rs2000 by the state information commission sic i will appeal before the sic now against the forest department for not giving any information he addedprabhune said forest officials deliberately did not supply information on encroachments under fra they are only propagating the positive side of the issue to score brownie points by saying they were far ahead in implementing fra however reality is that hundreds of hectares of forest land has been encroached under the garb of fra he alleged