Right to Information

Right to Information Act, 2005
17 items (manuals) prescribed in clause ( b) sub-section 1 of section 4 which every public authority required to publish within one hundred and twenty days from the enactment of this Act.

1. Particulars of National Institute of Occupational Health, functions and duties.
 
The function and duties of national institute of occupational health are to identify and mitigate the occupational and environmental health problems in the country through multi disciplinary approach.
 
2. Power and Duties of Officers and employees
 
Scientist- 'B' & Scientist- 'C'

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To plan and execute the research projects

--> Organizing and participation in the training programmes as well as awareness programmes of
      Institute mandates

Scientist- 'D', Scientist-'E' & Scientist- 'F'

--> Organizing and participation in the training programmes as well as awareness programmes of
      Institute mandates

--> To help the Director in running the administration

--> To plan and execute the research projects

Director

--> Working as Head of the Organisation  and  to  run the  administration as well as to guide the
      sscientific officers for running the projects being approved by the Scientific Advisory Committee.
--> Financial and administration power as defined in by laws of ICMR and CSS rules.
 
3. Procedure followed in the decision making process including channels of supervision
    and accountability.
 
Review Mechanism

A. Scientific Advisory Committee: Reputed national and international scientists in the field of    occupational and environmental health are nominated as Chairman and Members of Scientific Advisory    Committee (SAC). The  chairman  and  members of SAC are free from any administrative control of DG    or Director of  the  Institute. They  meet  at regular intervals and critically evaluate the scientific and    developmental activities of the Institute and its centres.
   
B. Scientific Advisory Group (SAG): The   annual  report   of   NIOH   alongwith   SAC   Observation/    Recommendation  presented  by  the  Director  and  Chairman  of  the  SAC  in SAG at division of Non    Communicable Disease, ICMR for their expert advice.

C. Ethics Committees:

Ø Human Ethics Committee: The Institute constituted a committee under the Chairmanship of Retired    High Court Judge with experts from  Medical  Colleges, NGOs,  Governmental  Institutions. Every year,    before the  SAC the committee meets and offers their comments in each new project.

Ø Animal Ethics Committee: Laboratory animal facility of the institute is registered with the    committee for the purpose of control and  supervision of experiments on animals (CPCSEA), which is a    regulatory  body  for  experiments  on  animals functioning under Animal Welfare Division of Ministry of    Environment  and  Forests,  Govt. of India.  Institutional  Animals   Ethics   Committee  (IAEC),  which    includes a  CPCSEA-Nominee,  experts  from  outside the institute, and a non-scientific socially aware    member from  NGO  has  been constituted as per directives of CPCSEA. Scientific Advisory Committee   (SAC) approved research projects involving use of laboratory animals are undertaken only after getting    approval of IAEC.

Ø Scientific & Financial Audit:

·  The  Principal  Directorate  of  Audit,  Scientific  Department,  Mumbai is undertaking the audit of the    institute accounts as well as projects accounts. The scientific activities of the projects as well as the    financial activities of the Institute are also being reviewed by the Principal Directorate of Audit,     Scientific Department, Mumbai.

· The internal audit team from Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, New Delhi is also doing    the audit of the project's accounts

·  Internal audit team of our Headquarters i.e. DG, ICMR, New Delhi is also being conducted.

 
4. Norms set by NIOH / ICMR / Minstry for the discharge of the function
 
5. The rules regulation INstruction manuals and records, held by ministry of health and family      welfare or under its control or used by its employees for discharging its function.
    
    The  NIOH  follows  ICMR  By-LAWS  and CCS rules of Gov of India and guidelines issued from time to time.
 
6. Statement of categories of documents that are held by Ministry of Health and Family welfare     under its control

    Annual Reports, Budget Documents and Scientific Published papers
 
7. The particulars of any arrangement that exists consultation with or representation by the      member of the public in relation to the formulation for its policies.
 
8. Boards, councils committes and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted     as its part or for the purpose of its advice, and as to whether meeting of those boards,     councils, committees and other bodies are open to the public or the minutes of such meeting     are accessible for public.
 
9. Directory of NIOH officers and employees [ CLICK HERE ]
 
10. Monthly enumeration received by each of officers and employees. [ CLICK HERE ]
 
11. Budget allocated to the NIOH, plans expenditure disbursement etc. [ CLICK HERE ]
 
12. Execution of subsidy programmes, concessions, permits, permit and or authorisation        granted by NIOH.
 
13. Particulars of recipients of concession, permits or authorisation granted by ministry / ICMR
 
14. Information held by the NIOH in electronic form

     Annual report, budget, publication, newsletter  [ CLICK HERE ]
15. Paticulars of facilites available to citizens for obtaining information including the working        hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
 
16. The names designation and other particulars of the public information officers.
      
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17. Such other information as may be prescribed - on website (tender, employment Notice,        News And Events)

 

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