Right to Information Act
 
 

The Right to Information Act 2005 came into force for its enactment from 12th October 2005 to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority in India. Under this act, we are committed to provide the following information on our website to every citizen of India.

 

(i)

Particulars of Organisation, Functions and Duties

(ii)

Powers and Duties of Officers and Employees

(iii)

Procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of supervision and accountability

(iv)

Norms set by NIOT for the discharge of its function.

(v)

Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by NIOT or under its control or used by its employees for discharge its function.

(vi)

Particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or representation by, the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or implementation thereof.

(vii)

A statement of boards, council, committees and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted as its part or for the propose of its advice, and as to whether meetings of these boards, councils, committees and other bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible for public.

(viii)

Directory of the officers and employees of NIOT.

(ix)

Monthly Remuneration Received By Each of its Officers and Employees, Including the System of compensation.

(x)

Budget Allocated to NIOT and to each Agency under its control.

(xi)

The manner of executed of Subsidy Program.

(xii) 

Particulars of Recipients of Concessions, permits or authorization granted by NIOT.

(xiii)

Details in respect of the information available to or held by NIOT, reduced in an electronic form.

(xiv)

Particular of the facilities available to citizens for obtaining information including the working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use

(xv)

The names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information Officers.

(xvi)

RTI Annual Return.

   

While formulating the research and development programmes, stress is laid on development of applied technology and that the benefits of these will reach the society.

 

For detailed information please refer NIOT's Website http://www.niot.res.in

 
(i)

Particulars of Organisation, Functions and Duties

   
To develop world class technologies and their applications for sustainable utilization of ocean resources.
   
To provide competitive, value added technical services and solutions to organizations working in the oceans.
   
To develop a knowledge base and institutional capabilities in India for management of ocean resources and environment.
 
(ii)

Powers and Duties of Officers and Employees

(iii)

Procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of supervision and accountability

(iv)
Norms set by NIOT for the discharge of its function.
 

While performing the duties assigned to the different officers/staff, they exercise by and large the powers prescribed by the guidelines issued by the Government form time to time as well as those prescribed under different manuals, rules like General Financial Rules, Delegation of Financial Power Rules, Manual of Office Procedures, etc.

(v)

Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by NIOT or used by its employees for discharges its functions

 

The officers/staff of NIOT discharge their functions based on the guidelines issued by the Government from time to time as well as those prescribed under different manuals, rules like General Financial Rules, Delegation of Financial Power Rules, Manual of Office Procedures, etc.

(vi)

Particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with or representation by, the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or implementation there of

 

There is no provision to seek direct consultation/ participation of public or its representation formulation of policies of NIOT or its implementation. The policies after due process and with approval of the Governing Council of NIOT/the Government.

(vii)

A Statement of boards, council, committees and other bodies consisting of more persons constituted as its part or for the propose of its advice, and as the meetings of these boards, councils, committees and other bodies are open public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible for public.

The work of various programmes/schemes being implemented by the Institute is carried out by the Governing Council headed by the Secretary, Department of Ocean Development. The meetings of the Governing Council/any of the Committees constituted are not open to public. The minutes of such meetings are also not accessible for public. The Governing Council consist of the following members:

 
1.

Dr.Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences

Chairman

2.

Financial Advisor, Ministry of Earth Sciences

Member

3.

Shri D.P.Singh, I.A.S, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences

Member

4.

Dr. S.K.Das, Advisor, Ministry of Earth Sciences

Member

5.

Dr. K.N.Shankara, Prof. Satish Dawan Professor, Bangalore

Member

6.

Dr. P.S.Nair, Prof. Satish Dawan Professor, Bangalore

Member
7.

Shri A.K.Verma, Advisor (S & T), Planning Commission

Member
8.

Prof. V.G.Idichandy, IIT, Madras Nomineee

Member
9.

Dr.M.A.Atmanand, Director, NIOT

Member - Secretary

(viii)

Directory of the officers and employees of the NIOT:

 

Designation

Name

Telephone
(Office)

E-mail
address

Director

Dr.M.A. Atmanand

6678 3301

atma@niot.res.in

Scientist F

Dr. V. Rajendran

6678 3400

raju@niot.res.in

Scientist F

Dr. Purnima Jalihal

6678 3350

purnima@niot.res.in

Scientist F

Dr.G. A. Ramadass

6678 3388

ramadass@niot.res.in

Scientist F

Dr.K. M. Sivakholundu

6678 3469

kmsiva@niot.res.in

Scientist F

Dr.R. Kirubagaran

6678 3418

kiruba@niot.res.in

Admin Officer

Shri.S.Srinivasa Murthy(I/C)

6678 3307

adminofficer@niot.res.in

Accounts Officer I

Shri T.P. Rangamaran

6678 3340

maran@niot.res.in

Purchase Officer

Shri S. Krishnamohan

6678 3322

mohan@niot.res.in

(ix)

Monthly Remuneration Received By Each of its Officers and Employees,  including the System of compensation:

 

Basic Pay of the Officers/Staff of the NIOT is given below. In addition, the Officers/Staff are drawing admissible allowances per the order of the Government of India issued from time to time.

TR>

Sl.No.

Name

Designation

Pay (Rs.)

Grade Pay (Rs.)

1

Atmanand M A

Director

47460

10000

2

Rajendran V

Scientist - F

47160

8900

3

Purnima Jalihal

Scientist - F

45810

8900

4

Ramadass G A

Scientist - F

46080

8900

5

Sivakholundu K M

Scientist - F

44770

8900

6

Kirubagaran R

Scientist - F

40200

8900

7

Dhilsha Rajapan
Scientist - E
43210

8700

8

Latha G

Scientist - E

40220

8700

9

Rajasekhar D

Scientist - E

41690

8700

10

Tata Sudhakar

Scientist - E

38790

8700

11

Raju Abraham

Scientist - E

38790

8700

12

Basanta Kumar Jena

Scientist - E

38790

8700

13

Rajesh P R

Scientist - E

38790

8700

14

Vijaya Ravichandran

Scientist - E

38790

8700

15

Deepak C R

Scientist - D

26100

7600

16

Sankar M

Scientist - D

24650

7600

17

Muthukumaravel S

Scientist - D

24650

7600

18

Ramesh S

Scientist - D

24650

7600

19

Phani Kumar S.V.S

Scientist - D

24650

7600

20

Venkatesan G

Scientist - D

23380

7600

21

Dharani G

Scientist - D

21900

7600

22

Vinith Kumar N V

Scientist - D

21900

7600

22

Shibu Jacob

Scientist - C

18750

6600

24

Prince Prakash Jebakumar JJ

Scientist - C

20280

6600

25

Ramesh N R

Scientist - C

21780

6600

26

Saravanan R

Scientist - C

21780

6600

27

Muthukrishna Babu S

Scientist - C

21780

6600

28

Suseentharan V

Scientist - C

21780

6600

29

Manoj Vasudevan

Scientist - C

21120

6600

30

Chitra K

Scientist - C

21120

6600

31

Muthuvel P

Scientist - C

21120

6600

32

Manecius Selvakumar J

Scientist - C

21120

6600

33

Srinivasan R

Scientist - C

20580

6600

34

Subramaniyan A N

Scientist - C

20310

6600

35

Sathia Narayanan D

Scientist - C

20310

6600

36

Arul Muthiah M

Scientist - C

18750

6600

37

Sundararajan S

Scientist - C

18750

6600

38

Kalyani M

Scientist - B

16860

5400

39

Malarkodi A

Scientist - B

19750

5400

40

Jossia Joseph K

Scientist - B

19180

5400

41

Aruna Kumar Avula

Scientist - B

18240

5400

42

Ravi(a)Gurusamy N

Scientist - B

17550

5400

43

Ramesh R

Scientist - B

17550

5400

44

Balaji D

Scientist - B

17550

5400

45

Amudha K.

Scientist - B

17550

5400

46

Rajesh S

Scientist - B

17550

5400

47

Mullaivendhan K

Scientist - B

16880

5400

48

Murugesh P

Scientist - B

16880

5400

49

Biren Pattanaik

Scientist - B

16880

5400

50

Harikrishnan G

Scientist - B

16880

5400

51

Samson Pakiaraj Raphael V
Scientist - B
16880

5400

52

Gnanaraj A.A

Scientist - B

15600

5400

53

Sunil Kumar T.R

Scientist - B

15600

5400

54

Pranesh S.B

Scientist - B

15600

5400

55

Sudha D.

Scientist - B

15600

5400

56

Gowthaman V

Technical Officer

16070

4200

57

Karthikeyan A

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

58

Umapathy A

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

59

Meenatchi Sundaram A

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

60

Vengatesan G

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

61

Shijo Zacharia

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

62

Sundar R

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

63

Sridharan R

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

64

Sajeev K S

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

65

Rajeshwari P M

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

66

Srinivasa Rao S

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

67

Latha D

Tech Assistant

13540

4200

68

Mary Leema Thilakam

Tech Assistant

13170

4200

69

Karuppasamy M

Tech Assistant

10920

4200

70

Saravanan M

Tech Assistant

13170

4200

71

Sundar Jesuraj S

Tech Assistant

13170

4200

72

Kantipuli Sudarsan

Tech Assistant

13170

4200

73

Sasikala T

Tech Assistant

13170

4200

74

Santhana Kumar J

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

75

Thirunavukkarasu A

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

76

Thamarai T

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

77

Raguraman G

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

78

Ramasundaram K

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

79

Chandran V

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

80

Vishwanath B O

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

81

Muthukumaran D

Tech Assistant

15810

4200

82

Chandrasekaran E

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

83

Narasimha Rao Y V

Tech Assistant

12810

4200

84

Jayakumar V.K.

Tech Assistant

12440

4200

85

Magesh Peter

Tech Assistant

12440

4200

86

Elangovan S.

Tech Assistant

10560

4200

87

Sivakumar L.

Tech Assistant

10560

4200

88

Murugesan M

Tech Assistant

10560

4200

89

Jayanthi K.

Tech Assistant

10560

4200

90

Suresh R

Tech Assistant

10560

4200

91

Ramesh K

Tech Assistant

10560

4200

92

Doss Prakash V

Tech Assistant

10560

4200

93

Muthukumar C

Tech Assistant

10130

4200

94

Pandurangan V

Tech Assistant

10130

4200

95

G. Nagarajan

Tech Assistant

10130

4200

96

Chandrasekar G

Tech Assistant

9300

4200

97

Vadivelan A

Tech Assistant

9300

4200

98

Venkatesan K

Tech Assistant

9300

4200

99

Sundaramoorthi V

Tech Assistant

9300

4200

100

Radhakrishnan M

Tech Assistant

9300

4200

101

Sundaravadivelu N

Tech Assistant

9300

4200

102

Charles Sathish Kumar S

Skilled Tech Staff

7400

1900

103

Ashok Kumar K

Skilled Tech Staff

7010

1900

104

Sheik Meeran Mohideen S A

Skilled Tech Staff

7280

1900

105

Suresh V S

Skilled Assistant

6810

1900

106

Ramakrushna Sahoo

Skilled Assistant

7080

1900

107

Sekaran G

Skilled Assistant

6880

1900

108

Junaid Ahmed

Skilled Assistant

7280

1900

109

Vinodh Kumar M

Helper

7180

1900

110

S. Sudhakar

Skilled Tech Staff

6810

1900

111

Jothi C

Skilled Tech Staff

6560

1900

112

Krishna Mohan S

Purchase Officer

18240

5400

113

Rangamaran T P

Office Superintendent

14440

4200

114

Rathikumari R

Junior Supdt

13020

4200
115

Gopalakrishnan M

Sr. Stenographer

11580

4200

116

Anuradha K R

Junior Supdt

11580

4200

117

Vasanthi K

DTP Assistant

13120

2400

118

Murthi K

Store Keeper

13130

2800

119

Hemavathi G

Assistant

10440

2800

120

Vatchala Kuppuraman

Assistant

9420

2800

121

Latha T

Assistant

8560

2800

122

Vasanthi S

Junior Assistant

10820

1900

123

Guruprasad Rao S

Junior Assistant

10550

1900

124

Easwari C

Junior Assistant

9760

1900

125

Megala D

Junior Assistant

7280

1900

126

Lavanya N N

Junior Assistant

6850

1900

127

Vaidehi L

Junior Assistant

6760

1900

128

Vijayalakshmi K

Junior Assistant

6760

1900

129

Anandan K

Attender

7070

1800

130

Saloman Raj P

Helper-Driver

6660

1800

131

Pradeep P G

Helper-Driver

5960

1800

132

Jayaprakash P

Helper-Driver

5960

1800

133

Arokia Prabhu L

Helper

5830

1800

 
(x)

Budget Allocated to NIOT control

Scheme-wise Budget Estimates for 2005-06 (plan)
 

S.No

Particulars

Budget 2005-06 (Rs In Lakhs)

1
National Institute of Ocean Technology

3700.00

2
Vessel Management Cell

441.71

3
National Data Buoy Programme
Establishment of National Early Warning System for

1289.01

4
Tsunami and storm surges in the Indian Ocean

2145.83

5

Development of Potential Drugs from the OceanDesign, development of collector and crushing system and crawler mounted testing in shallow seabed in Indian

78.24

6
waters / PMN Programme

1065.00

7

COMAPS Programme at Port Blair

19.19

8
Studies on Gas Hydrate Exploration and Technology development for its exploitation Nidhi

670.45

9
Acquisition of a Technology Demonstration Vessel - Sagar Nidhi

5900.00

10

Sea front facility

1474.00

11

Low cost Met Buoys

450.00

12

IT-E-governance activities

89.96

(xi)

The manner of executed of Subsidy Program.

 

There is no programme being executed by NIOT, which involve grant of subsidy to any person/Organization.

(xii)

The manner of executed of Subsidy Program.

 

The activities of the NIOT do not involve sanction for the grant of Concession/Permits/Authorization of any kind.

(xiii)

Details in respect of the information available to or held by NIOT, reduced in an electronic form.

 

Details in respect of the information available to or held by NIOT is contained in the following web site:

 

S.No.

Organisation

Address

Name of website

1.

National Institute of Ocean Technology

Velachery-Tambaram Road, Pallikaranai
Chennai -600100

Phone :91+44-22462039
Fax      :91+44-22460275

(xiv)

Particular of the facilities available to citizens for obtaining information including the working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.

 

The desired information can be obtained by the general public from the following means, which are open from 0900 hrs to 1730 hrs (except holidays);

 
Office Library
Facilitation Centre
Through News letter
Exhibition
Notice Board
Printed Reports Available
Website of NIOT
(xv)

The names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information Officers.

 

National Institute of Ocean Technology has designated the following officers as  Public Information Officer (PIO) and Assistant Public Information Officer (APIO):-

 
Public Information Officer

Assistant Public Information Officer

Dr.M.A. Atmanand
Director

Dr.G.A.Ramadass,
Scientist-F

Form for specific information other than above:
The relevant provisions of the Act towards charging fee are as under:
 
1.
A request for obtaining information under Sub-section (1) of Section 6 shall be accompanied by an application fee of Rs.10.00 by way of cash against proper receipt or by demand draft in the name of the 'Accounts Officer, National Institute of Ocean Technology ' payable at Chennai.
   
2.
For providing the information under Sub-section (1) of Section 7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against proper receipt or by Demand draft payable to the 'Accounts Officer, National Institute of Ocean Technology' at following rates:
 
a.
Rs.2.00 for each page (in A4/A3 size paper) created or copied
b.
Actual charge or cost price of a copy in larger size paper.
c.
Actual cost or price for samples or models; and
d.
For inspection of records, no fee for first hour; and a fee of Rupees 5.00 for each  fifteen minutes (or fraction thereof) thereafter.
   
3.
For providing the information under Sub-section (5) of Section 7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against proper receipt or by Demand draft payable to the 'Accounts Officer, National Institute of Ocean technology' at following rates:
 
a.
For information provided on CD Rs.50.00 per CD; and
b.
For information provided in printed from at the price fixed for such publication or Rs.2.00 per page of photocopy for extracts from the publications.
   
The payment is required to be despatched to:
 

The Director,
(Public Information Officer)

NATIONAL INSTITUE OF OCEAN TECHNOLOGY,
NIOT Campus, Velachery - Tambaram Main Road,
Narayanapuram, Pallikaranai,
Chennai - 600 100,
Tamil Nadu, INDIA.


Phone: 66783300
Fax: 22460275


(xvi)

RTI Annual Return.

 
Right To Information Annual Return 2007 - 2008
Ministry / Department / Organization : National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai
  : Ministry of Earth Sciences
Year : 2007-2008 (Upto March 2008)
 

Progress in 2007-08
  Opening Balance as on 01.04.2007 Received during the Year (including cases transferred to other Public Authority) No. of cases transferred to other Public Authorities Decisions where requests / appeals rejected Decisions where requests / appeals accepted
Requests 1 5 0 0 5
First Appeals 0 0   0 0
 
No. of Cases where disciplinary action taken against any Officer 0
 
No. of CAPIOs designated No. of CPIOs designated No. of AAS designated
1 1 NA
 
No. of times various provisions were invoked while rejecting requests
Relevant Section of RTI Act 2005
Section 8 (1) Sections
a b c d e f g h i j 9 11 24 Others
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 
Amount of Charges Collected (in Rs.)
Registration Fee Amount Additional Fee & Any other charges Penalties Amount
50 0 0
 
RTI Annual Return Information System (2007 – 2008)
National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai
Ministry of Earth Sciences
(Please note that field prefixed with * are mandatory)
* Organization Status Attached Office Autonomous Body under Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
* Name of Organization (upto 100 characters) National Institute of Ocean Technology
* Nodal / Coordinating Officer Name Dr. G.A. Ramadass
* Nodal / Coordinating Officer dessignation Scientist - E
* Contact Address National Institute of Ocean Technology
Velachery Tambaram Main Road,
Pallikaranai, Chennai – 600 100.
* State Tamilnadu
E-Mail Address pio@niot.res.in
Phone Number 044 – 6678 3388
Fax No., (if any) 044 – 2246 0645
Website address of Department / Organization
(Please do not write ‘http://’)
www.niot.res.in
 
RTI Annual Return Information System (2007 – 2008)
National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai
Ministry of Earth Sciences
(Please note that fields prefixed with * are mandatory)
* Name of CPIO M.A. Atmanand
* Sex Male
* Designation Director
* Address National Institute of Ocean Technology,
Velachery – Tambaram Main Road,
Pallikaranai, Chennai.
Pincode 600 100.
Phone No. 6678 3303
Email director@niot.res.in
Subject  
* Appellate Authority Name NA