6A. Power of Commissioner to specify mode of furnishing information or making application or petition and disposal thereof.-

Power of Commissioner to specify mode of furnishing information or making application or petition and disposal thereof.-

(1) Wherever the mode or manner has been prescribed in these rules in respect of submission of any application or petition or furnishing of any information under the Act by an employer or any other person and about disposal thereof, the Commissioner may, by general or special order, specify and arrange for online furnishing of any information or submission of any or all of such applications or petitions by following the electronic process incorporated in the website of the Directorate for such purpose, by all or any such employer or class of employer or person as he deems fit, and also for disposal of such applications or petitions by following the appropriate electronic process deployed for such purpose, and the decision of the Commissioner about selection of the nature of application or petition or furnishing of information or about an employer or person in respect of which submission of such application or petition or furnishing of information shall be only by online mode, shall be final.

(2) Wherever the Commissioner makes arrangement for online submission of any application or petition or furnishing of information in accordance with sub-rule (1), all or any such employer or class of employer or person as may be specified by the Commissioner in the general or special order issued for such purpose shall submit such application or petition or furnish such information only through online mode, and no such application or petition or information shall be accepted in manual mode unless the Commissioner, upon application by such an applicant or petitioner and for cogent reasons, allows such an applicant or petitioner to submit such an application or petition or furnish such information manually, and the decision of the Commissioner in this respect shall be final.