Times of India: Gurgaon: Sunday, July 26, 2015.
The state
information commission has issued a show-cause notice to Great India Nautanki
Company Ltd, which runs the popular entertainment destination Kingdom of Dreams
in Gurgaon, directing it to answer why it did not respond to an RTI filed by a
city activist, Harinder Dhingra.
The SIC has
also directed the company to submit a written reply by August 10th and send a
representative to be present on August 19 for the hearing.
The RTI,
filed by Dhingra in March 2014, had sought information on the records of land
allotted for KoD by HUDA, details of the outstanding amount the company owes to
HUDA, licences obtained from the food and drug administration, permission
sought from the labour department and the details of the entertainment tax
deposited by the company since its inception. The RTI had also sought a copy of
the NOC that the company obtained from the Haryana state pollution control
board.
"I had
filed the RTI because I found irregularities in the land allotted for KoD, and
I wanted the organization to be transparent," said Dhingra.
According to
the SIC notice (a copy of which is with TOI), the GINC was asked to provide
information to the RTI activist in December 2014. But GNIC had refused to
comply with the order stating that being a private company they did not fall
under RTI's ambit. The SIC had stated that as the company operated on HUDA
land, with a substantial amount of lease financed by the latter, the GINC,
therefore, required to comply to all rules and regulations of RTI.
When
contacted, KoD's legal counsel Vinay Shukla said, "We are yet to get the
notice. As soon as we receive it we shall follow the law and attend the
hearing."
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