Millennium Post: Delhi: Thursday,
March 16, 2017.
The Uttar
Pradesh Information Commissioner (UPIC) has imposed fine on the Architect in
the Planning Department of Noida Authority.
The fine is
imposed on one or more architects who were placed on the rank of Public
Information Officer from March 11, 2016 to February 9, 2017 in the Planning Department
of Noida Authority.
The fine was
imposed because they did not provide the information being asked through RTI.
Rs 250 per day will be deducted from their salary multiplied by the number of
days they have worked during the tenure. "A maximum of Rs 25 thousand can
be taken from each architect", said a senior official of state information
commission.
Ratanpal
Singh Yadav, a resident of Sector-12, Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad filed an RTI
seeking information about the proposed layout plan of Sector-121. The RTI was
approved by Chief Executive Officer of Noida Authority. Failing to provide the
information even after a year, the UPIC slapped the concerned officer with a
heavy fine.
Noida
authority proposed the layout plan of 123.41-hectare area in Sector-121 from
which 57.62 hectares of land was declared as residential, 10.99 hectares was
allotted to parks, green cover and high tension electricity line.
The RTI was
filed to seek details on division 57.62 and 10.99 hectares of the total land.
When the
information was not given over a period of time, Ratanpal made another appeal
seeking for quick information.
The
information provided was unclear and not satisfactory so he decided to report
the matter to UPIC.
Following
this, the UPIC imposed a fine of Rs 250 per day under section 201 of RTI
act-2005 on the Architect in the Planning Department of Noida Authority over
the delay in providing vague and delayed information.