Indian Express: New Delhi: Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
The Central
Information Commission has directed all three municipal corporations in the
national capital to make public all designated parking places in Delhi and fees
on their websites.
Information
Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad also directed the municipal corporations to give
specific details against each parking, the class-wise slots or areas earmarked
for parking.
"In the
considered opinion of the Commission, the class of information under question
ought to have been proactively disclosed by the public authority under Section
4(1)(b) of the RTI Act," Azad said.
He said there
is a larger public interest involved because of hardship faced by the public
due to lack of knowledge of designated parking areas.
Azad
underlined that the details should be proactively made public on the websites
to avoid a host of other problems faced by the public like unlawful levy of
parking fee, and obstruction in free flow of traffic due to parking of vehicles
on roads, among others.
He directed
the civic bodies to put up these details on their websites within three months.