The Tribune: Chandigarh: Wednesday, June 07, 2017.
The State
Information Commission has given the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA)
eight weeks to upload on its website
information pertaining to persons who have been allotted plots under the
reserved category since its inception.
Chief
Information Commissioner Yash Pal Singhal issued the orders on an appeal filed
by Gurugram-based RTI activist Harinder Dhingra, who claimed he had failed to
get a positive response from the State Public Information Officer and HUDA’s
First Appellate Authority to his application moved in November.
There are
several categories in HUDA’s reservation
list government employees, members of the armed forces, ex-servicemen,
war widows, disabled soldiers, freedom fighters, advocates, Scheduled Castes,
Backward Classes, oustees, etc. Though under the rules they can be allotted a
plot only once, names of 3,000 persons allegedly having been allotted plots up
to eight times have appeared in a petition that is pending before the Punjab
and Haryana High Court.
Dhingra had
sought that the list of all such allottees be uploaded on HUDA’s website.