Corporation Official Gets it for Failing to Send RTI Reply on Dump Yard

The New Indian Express: Coimbatore: Tuesday, 15 July 2014.

The State Information Commission has ordered the Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner to take disciplinary action against the Deputy Commissioner for failing to provide information regarding Vellalore dump yard under the Right to information (RTI) Act to an applicant.

According to the order copy available with Express, City Corporation commissioner G Latha can take disciplinary action against Deputy Commissioner S Sivarasu, who has failed to provide few details regarding the Vellalore dump yard.

RTI applicant K S Mohan who is the secretary of the Kurichi Vellalore Pollution Prevention Action Committee has sought answers to 14 questions related to the dump yard from the city Corporation. Mohan and his committee members are fighting for about a decade to shift the dump yard from the present locality.

The DC had failed to provide details about the total amount spent for the Vellalore dump yard so far, besides the total amount handed over to the private company which is maintaining the dump yard.

However, Sivarasu provided answers to the other queries sought by Mohan such as inspection report carried out at the scientific closure site.

The State Information Commission Christopher Nelson has also ordered the Public Information Officer Natarajan to pay `25,000 as fine for failing to provide details to few questions sought in the RTI.