The
Hans India: Hyderabad: Tuesday, 08 December 2015.
Right to
Information (RTI) Act brought a big relief to an 80-year-old woman who has been
fighting to get back ‘excess’ money paid under Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS)
for the past seven years.
In hurry to
avoid demolition by the GHMC officials, K Rajeshwari had paid Rs 1.37 lakh as
per the BPS scheme. After some time, she
came to know that she did not need to pay paid such high amount as the actual
amount she was entitled to pay was Rs 11,616 only.
Rajeshwari
requested the Deputy Commissioner, Circle 10, Khairatabad, to refund the excess
amount she had paid on November 2011. But there was no positive response from
the officials. Rajeshwari again represented her case to the GHMC officials in
March 2015.
When she did
not get any response, she filed an application to the Deputy Commissioner and
Public Information Officer (PIO), Zonal Commissioner and the First Appellate
Authority in May 2015. Since there was
no response from the officials, she filed the second appeal with the AP
Information Commission requesting for relevant information from PIO. State
Information Commissioner Dr Varre Venkateshwarlu observed that Rajeshwari was
pursuing refund of excess amount from 2009 and no action was taken.
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