Times of India: Pune: Sunday,
December 04, 2016.
Nagrik Chetna
Manch, a citizens' organisation, has demanded action against officials of the
Pune Municipal Corporation for delaying and giving incomplete and inaccurate
information under the Right to Information Act. The matter pertains to leasing
out of civic properties and the rent recovered.
Qaneez
Sukhrani, a member of the group, claimed that the civic officials took almost
four months to give the information she had sought. And when it finally came,
the information was incomplete. For a detailed information, she was asked to
visit the PMC's website which was under construction.
"The
civic body officials need to pull up their socks and be more accountable and
responsible where public money is concerned. For failure and delay in
collecting rental dues, the officials concerned should be issued show cause
notices and suspended," she said.
Sukhrani
claimed that going by the delay in getting a reply to her query, it is quite
evident that the PMC's land and estate department had tried cover up
irregularities and deficiencies in collecting rent of leased properties.
"For
more information, I was asked to check the PMC's website as per section 4 of
the RTI Act 2005, but on visiting the site, it was found to be under
construction," she said. Such figures should be readily available,
especially if the financial transactions were closed for the year, she added.
Sukhrani said
the information given by the department does not clarify on the doubts the Manch
had regarding an amount of Rs 13 crore which was yet to be recovered from the
people who had taken the properties on rent.
Ravi
Khandhare, public information officer, PMC, who provided the data, said,
"We get the information from the departments which is then given to
applicants. If there is any query about figures, the officials of the
department should be approached."
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