Times of India: Coimbatore: Saturday, December 02, 2017.
The city
corporation has failed to put up resolutions and details of the projects on it
website for the past three months, denying citizens the right to information.
The civic
body had launched the website after the right to information Act specified that
they need to disclose information to the public. As per Section 4 of RTI Act,
they have to disclose all information to the public voluntarily.
"The
minutes and agenda of the council meeting should be put up on the website. Even
if the council is not there, the corporation commissioner, who is the special
officer, should ensure that these details are uploaded," said RTI activist
SP Thiyagarajan.
Council
secretary A Amalraj, who is in charge of the online initiative, said the
website has been down for several months. "We are co-ordinating with the
IT department, who have found some issues with the site. Once the issues are
resolved, we will put up all details," he said.
Programmer
Karthi said the website was being developed with new features and all information
would be uploaded soon.
Meanwhile,
residents said that the corporation had not uploaded any information about
projects for the past several years. "Until 2010, some information was
uploaded. After that, none of the project information has been uploaded,"
said a resident.
As per the
norms, details of water connection, pending details, charges, plan approval
information, pending applications, under construction public building, action
taken, court case details, road work and other engineering work in progress
with fund details, quality and quantity, contractor detail, date of
commencement of projects, date of probable completion, streetlight details, all
tender details, parks and public purpose sites should all be put up on the
website.
"In
fact, when a road work is taken up, information should be uploaded about the
progress of the work every day," said secretary of the Coimbatore Consumer
Cause K Kathirmathiyon.
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