Jammu, 24/March/2022: Contrary to its claims of transparency and action against Land Mafias, Jammu Development Authority, JDA has failed to provide information about the total land belonging to JDA is under occupation of Land Mafias and so far vacated and retrieved by it.
Jammu
resident Raman Sharma had filed an application dated 31/January/2022 under Right to Information Act with the JDA
along with requisite fees as Indian Postal order bearing number 57F 913108 , the information seeker in his plea had sought details
about the total land owned by JDA, land
under occupation of Land Mafias and also the detail of land so far retrieved
and vacated by JDA from Land Mafias during the past 6-7 years.
The RTI application was sent by way of Speed Post
under receipt having no. EE894488167IN dated 31/01/2022.
As
per the postal department online tracking system, this RTI plea was delivered
to Jammu Development Authority on 01/Feb/2022 and under section 7(1) of the
Right to Information Act 2005, the
Public Information Officer of the JDA was legally bound to provide this
information or reject it within 30 days i.e.
on or before 02/March/2022 but as per the statement of the Information
Seeker the JDA has not provided any information or intimation to the applicant
about his RTI application so far and has preferred silence.
Citing
section 7(2) of the RTI Act 2005, the applicant informed that wherein the PIO fails to give decision
on an RTI application within 30 days time limit, it is deemed refusal and this
deemed rejection of information by JDA
is illegal and arbitrary and he would contest it before the appropriate
authority.
The
information seeker further disclosed
that the other queries in his RTI application include seeking the detail of
total number of cases pending against the Jammu development authority in
Subordinate Courts of district Jammu, before the Honourable High Court and Honourable
Supreme Court of India.
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