Sunday, July 8, 2007

Mangadu Town Panchayat asked to explain under RTI

This blog is happy to report that the Mangadu Town Panchayat has been asked under the Right to Information Act, 2005, to explain the steps taken to provide roads and civic amenities in Jeeva Nagar.

The RTI application was sent on July 3, 2007. This means the Executive Officer of the Panchayat, who is the Public Information Officer under the Act, has one month to explain the situation.

We will update the blog with the progress in the matter.

An unusual occurrence

This blog has heard that three vehicles appearing to be from the Police came to Jeeva Nagar on the night of July 6, 2007 and the personnel entered the houses of some residents claiming to be conducting a search.

It is reported that some of them were in possession of metal detectors and so on.

They got a call while they were in the layout and suddenly left, apologising to the residents.

Both Poonamallee Police Station and Mangadu Police Station had no idea about any search operation in the area. The personnel at the Poonamallee PS were needlessly rude to the residents of Jeeva Nagar when they went to enquire about the incident. That is not surprising, given that the general demeanour of most Indian police personnel is less then civilised and they consider the taxpaying public to be helpless.