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The Tamil Nadu Information Commission has directed the Coimbatore Corporation to wage ₹10,000 arsenic compensation to an RTI applicant for failing to supply accusation wrong the 30-day deadline mandated nether the Right to Information Act, 2005. The bid was passed during a virtual proceeding held recently.
K. Deivasigamani, a retired DSP, had filed an RTI exertion connected January 16, 2023 with the Corporation’s West Zone bureau seeking details connected the reserve tract located astatine Maniyam Kaliappa Street successful Ward 43. He sought accusation connected the intent for which the onshore had been earmarked arsenic per Town and Country Planning approval, the existent presumption of the site, and documents relating to the projected operation of a h2o tank, including its authorisation bid and outgo estimate.
S.V. Lakshmanan, Administrative Officer, West Zone, appeared earlier the Commission arsenic the authorised typical of the Public Information Officer (PIO).
According to the Commission, nary accusation was provided wrong the statutory 30-day period. The archetypal reply was issued lone connected March 28, 2023, followed by different effect connected October 25, 2024. The petitioner aboriginal filed an entreaty connected June 6, 2025 stating that the replies were delayed and incomplete.
During the hearing, the Commission sought an mentation from the past PIO, identified arsenic M. Sekar, who was successful bureau astatine the clip of filing the RTI. The Corporation informed the Commission that Sekar had retired connected July 31, 2023, pursuing which further enactment against him was dropped.
Holding that the applicant did not person accusation wrong the stipulated time, the Commission ordered the Corporation to wage ₹10,000 arsenic compensation wrong 10 days and taxable impervious of outgo to the Commission.
Official sources said the compensation would beryllium paid arsenic directed and added that Sekar had been deputed to the Corporation from the Revenue Department and that the Corporation would constitute to the District Collector’s bureau seeking betterment of the compensation magnitude from his status benefits and reimbursement to the Corporation
