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| Culture Ministry denies info about restoration of Bahu Fort wall | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 20: The State Government's Ministry of culture is shying away from providing information under RTI Act with regard to repair and restoration of a portion of wall of historic Bahu Fort of Jammu that had collapsed due to incessant rain on intervening night of 16 and 17 August last year.
An RTI application was filed with the General Administration Department (GAD) on 16/Nov/2013 along with the requisite fees which was further transferred by GAD to the Ministry of Culture (J&K Govt) within 5 days with a direction to provide the asked information but despite over a long delay of over 2 months the Culture Ministry has not served any reply to the applicant Raman Sharma.
Though as per the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009, the information must be provided to the information seeker as expeditiously as soon as possible but not later than 30 days and in case when no response is made it is deemed as a refusal .
While giving further detail about his RTI application, Raman informed that in his application he had sought information like "Whether any intimation or message was conveyed to J&K Government about the condition of the said fort before the collapse of the said wall. If yes please provide copy of the same and the details of steps being taken by the J&K Government on that" and name of the agency department that is monitoring the restoration work, name and particulars of any consultant agency whose proficiency is sought by the Government an also about the amount sanctioned for restoration and copy of the tender documents etc.
The information seekers said that the asked information was totally general in nature but deliberately the State Government is denying it because they don't believe in transparency and must be hiding facts from the people of Jammu to conceal its failure and criminal negligence, he also alleged that firstly the State Government allowed this historic fort to collapse and now taking so much time even to start the restoration work . It is pertinent to mention here that after the collapse of a portion this historic Bahu fort , the State Government was under severe criticism from social and political organizations and then to pacify the people the State Government and its Minister promised to complete the restoration work at an earliest. |
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