RTI Filing

[tarun1305]

Hi Seema,

It was a big draft but great effort. I am also ready to submit one application under RTI.The most important will be the basic infrastruture like roads in the adjoining localities, Water, Electricity and Sewarage.

With Regards
Tarun

[s1joshi]

Thanks Tarun,

We would need to have clear cut questions framed for infrastructure development, If you would like to add up some queries corresponding to any of the item listed in draft, Please post it up in the forum. Similarly incase there is something I have missed, Please do add that as well.

Lets have some more input's and then we can take individual ownership for submission and followup.

Regards
Seema

[s1joshi]

Hi All: For quick reference of points, I am pasting the draft again (Earlier it was posted as an attachment). Please provide your inputs corresponding to each section, or add more points.

This might be a big questionnaire, but I believe these are valid questions and we would need to work out ways to get the answers


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Name
Address Details
Contact Details
21 June 2009

To:

Central Public Information Officer
Chief Town Planner
District Town Planner

Planning Wing,
Haryana Urban Development Authority,

Plot No. C-3, HUDA Complex, Sec-6, Panchkula
P.No 0172-2570757

Dear Sir,

Subject : Application under Right to Information Act 2005.
Ref: : Nehar Par area, New Faridabad Development Plans

There are large number of new Group Housing Projects which are in progress in New Faridabad (Neharpar) area, Most of these would be ready for possession by first quarter 2010, I would like to know the government plans, schedule and budgets for development in this area.

Please provide following information under Right to information Act 2005.

1. Please provide the details of infrastructure projects in place for connecting Neharpar area in Faridabad to existing residential colonies

a) What are the major projects in progress by HUDA to improve connectivity of Faridabad to other areas
b) If all the required clearances have been received for Eastern Peripheral Expressway and Western peripheral expressway. Please provide current status, Estimated Cost, Route, Estimated start Date, Estimated Completion Date. Incase the bidding process has completed, Please provide details of the authority.
c) What is the current status of Badarpur Flyover project,estimated completion date for Badarpur Flyover project, Are there any efforts to expedite its constructions and complete this before commonwealth games. What are the penalty clauses if there is a delay.
d) What is the status on development of six-laning of Delhi-Agra stretch of NH-2.
e) At which all places in the Agra-Gurgaon canal, bridges are planned to be constructed to provide connectivity to Neharpar, Please provide details of authority doing construction and by what time frame these bridges will be in place.
f) Are there any other proposed connectivity routes in plan to connect Neharpar with existing residential colonies.
g) Are there any plan of widening of Kheri road in new Faridabad.
h) Who would be the authority responsible for building of sector roads. What is the status of work in that area. Who are the officer’s incharge for development of these roads?


2. Considering one of the major sports shooting will be happening each day in Faridabad are in Dr. Karni Singh shooting range, what are HUDA efforts for image building of surrounding areas. What are the developments in progress for commonwealth games

3. What is the status on clearance for Metro Rail connectivity in Faridabad. Are there any efforts in progress to get Metro rail connectivity to Faridabad in Phase 2 before common wealth games,
a) If not what is the tentative time for Faridabad to get Metro connectivity.
b) In case the metro stations are identified, Please provide the name of stations.

4. Beside Metro, What are the major public transportation projects and drives in progress by HUDA.
a) Are there any efforts to bring quality buses as a means to improve public transport?

5. With huge proportion of agricultural land being converted into group housing projects,
a) What would be the total approx area of new sectors in New Faridabad region.
b) What would be the number of trees that have been required to cut for development of these sectors
c) What is the numbers of trees being planted and in which areas are the trees being planted for restoring the green land.
d) Who is the authority responsible?

6. Most of the real state builders (example RPS Savana, BPTP, Omaxe) has claimed to provide 80% green area and only 20% residential area) in their housing projects.
a) Builders are required to certify their architectural plans by the government. Hence would government authorities have a record to certify these claims (Specifically for RPS Savana. )
b) Are there any penality clauses incase builders fail to comply with the 80% green land area as promised.

7. What are Government plans and timelines for Water, Sewage and Electricity for thousand of residents that would be staying in these newly cut sectors.

8. Are there any plans for piped gaslines in these areas, If so by what time.

9. Congratulations to HUDA for achieving egovernance award recenly.

a) However the HUDA website does not contain any detail on the projects in progress or in plan. For future reference, Please provide details of the place where citizen can find the required information

Please provide the all requested information as above, once the information is received as per request and as per RTI the inspection of the records/files will be done in coordination with concerned departments(please indicate date). If any charges to be paid for photocopies kindly mentions the number of pages and amount. If any information available on the department website, kindly mention the link in the answers.

I state that the information sought does not fall within the restrictions contained in section 8 of the Act and to the best of my knowledge it pertains to your office.

If any of the information sought above does not pertain to you, kindly forward it, under intimation to me, to the respective department under section 6(3) of RTI Act 2005 within 5 days receipt of application.

The Answer/information may be provided me through (preferred) by e-mail : email address through Department Website with intimation to undersigned or by mail.

I am enclosing a postal order number --------------- (Issued by -------) dated------.

Thanking you,
Name

[ddamitav]

hi Seema,

I have gone thru ur draft and its almost cover all points. One point we can insert i..e " How much Money HUDA collected as EDC and IDC and how and when are they planning to utilize it.

We shall wait another 7 days so that other members can contribute and we have 3 volunteers including you and we need atleast 10.

Regards,

amitav

[webmaster]

Hi,

It seems that we are heading in a good direction.

I'll try to provide support technically as I am very inexperienced in the administrative area.

I have also mass-emailed to all the registered users to join and participate in this discussion. Hopefully more people should join in.

[s1joshi]

Hi Amit,

Yeah, thats a good point and we should seek this info.

As regard to volunteer count, I think we are fine, Its all on interest basis and can be managed. Once we have the questions in place, submission is no major task.

Regards
Seema

[ddamitav]

Hello Seema,

Great! lets proceed ahead...

Jayanto: Could you please forward this to all the members by mail id along with the draft RTI for their feed back, so that we can fredge the points and proceed for next step.

Regards,

Amitav

[mbhattacharya]

Hello Guys,

I must first say thanks to all of you who are so much putting time and effort to our common cause.

Lets hope our effort to get some basic services around our area bring some results and when we get the possesion of our flats people can actually move and start living there.

All the Best !

Best Regards,

Madhusudhan Bhattacharya

[ddamitav]

hello Madhusudan,

We expect you to participate actively for this cause!!!

Regards,

Amitav

[alok_gupta]

Seema,

All your points are valid but we should concentrate on urgent issues. We should concentrate on only RPS Savana township and ask questions regarding development of roads leading to RPS Savana township, supply of electricity and water to RPS Savana township, development of sewage network connection for RPS Savana township, . HUDA has collected thousands of crores of rupees as EDC and IDC. How are they utilizing the money and by when can they create proper infrastructure for the residents.

We need to be very precise if we want to get any answers from them.

Alok
Mobile: 9313939604

[s1joshi]

Well I dont totally agree .. Our focus might be RPS Savana but I dont think if HUDA digs up roads or does something on infrastructure it would be doing it specifically for this project... .. road/water/sewage/electricity/transport these remain a general issue across all projects in neharpar,
Having said that anyone and everyone has right to question on the same.

Regards
Seema

[s1joshi]

Or else, If you can help frame specific question related to Savana, It would be helpful.

[alok_gupta]

Seema,

If we try to get all the information at one time, we will not get a proper response as this will involve a number of HUDA departments. We already know that work on Badarpur Flyover is in progress at a good pace and is scheduled to be completed before Commonwealth games. Also 6 laning of bypass road has started at a good pace. I pass through these areas as my office is in Noida and I live in Faridabad.
But there is no progress on widening of kheri road or development of sector roads in neher paar area. Even the land has not been acquired for this purpose by HUDA.
We should ask only one important question: how the money being collected for EDC and IDC against RPS Savana being utilized with regards to roads, water, electricity and sewage connections?
Work for Taj Expressway is being done by UP govt and eastern peripheral expressway is stuckup due to problems in land acquisitions. We should not ask these questions as the money deposited for EDC and IDC does not cover this.
Whatever we do should be fruitful.

Best Regards,

Alok

[s1joshi]

Hi Alok,

Yes I absolutely agree with you.

Let me reiterate, In this draft, I had put up all points, which I had in mind... It does not imply that all this need to in one application, For best results we should categorize the points - by priority, by department etc and file Separate RTI application to seek information, Otherwise as you rightly said, it would keep floating across departments and we would not get any results.

Now that we have active participation and also have initial data and input from majority of you, Can we have a few owners and respective area of ownership, who can help in drafting the individual application's.

Regards
Seema

[ddamitav]

Hello,

Agreed with Seema, only thing can be exclude is about Express way as it does not come under HUDA. Rest is fine for me I am giving my mandate and signing off on the draft prepared by Seema.

Regards,

Amitav