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Subject: Application For Information Under Right To Information Act 2005

The applicant Apoorv Shah submitted a Right to Information application to the SPIO requesting information regarding road maintenance and repairs in the Naranpura area of Ahmedabad over the past 15 years, including names of responsible officers, inspection reports, work orders, reasons for poor road conditions, complaints received, and planned restoration dates and penalties. The application included 16 specific information requests and offered to pay any additional applicable fees.

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Subject: Application For Information Under Right To Information Act 2005

The applicant Apoorv Shah submitted a Right to Information application to the SPIO requesting information regarding road maintenance and repairs in the Naranpura area of Ahmedabad over the past 15 years, including names of responsible officers, inspection reports, work orders, reasons for poor road conditions, complaints received, and planned restoration dates and penalties. The application included 16 specific information requests and offered to pay any additional applicable fees.

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To,

The SPIO,
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat.

From
Apoorv Shah
A-405 Vasupujya Appt,
Naranpura,
Ahmedabad- 380013

Subject: Application for Information under Right to Information Act 2005


I, Apoorv Shah, a citizen of India, request you to kindly provide me the following
information under the Right to Information Act, 2005:

1) Please inform me the Name, Designation , Address, Office Telephone number of the
Officer of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, who is responsible for the
maintenance of Roads located in Naranpura near St. Xaviers Loyola School of
Ahmedabad. I am particularly concerned about the road which goes from St. Kabir
School, Naranpura towards St. Xaviers Loyola Hall and towards Naranpura Bus Stand.

2) How often and with what frequency is the above mentioned officer supposed to carry out
inspection of the roads and check their condition?

3)
a) When was the last date and time when the officer carried out a inspection of the roads
located in Naranpura?
b) Please provide me with a certified copy of the Action Taken Report based on the
inspection report made by the officer after inspecting the roads in Naranpura area.

4) Please give a list of all the works related to improvement of roads and streets carried out
in this area during the period from 1995 to 2009.

5) How many times have repairs (both minor and major) been carried out on each road and
street in this area?

For each repair work, the list should contain:

a) The length of the street or the road repaired and identify the starting and the ending
point by house
b) Numbers or other methods (like a small hand drawn sketch)
c) Exact location of spots where the work was carried out
d) The name of the work
e) Work order no.
f) Length of repair
g) Average width of repair
h) Method of repair
i) What was the composition of repair
j) Actual date of start
k) Actual date of completion
l) Amount paid or payable
m) Status of work
n) Name of the contractor
o) Mode of improvement of that road or street

6) After you have prepared the above information, I would like to inspect your
measurement books and work order registers related to these works to ensure that you
have given complete information. Please let me know a date and time and the venue
where I can come for inspection.

7) The roads are totally broken these days. Please give specific reasons for the bad condition
of each of these roads separately in a table format stating Name of the road, starting and
ending point and the reason for poor condition.

8) If any of the roads is broken due to water stagnation on the road, please intimate whether
it is due to wrong design , wrong execution, poor quality material or due to clogged
drains or any other reason ?

9) If it is due to wrong design, wrong execution, poor quality materials, how was the
payment passed?

10) What action will be taken against the engineer who inspected the road and let it pass like
this?

11) If it is due to clogged drain, please provide the following information from the concerned
department which dealt with it:
a) When were these drains cleaned during the stated period?
b) Give copy of the measurement book of the cleaning carried out?
c) Provide the names of the officials who inspected and passed the payments. This
means that these officials did not do their job properly. Their inaction has caused so
much loss to the exchequer and so much inconvenience to the public. They are also
guilty of criminal misconduct under section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of corruption
Act.
d) By when will action be taken against them and what action will you take?

12) The fact that these roads have broken shows that very bad material has been used in the
roads.
a. What enquiries will be made to ascertain the quality of the roads?
b. How will you fix responsibilities?
c. By when the enquiries will be completed?

13) The payments seem to have been done fraudulently and the inspection carried out by the
engineers was faulty. What enquiries will be instituted against the engineers who passed
the payments and did faulty inspection?
14) How many written or verbal complaints has the Ahmedabad Municipal
Council/Corporation received regarding the poor conditions of Roads in the Naranpura
Area?
Please give me the following information about each of the complaints:
a) Date of complaint
b) Daily progress of the complaint received
c) Action taken on the complaint received
d) Date of reply given to the complainant and a gist of the reply
15) By what date can the citizens living in Naranpura area expect the roads to be restored to
their
original conditions and be made fit for normal driving ?

16) If the roads are not restored to their original conditions by the date indicated in Item 19
above, what action will be taken and what penalties will be levied by
Council/Corporation against the officers/ contractors/ agencies which do not restore the
road on time?

I am attaching the receipt of the payment of application fees for this RTI Application. I
am willing to pay any further charges as decided by the PIO and communicated to me
with a reasoned written order, giving detailed calculations for arriving at the additional
charges so requested by the PIO.

Thanking You
Apoorv Shah

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