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Central Information Commission<\/div>\n
Lt. Col. S. C. Kalra vs Ministry Of Urban Development … on 12 August, 2008<\/div>\n
                         CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION\n                            Appeal No.CIC\/WB\/A\/2008\/00448 dated .2008\n                             Right to Information Act 2005 - Section 19\n\n\nAppellant        -          Lt. Col. S. C. Kalra\nRespondent           -      Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD)\n\n\nFacts<\/pre>\n
:\n<\/p>\n
     By an application of 30.3.07 Lt. Col. Subhash Chander Kalra (Rtd) of
\nFeroze Shah Kotla, New Delhi applied to the Ministry of Urban Development
\nseeking information on rehabilitation \/ resettlement of families displaced from
\nPakistan in 1947 in the form of 8 questions, as follows:\n<\/p>\n
         “Q1.   What steps were taken by the Govt. of India and Ministry\/
\n                Department of Rehabilitation, now part of your Ministry, for
\n                the final rehabilitation\/ resettlement of families displaced
\n                from Pakistan, on division of the country, and temporarily
\n                sheltered at Delhi.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         Q2.    In continuation to Q1 above was any land at Delhi placed
\n                under erstwhile Ministry\/ Department of Rehabilitation, for
\n                the final resettlement of such families?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         Q3.    In continuation to Q1 to Q2 above, do you have enough
\n                land, in conformity to DO letter No. 4 (7) 90 settlement dated
\n                7th June 1990. (Photocopy enclosed) of then Minister of
\n                State Home Shri Subodh Kant addressed to Shri L. K.
\n                Advani then Member of Parliament now Leader of the
\n                Opposition?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         Q4.    If the answer to Q3 above is in the negative then how and
\n                when will they be finally rehabilitated\/ resettled?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         Q5.    Does the DO letter No. 4(7) 90-settlement dated 7th June
\n                1990 of then Minister State Home, addressed to them M. P.
\n                Shri L. K. Advani, hold good for the final resettlement of
\n                displaced families residing at Vikram Nagar, Kotla Feroze
\n                Shah, New Delhi-110002?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         Q6.    If the answer to Q5 above is in the negative then what is the
\n                current decision?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
                                                   1<\/span><\/p>\n
        Q.7    In continuation to Q 6 above, if the matter is still under
\n              submission\/consideration \/ process with the Govt. or
\n              competent authority, then how long will it take to arrive at
\n              final decision?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
       Q.8.   If the answer to Q 5 above is in the positive then how long
\n              will the Govt. take to finally resettle the 50 families as two
\n              generations have already passed and third generation is on
\n              the way?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     To this he received a pointwise reply on 3.5.07 from Shri M. Roy
\nChoudhary, Dy. L&DO & PIO MOUD. Col. Kalra then moved another application
\nof 20.11.07 in which his request for information is concise and reads as follows:\n<\/p>\n
       “What is the plan of the Govt. for the final rehabilitation of refugees of
\n       1947 at Vikram Nagar, Feroze Shah Kotla, New Delhi-110002?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     This application, however, was transferred to the Archeological Survey of
\nIndia on 3.12.07 by Shri Surender Singh, Dy. L&DO. Upon this Col. Kalra moved
\nhis first appeal on 9.1.08 in which he has referred to his earlier application of
\n30.3.07 and the response given thereto, as follows:\n<\/p>\n
       “I am hereby also enclosing a photocopy of my petition dated 30th
\n       Mach, 2007 under RTI Act of 2005 forwarded to your PIO\/CPIO on
\n       30th March, 2007 along with the photocopy of his reply forwarded
\n       vide letter No. L&DO\/RP Cell\/RTI\/17\/07\/94 dated 3.5.2007, the
\n       reply at Q. 6 of your letter states quote “The current decision is to
\n       examine the feasibility of redefining the boundaries of Kotla Feroze
\n       Shah Monuments and subsequent change in the Master Plan to
\n       exclude the area on which the construction exists. This has been
\n       taken up with the Department of Culture.” Unquote. A photocopy of
\n       Unstarred Question No. 5524 dated 19th April 1990, raised by Shri
\n       M. S. Pal in the Lok Sabha with regard to this colony, and the reply
\n       of the then Minister of Home Affairs (Sh. Mufti Mohammed Sayeed)
\n       in Lok Sabha is enclosed which states, quote…..”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     The relief he has sought from the First Appellate Authority is summarized in
\nthe First Question of the Colonel’s first appeal as follows:\n<\/p>\n
       “Q.1. what is the Plan of the Government of India, is it to relocate
\n              the entire colony or shift fifty families occupying 62
\n              tenements or shift 20 tenements (A1 to A9 A and E1 to E11
\n              adjoining to boundary wall of the Kotla Feroze Shah<\/p>\n
                                          2<\/span>
\n                     Monument)?       If neither of the above is part of the
\n                    Government Plan then what is the plan for permanent
\n                    rehabilitation of refugees\/ their families residing at Vikram
\n                    Nagar, Feroze Shah Kotla, New Delhi-110002?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
          This appeal was duly received in the Ministry of Urban Development on
\n9.1.08.           In the meantime, in response to the application transferred to
\nArcheological Survey of India, the Superintending Archeologist and CPIO, ASI
\nhas reported to the DG, ASI, in his letter of 18.12.07, with a copy to appellant, as
\nfollows:\n<\/p>\n
           “I have the honour to inform that no such plan of the Archaeological
\n           Survey of India for government for final rehabilitation of refugees of
\n           1947 residing at Vikram Nagar, Feroze Shah Kotla, New Delhi is
\n           made available in this office.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
          The response to this first appeal had not been provided to appellant by
\n16.2.08 when he moved his second appeal before us with the following prayer1:\n<\/p>\n
           “(a)     I believe that the Dy. Land & Development Officer,
\n                    Ministry of Urban Development, Land & Development
\n                    Office, Nirman Bhawan, and New Delhi has given me a
\n                    misleading reply.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
           (ii)     The Land & Development Officer, Ministry of Urban
\n                    Development, Land & Development Office, Nirman
\n                    Bhawan, New Delhi has not responded to my petition of
\n                    First Appeal thus amounting to refusal of information.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
          In response to our appeal notice, we have received two letters of 24.4.08
\nand 14.7.08 from Shri Surender Singh, Dy. L&DO and CPIO, the gist of which is
\nthe same, in which CPIO Shri Surender Singh has contended as follows:\n<\/p>\n
           “This office has already furnished the information whatever is
\n           available with this office regarding plan of the Government of India
\n           for final rehabilitation of refugees of 1947, residing at Vikram Nagar,
\n           Feroze Shah Kotla, New Delhi-110002 vide this office letters dated
\n           3.5.2007 and 3.12.07. No more information in this regard is
\n           available with this office. This office has not given any misleading
\n           reply. Regarding point (ii), it is submitted that the Order of the first
\n           Appeal was also forwarded to him vide this office letter dated<\/p>\n
1<\/span>
\n    The numbering is not a typographical error. The prayer is so numbered in the appeal petition<\/p>\n
                                                       3<\/span>
\n       20.2.08. Thus, there is no fault of this office in providing the
\n      information to the applicant.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     He has also attached a copy of the order of the L&DO and First Appellate
\nAuthority of 15.2.08 on the first appeal of appellant Col. Kalra, in which he has
\ndecided as follows:\n<\/p>\n
      “The information regarding plan of the Government for permanent
\n      rehabilitation has been furnished on 3.5.2007 vide this office letter
\n      No. L&DO\/RPCell\/RTI\/17\/7\/99 against RTI Application dated
\n      30.3.2007. For the rest of the requests, the appellant shall apply
\n      afresh to the CPIO with regard to the questions or information
\n      sought now in the appeal, as these are fresh requests for additional
\n      information.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     Subsequently together with his letter of 14.7.08, Shri Surender Singh has
\nattached a more expanded response of 16.5.08 in which the entire question of
\nthe rehabilitation of refugees of 1947 temporarily settled at Vikram Nagar on the
\nFeroze Shah Kotla premises, has been discussed. This would indicate that the
\nmatter has continuously engaged Government since 1947 up to the level of
\nPrime Minister of India culminating in a decision of 8.6.1978 as follows:\n<\/p>\n
      (a)    “The Refugee colony may continue under lease
\n             arrangements for another 30 years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      (b)    House constructed within ’25’ of the ancient structures,
\n             boundary wall etc. should be shifted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      (c)    The height of the existing houses should not be raised
\n             beyond the present top of the fortification walls, so that
\n             skyline of the monument is not disturbed. The matter was
\n             reviewed on 24.11.1981 when it was decided to place the
\n             matter before the Cabinet for a decision. The Residents of
\n             Kotla Feroze Shah met the then Education Minister and
\n             reiterated that they should not be shifted from Kotla Feroze
\n             Shah and insisted that the ownership rights of the tenements
\n             which they were occupying since 1949 be transferred to
\n             them. On note moved by the Dep’t. of Culture in June 1985,
\n             it was decided to constitute a Group of Ministers to consider
\n             the matter further. The Group of Ministers noted the
\n             encroachments made by the residents. The Dep’t. of
\n             Culture put up a note to the Group of Ministers in May 1988.
\n             In June 1989 the proposal of Department of Cultures was
\n             approved as under:-\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
                                         4<\/span><\/p>\n
       (d)    Lt. Governor, Delhi had to do a complete layout of developed
\n             plots so as to accommodate 50 families (62 tenements) is an
\n             area adjacent to the monument outside the notified area. In
\n             the first instance 15 families (20 tenements) identified along
\n             the north wall in Block A&E shifted to this area. The
\n             allottees will construct their own house on the plots so
\n             allotted. The plots will be given free of cost to the allottees.
\n             The Ministry of Urban Development and DDA provide all
\n             assistance in giving them appropriate house building plans
\n             as well as loans from HUDCO. Archaeological Survey of
\n             India will take steps to protect the 25 strip along the north
\n             wall thus made available to them and also along the other
\n             walls as and when made available to them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      (e)    From 1994-96, MHA asked Dep’t. of Culture to intimate the
\n             details of land identified for shifting 15 families including the
\n             willingness of people to move out to the proposed site.
\n             There was no response from the Dep’t. of Culture. In
\n             January 2004 the Department of Culture submitted a Note
\n             but further progress thereon is not available with the L&DO.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     In this letter reference has also been made to correspondence between the
\nMoUD and Secretary, Dep’t. of Culture.\n<\/p>\n
The appeal was heard on 11.8.08. The following are present:\n<\/p>\n
      Appellant
\n            Lt. Col. S. C. Kalra, SM
\n      Respondents
\n            Shri Rajesh Kumar Sinha, L&DO \/ FAA
\n            Shri Pradeep Kumar Singh, Dy. L&DO<\/p>\n
     Appellant Col. Kalra submitted that he has been seeking information for
\nseveral years, having migrated from what is now Pakistan in 1947, but is still
\nseeking permanent resettlement and is not being provided answers by Govt.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
which is bent upon transferring his letter from one Department to another, each
\nof which deny that they hold the information.\n<\/p>\n
     Shri Rajesh Kumar Sinha L&DO has submitted that such information, as is
\npossessed by L&DO has been provided but the matter pertains to Dep’t. of
\nCulture, which has in other cases made arrangements of this kind.\n<\/p>\n
                                         5<\/span><\/p>\n
          In view of the above, it appears that this is simply a matter where no
\nDepartment is taking responsibility for an issue which, since it concerns
\nrehabilitation of refugees of 1947, is an issue of national importance and indeed,
\nwith the thirty years time frame given for residents to continue at Vikram Nagar
\nnow expiring, requires to be addressed with the utmost urgency.\n<\/p>\n
                                    DECISION NOTICE<\/p>\n
         In this matter the letter of Sec 2(j) RTI Act, 2005 defining the “right to
\ninformation” had been met and no Department can actually be held to have
\ndefaulted in providing information held by them to appellant Lt. Col. Kalra. The
\nquestion goes deeper, since this is a question of not only providing information
\nbut one of who should be holding this information which, as we have held, is an
\nissue of national importance which would normally have required priority by
\nGovernment, and has also been discussed at the highest levels of Government.\n<\/p>\n
         It is clear that the information sought by the appellant Col. Kalra is not held
\nby the Ministry of Urban Development whereas on the question of rehabilitation it
\nis not held by the Dep’t. of Culture. However, as per the decision of 8.6.1978,
\nquoted above, the following is of particular relevance:\n<\/p>\n
(d) Lt. Governor, Delhi had to do a complete layout of developed plots so as to
\n       accommodate 50 families (62 tenements) in an area adjacent to the
\n       monument outside the notified area2….. The Ministry of Urban Development
\n       and DDA provide all assistance in giving them appropriate house building
\n       plans as well as loans from HUDCO. Archaeological Survey of India will take
\n       steps to protect the 25′ strip along the North wall thus made available to them
\n       and also along the other walls as and when made available to them.\n<\/p>\n
2<\/span><\/p>\n
    Underlined by us for emphasis<\/p>\n
                                            6<\/span>
\n      From this, it is clear that the complete layout of the developed plots for the
\nrehabilitation of the Vikram Nagar was to be the responsibility of the Lt.
\nGovernor, Delhi. It is that office which must, therefore, deal with the question put
\nby appellant Lt. Col. S. C. Kalra on the final rehabilitation \/ resettlement of
\nfamilies displaced from Pakistan and settled in Vikram Nagar. It is only that
\npublic authority which can respond to such a question. Under the authority
\nvested in us u\/s 19(8)(a), we hereby direct the Lt. Governor, Delhi to take
\nimmediate steps as may be necessary to provide the information sought in his
\noriginal application of 30.3.07 to Lt. Col. Subhash Chander Kalra of Vikram
\nNagar, Feroze Shah Kotla, New Delhi. A copy of that application and responses
\nreceived by Col. Kalra are appended with this decision for ease of reference.\n<\/p>\n
     Because the request for information has not yet been presented to the
\noffice of Lt. Governor Delhi, the CPIO of his office will dispose off this application
\nwithin the period mandated for a fresh application u\/s 7(1) of the RTI Act.
\nReserved in the hearing, this decision is announced in open chamber on
\n12.8.2008.\n<\/p>\n
Notice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.\n<\/p>\n
(Wajahat Habibullah)
\nChief Information Commissioner
\n12.8.2008<\/p>\n
Authenticated true copy. Additional copies of orders shall be supplied against
\napplication and payment of the charges, prescribed under the Act, to the CPIO
\nof this Commission.\n<\/p>\n
(Pankaj Shreyaskar)
\nJoint Registrar
\n12.8.2008<\/p>\n
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