Wednesday 4 May 2016

Kejri government stuck in the Web of bureaucracy

It appears that, Arvind Kejriwal, who rode to power on his claims of providing a transparent, clean and rule of common man, has itself got stuck in the vicious Web of the bureaucracy. Anil Galgali, who was denied information on the expenses of advertisements by the Delhi government and instead told to personally visit Delhi and inspect the files, had written a letter to CM Arvind Kejriwal asking for intervention. Instead of acting and issuing directions, the letter of Galgali was forwarded to the OSD of the Dy CM Manish Sisodiya by the Rajeev Gupta ,OSD of the CM. Furthermore the GK Madhav, OSD of the Dy CM forwarded the letter to the Information and Broadcasting department, thereby shirking of the responsibility of taking action. Following the series of the advertorials in almost all the dailies in the Mumbai city in the month of February, Anil Galgali had filed an RTI with Delhi government seeking details of expenditure incurred in the giving through ads on 8 March 2016. After Anil Galgali filed query, his application was forwarded by Rajeev Kumar, Dy Director of Directorate of Information and Publicity to three departments ie Shabdarth, Advt and Field Publicity. Interesting that non of the three departments gave him reply. Replying to Galgali query on March 17, 2016, Directorate of Information and Publicity of Delhi Government MC Mourya said that Applicant may be requested to inspect the information available on the records in the files of the FP (field Publicity) unit, so that the desired information can be provided on the payment of prescribed fee. While Shabdarth department, a new departmenton April 4, 2016 replied that Shabdarth issues the advertisements on the basis of order given by the Directorate of Information and Publicity Department and further said that information asked was not related with this department. Finally, on April 13, 2016, Directorate of Information and Publicity Department's Advertise Section Public Information Officer Nalin Chouhan replied to the Galgali query saying that desired information asked by the applicant was not available with the office, however, applicant can personally inspect the documents. Terming these replies as a nefarious attempt to hide the splurged money of Aam Aadmi. Galgali alleged that The motive of this government is very much clear that it does not wish to share the common tax payers money spent of advertisement. Galgali further added that Spending money upto certain limits with the periphery of NCR was a bit Ok. But this government nonsensically splurged money across all the major cities of the country, that I wanted to know. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejariwal seems to suffer from a mis-coordination of sorts when it comes to keep a track of its own expenditure. Anil Galgali has sent an email to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to upload all the information related at the website immediately. It has now been understood that the Delhi government is neither providing information on the query filed by Anil Galgali nor the CM Arvind Kejriwal and Dy CM Manish Sisodiya are taking action against the Information and Broadcasting department for not providing information. Apart from this, some worker's of Aam Admi Party are circulating vague figures of expenses on advertisements on Twitter and other social media. On the issue Anil Galgali stated that, the Kejriwal government in Delhi should publish the information of the expenses incurred on the advertisement of the government in Delhi and outside Delhi on its website and should also declare if they had taken the opinion of the common man on incurring such expenses

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