The Delhi Development Authority has initiated five path-breaking steps to make implementation of the Right to Information Act more effective and minimise the inconvenience caused to the public in obtaining information about the status of their various applications and files.
What makes the RTI Act more meaningful in the case of DDA is that here it made the officials bring in some special mechanisms to provide more power to the masses.
Though there was some opposition to the move, it was in the end overcome.
A case in point was the appointment of 40 directors of DDA as designated Public Information Officers (PIOs). Though initially the appointment of so many officials was opposed and it was demanded that only one PIO be appointed through whom all the information should be routed, those in charge prevailed in having 40 directors involved so that the flow of information is fast and direct and there is no need to re-route it.
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