PUBLIC AUTHORITY AS PER RTI ACT

ABDUL RUB.E. (Querist) 12 December 2009 This query is : Resolved
THE COCHIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY IN KERALA STATESAYING THAT THEY ARE NOT COMING UNDER RTI ACT EVEN IF THE KERALA GOVERNEMNT POSSESSING 26% SHARE HOLDING AND THE CHIEF MINISTER OF THE KERALA IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SAME. AND THEY ARE CLAMING THAT THEY ARE NOT A PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKING.BEING A COMPANY IT IS FULLY EMPOWERED TO ACT OF ITS OWN IN ALL MATTERS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER CITIZEN. AND WITH OUT THE PERMISSION OF KERALA GOVT. OF KERALA AND AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA THEY STARTED TO COLLECT USERS FEE FROM 14 OF APRIL 2005 AS PER THE DECISION OF ITS DIRECTOR BOARD.

THEY ARE CLAIMING THAT AS PER THE INDIAN AIRCAFT ACT AND AS PER THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA ACT AN AIR PORT ESPECIALLY IN PRIVATE SECTOR IS FREE TO FIX AND COMETENT TO COLLECT NON- AERONOTICAL CHARGES OF ITS OWN. BUT THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA INFORMED THAT THIS COLLECTION WAS NOT WITH THEIR AUTHORITY.

RECENTLY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT OF KERALA GIVE INFORMATION UNDER RTI THAT THE COCHIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHOPRITY WIL COME UNDER NATIONAL RTI ACT-2005 AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT1986. BUT WHEN A PASSENGER WAS HRASSED IN THE COCHIN AIRPORT BY DELIBERATELY COLLETING HIS ORIGINAL VISA TO KUWAIT AND EMBARKED HIM TO KUWAIT. BUT THEI KUWAIT AUTHORITY DEPORTED HIM BECAUSE OF HTA HE CAN NOT PRODUCE THE ORIGINAL VISA. REGADING THIS WHEN HE MADE AN RTI APPLICATION SEEKING THE INFORMATION AND THE COPY OF THE RECORDINGS OF THE SECURITY CAMERA ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY IN CD. THE TRANSPROT PIO INFORMED HIM THAT CIAL IS NOT COME UNDER RTI ACT. AND CAN NOT PROVIDE THE INFORMATION. PLS LET US KNOW THAT HOW CAN WE DEAL WITH THIS DISGUISED AND CONFUSED INFORMATION OF GOVT PIO AND ILLEGAL ACTION OF CIAL.

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