PSIC issued bailable warrant of Shri M.S. Jaggi, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana

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CC No. 827 of 2011

The Orders of the PSIC are as below:

On two consecutive dates, notice was issued to the Commissioner, Municipal Commissioner, Ludhiana to file a report or produce record as to whether‘ Sweepers’ (Safai Karamchari) working in the area of Tagore Nagar “A’ Welfare Society are employees of the Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana or they are employees of Tagore Nagar A Welfare Society. Information was further sought from the Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana as to who maintains the attendance record in respect of these sweepers and in case they are employees of the society whether the salary of these sweepers is reimbursed to the society and if so what procedure is being followed in this regard. Copies of the relevant instructions were also sought. The information on the above issues relates to the period from 1.1.2010 to 31.12.2010. However, none has appeared on behalf of the Corporation and no record has been produced before the Commission inspite of two consecutive opportunities. This Commission is, therefore, constrained to issue bailable warrant of Shri M.S.Jaggi, the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana in exercise of powers conferred on me under Section 18(3) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 read with the relevant provisions of the Civil Procedure Code with the direction that the Commissioner shall produce the relevant record and copies of the instructions issued on this subject before the Commission on the next date of hearing, which is fixed for 2.7.2012. Acopy of this order shall be endorsed to the Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana to serve the bailable warrant on the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation,Ludhiana.

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As reported by Raakhi Jagga in expressindia.com on 01 May 2012:
Warrant issued against MC Commissioner - Express India

Warrant issued against MC Commissioner

Ludhiana

M S Jaggi failed to provide data to state information panel regarding RTI query.

The State Information Commission (SIC) of Punjab has issued bailable warrants for MC Commissioner M S Jaggi, who failed to furnish information to the Commission regarding an RTI query. The order was issued on April 26 by state information commissioners Bidhi Chand Thakur, Jaspal Kaur and R I Singh.


The Commissioner has to appear before the bench on July 2, 2012, with the relevant records of the Municipal Corporation (MC) regarding civic body sweepers.


It needs to be mentioned that the SIC had sought details from the MC regarding the attendance record of sweepers who work in various parks and localities, following a complaint by H L Bhandari, a resident of Tagore Nagar A.


Bhandari, however, had sought details from the Tagore Nagar A Welfare society, asking for information on the sweepers who were working in the area and from where they were getting their salaries.


However, the Society had replied that the sweepers were not their employees. So the Commission had directly sought the details from the MC Commissioner


However, nobody provided any information and the Commissioner, on his part, failed to respond to the notices sent by the Commission as well.


Taking strict note of this, the Commission passed these orders. The Commission had sought details of the sweepers and their salary payment schedule from January to December 2010.


Apart from this, the State Information Commission has also directed Tagore Nagar A Welfare Society to produce the utilisation certificates of the funds received from the Local Bodies Department between January 1 and December 31, 2010.