Ludhiana: Municipal Corporation has uploaded important information about city colonies that are authorized and illegal on their official website, but language barriers to inhibit people from understanding it.
Some information in Punjabi fonts that cannot be read for devices that have no font.
A RTI activist claimed that officials did this intentionally, so the actual information did not reach the masses.
Recently, the state government has requested MC officials about the legal and illegal colonies of the city.
A report is prepared and uploaded on the MC website.
It contains information about the official and new and old colonies that have been transferred to the Civic Agency through the trust of increasing Ludhiana (LIT) and the authority of the larger Ludhiana area (GLADA) and MC city planning schemes.
Details about illegal colonies have also been mentioned together with their current status, namely, whether their developers have submitted a re-appointment and completed the process.
An official said information was destroyed from all four zones and a list of zones uploaded.
Some prepare it in English and some in Punjabi and people who upload data do not pay attention to the fonts needed.
Only scanned documents can also be uploaded to avoid confusion, he added.
RTI Activists Kuldeep Khaira, who have struggled against illegal colonies, said, “It is good that officials bring information in the public domain so that people can have knowledge before including the money obtained with difficulty.
But what’s the point if people can’t read it.
This has been Deliberately done, because they did not want to share anything with people.
Gladada has uploaded a list of colonies on its website during the past years, and there are no font or language problems.
“Anoop Kumar, a resident of Haibowal, said,” People don’t have time to download the font first and then check the information.
The authorities can at least upload fonts along with information.
“Despite recurring efforts, Senior Senior Planner Bindra City cannot be contacted for comments.