The officials of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) appear to be aloof and oblivious of the developments in their own wing. In a fresh instance, which exposes the callous attitude of the officials towards the public funds, the authorities had given vague answers to an RTI query which sought specific information from the Infrastructure Development Body.
The question was related to the details of exact number of land owners affected by prestigious Outer Ring Road (ORR) Project, which has reached the completion stage. In response, the officials did not bother about giving the exact details and confined themselves to vague answers.
They said that ‘an approximate’ 13,476 land owners were affected by the project. The officials failed to give the exact number as they are clueless about it. Surprisingly, the officials also did not have the exact number of the land owners they had compensated so far. The HMDA officials in their RTI reply stated that of the total 13,476 land owners affected, ‘an approximate’ 12,034 were compensated so far.
