TRUSTS UNDER THE OFFICIAL TRUSTEE, WEST BENGAL
TO,
THE OFFICIAL TRUSTEE
GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL
10TH FLOOR
1, KIRON SANKAR ROY ROAD
CALCUTTA 700001
Dear Sir,
REQUEST UNDER RTI ACT.
The following information is requested from your office under RTI ACT.
1. A list of all the Trusts/Estates/Wills vested in/Managed/Administered by the Official Trustee Office.
2. A list of all the Estates/properties vested in/owned by/managed and/or in any way connected with the Official Trustee/Administrator General.
3. A list of properties leased or sold by the Official Trustee in the last thirty years.
4. A list of all tenants/lessees and/or all persons/companies/legal entities of the estates/properties owned by/vested in/managed by your office.
5. A table showing the monthly rent/yearly rent/lease rent payable by every one of your tenants/lessees and a list of defaulters.
6. Please inform me whether any audit has been done of all the Estates/Trusts/Wills vested in/Managed/Administered by the Official Trustee Office. Please provide a copy of the audit reports from April 1, 1980 to March 31, 2011.
Your compliance with the RTI Act is sought as expeditiously as possible.
We have edited this RTI Application to make it better. We will File it soon.
To:
The State Public Information Officer,
Judicial Department, Government of West Bengal,
Writers Buildings, Kolkata – 700001
Subject: Request for Information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please provide the following information about under the Right to Information (RTI) Act:
1. A list of all the Trusts/Estates/Wills vested in/Managed/Administered by the Official Trustee Office.
2. A list of all the Estates/properties vested in/owned by/managed and/or in any way connected with the Official Trustee/Administrator General.
3. A list of properties leased or sold by the Official Trustee in the last thirty years.
4. A list of all tenants/lessees and/or all persons/companies/legal entities of the estates/properties owned by/vested in/managed by the Official Trustee Office.
5. A table showing the monthly rent/yearly rent/lease rent payable by every one of the aforesaid tenants/lessees and a list of defaulters on the aforesaid the monthly rent/yearly rent/lease rent.
6. Please inform me whether any audit has been done of all the Estates/Trusts/Wills vested in/Managed/Administered by the Official Trustee Office. Please provide a copy of the audit reports from April 1, 1980 to March 31, 2011.
We have filed this RTI Application.Speed Post Consignment Number:
EW922413935IN
We will inform you as soon as we get a reply.
What has happened to this RTI request ? There has been no reply, which is unlawful. So what do you intend to do next ?
This RTI Application was rejected by the PIO saying that “this Deptt is not concerned authority of the said matter.”
He is required to transfer..
But SIC/CIC cannot guarantee an strict action for such rejections..
Only way is to file a first appeal, saying that this is related to your department..
In Parallel, you can file a complain with SIC/CIC. sometimes complaint against such issues works out.
Of course, they will say this. It is expected. This is a deptt. of dalals for promoters. This deptt managed over ONE THOUSAND ESTATES mainly belonging to Christians, Jews, Parsees and Armenians. They manage over ten thousand properties in Calcutta and all over West Bengal. I did not think they would reply at all. So therefore, come on RTIA, here is a very BIG FISH to catch. Maybe we can put aside the little fish and catch this BIG ONE. Lets do it.
What is the status of this application now ?
We got a very vague reply from them, and as we earlier experienced the SIC of West Bengal isnt a very strict person so filing an appeal would also not give us the answers. As, we found ourselves hopeless on this RTI we failed to take any action.