RTI activists to move HC for vacating stay on airport info

Hyderabad: Citizens seeking information about the functioning of Bangalore airport can go right ahead and shoot their questions under the Right to Information Act (RTI). But that's not possible in Hyderabad, Delhi or Mumbai with the airport operators in all these places having obtained a "stay" from their respective high courts on orders from the Information Commissions of the states stating that airport operators fall under the purview of the RTI. The Karnataka High Court had however confirmed the orders of the Information Commission of the state.
The stay in the case of Hyderabad airport has been in operation since last September when the management had moved the AP High Court. But now RTI activists in the city have decided to move the AP High Court seeking to vacate a stay on the case. "We have decided to approach the High Court to vacate the case at the earliest," said Umesh Varma and Rakesh Reddy Dubbudu of United Forum for RTI Activists.
The AP Information Commission had — last September — declared the airport company running the show to be a public authority as it had a 26 per cent government stake, with 13 per cent equity held by the AP government and another 13 per cent stake by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). But the airport operator, GMR, filed a writ petition in September last year challenging the decision.
17/05/10 Saswati Mukherjee/Times of India

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Categories: Airports May 2010