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Patna,(BiharTimes): When a retired journalist, a couple of months back, wrote his personal experience of the nine-hour long ordeal during the chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Darbar many in the media and outside dubbed it as an exaggeration.
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Now it has come out that the situation if far more serious. Less than 10 per cent of complaints received at chief minister Nitish Kumar’s weekly Janata Ke Durbar Mein Mukhyamantri in the last two and a half years have been disposed of––just 16,000 out of the 1.68 lakh.
This is the official version. The remaining applications are lying in various government departments.
As per the information sought by RTI activist, Shiv Prakash Rai of Buxar, in all 2,40,731 applications were submitted to the CM from April 20, 2006 till May 23, 2011. Since there was no such provision of keeping a record of such applications till 2008, there was no information about what happened to the 72,191 applications submitted till December 31, 2008.
In all 29,672 people turned up with written applications in 2006, just 14,646 in 2007, 27,873 in 2008 and 45,784 in 2009––this notwithstanding the fact that Lok Sabha election was held in April-May.
In 2010 Janata Darbar could not be organized for four months due to Assembly election. Yet, the year saw a total of 67,897 people complaining to the chief minister. In the first five months of the current year 54,859 applications were received.
According to the Public Information Officer of the Chief Minister Secretariat since the applications are transferred to the departments concerned, the latest information about their status could be availed only from the departments concerned.
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