India Right To Information

How much land does the Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) in the city owes? Does it have an audit report of its landholding and how much of it has been encroached upon by the land mafia? Shockingly, despite 63 years of existence, the NIT has no clue about its actual landholding as it never conducted its audit. This was revealed by NIT officials to an enquiry made under Right to Information Act (RTI) by social worker Jitendra Ghosekar. He filed a petition in public interest in the Bombay high court's Nagpur bench alleging that government land being unlawfully converted and used by private builders, land mafias and political leaders. In his petition, Ghosekar has claimed that not only the NIT, but Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and district collector as well have failed to conduct audit of their areas coming under their respective jurisdictions.

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