Simple RTI question gets outrageous answers

AHMEDABAD: Think again if you believed that the Right to Information (RTI) Act could be a quick-fix solution to the traffic woes in your area. As enforcement of a no-entry' rule can get you limited success of at least getting signboards put up, that too after a two year wait.
That's the time it took this issue to reach the Gujarat Information Commission (GIC).Which in turn noted "the boards were fitted displaying the notification after the appeal, and to that extent RTI can claim a measure of success".
In September 2007, Chhagan Dhaduk of Jetpur filed an RTI application with the local police station, demanding accountability on enforcement of a notification issued for regulation of traffic. The issue being that despite an area having been declared as prohibited during certain time of the day, vehicles were violating the rule with impunity.
Can vehicles such as buses of travel operators, trucks and other vehicles be allowed to park on a no entry road? Can these trucks be allowed to load and unload goods there, Dhaduk wanted to know.
He must have thought that simple questions would get simple answers, along with the norms beginning to get enforced. But instead he had to face outrageous replies.
After the notification was issued for regulating traffic, within how many days were the signboards required to be put up. And how many such signboards were required to be put up, Dhaduk wanted to know.
The public information officer replied that there was no mention in the notification of a time limit stipulating within how many days signboards were required to be put up. Also it was not specified who was required to put them up.
On Dhaduk's query of how many vehicles were found to be violating the no entry' zone and what action was taken against the offenders, the PIO replied that as no vehicles were seen' in the prohibited area, no action was taken against the violators!
Two years later, before the GIC in March, the superintendent of police submitted that instructions had been issued for displaying a readable copy of the notification in public spaces. Also for putting up the required signboards, an action taken report was also submitted.