Bengaluru: Electronics City Industrial Town Authority (ELCITA) appointed a public information officer and two other officials for handling information requests through Right to Information Act, 2005. The move comes after Karnataka Information Commission (KIC) ruled in Jan that the body comes under the ambit of RTI.Aishwarya K has been appointed public information officer; Maham Kausar and Aniruddha N are assistant PIO and first appellate officer, respectively.The appointments were made after Karnataka Information Commisioner Rajashekhar S noted that the state govt has complete control — financial as well as administrative — over the authority, including the power to supersede it. Calling it a public authority, he noted the govt has only given power to ELCITA to collect property tax.The authority was initially managing the industrial area of Electronics City, taking charge of road maintenance, water supply, street lighting, sewage and waste disposal, transportation facilities and security. In 2013, the govt declared Electronics City as an industrial township area under Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964, leading to the formation of ELCITA.
