In December, TYM News filed a Right to Information request asking a municipal corporation how it had spent funds earmarked for a youth-employment scheme launched with considerable fanfare the previous year.
The law requires a response within 30 days. We are now well past twice that window.
The timeline
- Day 0 — Application filed and fee paid, acknowledgement received.
- Day 32 — No response. First reminder sent to the Public Information Officer.
- Day 65 — Second reminder. Office confirms the request was "received" but offers no timeline.
- Day 120+ — We are now preparing a first appeal to the relevant appellate authority.
This isn't a dramatic story of corruption uncovered — yet. It's a more ordinary one about how accountability mechanisms quietly stall when nobody outside the process is watching. That's exactly why we're documenting it in public, step by step, instead of waiting for a tidy ending.
We'll publish the appeal outcome as soon as we have it.