mohali punjab state information commissioner has ordered gmada public information officercumsuperintending engineer hs sodhi to appear before the punjab state information commission psic on june 18 for delaying to give information on the muchtalked about paying guest pg issueps virdi chairman coordination committee of residents mohali had sought specific information regarding pgs being run from residential areas on october 13 2008 however only a small part of the information was shared and that too after much delay following this state information commissioner pk grover has directed gmada public information officer to appear before the commission on june 18 2009taking serious note of inordinate delay in supplying requisite information the commissioner directed gmada to supply requisite information by june 15 2009 having representations from various residential welfare associations rwas of mohali the coordination committee was formed in order to shift the pg business from residential areasmeanwhile finance secretary of coordination committee jarnail singh kranti stated that on october 13 the committee had sought information under the right to information act 2005 on eight issues related to the pg matter besides this gmada was asked about the validity to formulate a policy on august 24 2007 which allowed paying guests to stay in residential areas despite the fact that commercial activities are prohibited in residential areas as per the puda act 1995apart from this information was also sought regarding action taken against field staff officials who had failed to report gmada authorities regarding the presence of pgs in their respective residential areas in a related information provided by gmada vide in its letter on june 4 2009 it was informed that only one allotee gurmeet singh had been allowed to keep paying guests at his kothi number 1111 sector 70 and no other pg facility was being run without the permission of gmada