HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation GHMC ) receives around 30 RTI applications every day, of which over nine alone pertain to road-related issues, which are largely handled by the maintenance department, town planning department and the land acquisition wing.While the maintenance department takes care of the maintenance of roads and pavements as well as re-carpeting and strengthening of main roads and bylanes, the town planning department is responsible for removal of encroachments on the roads to ensure seamless flow of traffic.“Every day, on an average, we receive 8-10 road-related RTI queries on issues like road cutting, encroachments, money spent on development of roads and the like. Apart from queries pertaining to maintenance and town planning departments, a lot of people also enquire about land acquisition,“ said aGHMC official.Enquires revealed that though the maintenance department promptly replies to RTI applications by proving all the information sought, including details of the money spent on various roads, several applicants were not satisfied with the manner in which public money is being utilized by the civic departments on improvement of road infrastructure in the city.One such applicant is Ganji Srinivasa Rao , who sought details of road cutting and restoration charges collected from those digging up roads during the year 2015-16 and 2016-17.“The maintenance wing has furnished all the details promptly but I feel the money was not properly used for developing roads,“ said G Srinivas Rao, a senior RTI activist from the city. Though over Rs 300 crore amount have been deposited in two years by different