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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Inform RTI applicants about additional fees: DoPT tells departments

Inform RTI applicants about additional fees: DoPT tells departments

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published Published on Feb 13, 2013   modified Modified on Feb 13, 2013
-PTI

The Centre has asked all departments under it to ensure that RTI applicants are informed in time about payment of additional fees as photocopying charges and others.

The directive came after the Central Information Commission (CIC) approached the Department of Personnel and Training, a nodal department for implementation of the transparency law, with complaints from various RTI applicants.

It has been brought to the notice of CIC that some Central Public Information Officers (CPIOs), who act as nodal officers in government departments for providing information under transparency law, were informing applicants of the charges at the fag end of the 30 days period prescribed for providing the information under RTI.

"The Central Information Commission in one of its orders has mentioned that while there cannot be any hard and fast rule about when exactly the intimation about the photocopying charges should be conveyed to the information seeker.

"It is implied in the prescribed time limit that the demand for photocopying charges must be made soon after the RTI application is received so that the information seeker has time to deposit the fees and receives information within the prescribed 30 days period," the DoPT said in an official memorandum issued to all central government ministries and chief secretaries of state governments.

If the information sought is not voluminous or is not dispersed over a large number of files, computation of the photocopying charges should not be a time consuming task, it said.

"As soon as the RTI application is received, the holder of the information should decide about how much information to disclose and then calculate the photocopying charges so that the CPIO can immediately write to the information seeker demanding such fees," it said.

The RTI Act mandates disclosures of information on most matters related to governance.

According to Section 7 (3) (a) of the Act, a CPIO should intimate an information seeker about the details of further fees representing the cost of providing the information, together with the calculations made to arrive at the amount.

The Economic Times, 12 February, 2013, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/inform-rti-applicants-about-additional-fees-dopt-tells-departments/articleshow/18463568.cms


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