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Min of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
No. 12/31/2013-IR dated 11-2-1013
Subject: Timely intimation about payment of additional fee
under RTI Act 2005
It has been brought to the n notice
of the Central Information Commission that some CPIOs inform the information
seeker about the additional fee under sub section 7(3) of the RTI Act at the
fag end of the thirty days period prescribed for providing the information
under sub-section 7(1) of the RTI Act.
2. 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 the photocopying
charges must be made soon after the RTI application is received so that
the information seeker has time to deposit the fees and received the
information within the prescribed thirty days period. 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. 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.
3. This may be
brought to the notice of all concerned for compliance.
Sd/-
(Sandeep Jain)
Deputy Seretary
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