F.
No.12/31/2013-IR
Government
of India
Ministry
of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department
of Personnel & Training
North
Block, New Delhi - 110001
Dated :
11.2.2013
OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
Subject:
Timely intimation about payment of additional fee under RTI Act
2005.
It
has been brought to the 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
inti ation about the
photocopying charges should be conveyed to the
infor ation seeker, it is
implied in the prescribed time limit that the demand
for t e photocopying charges
must be made soon after the RTI application is
received so that the
information seeker has time to deposit the fees and
rec ive the information within
the prescribed thirty days period. If the
information sought is not
voluminous or is not dispersed over a large number
of fiilens , computation of the
photocopying charges should not be a time
con uming task. As soon as the
RTI application is received, the holder of the
infor ation 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.
(Sandeep Jain)
Deputy
Secretary
1. All the Ministries I Departments of
the Government of India
2. Union Public Service Commission,
Lok Sabha Sectt, Rajya Sabha
Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat,
Central Vigilance Commission,
President's Secretariat,
Vice-President's Secretariat, Prime Minister's Office,
Planning Commission, Election
Commission.
3. Central Information
Commission/State Information Commissions.
4. Staff Selection Commission, CGO
Complex, New Delhi
5. O/o the Comptroller & Auditor
General of India, 10, Bahadur Shah Zafar
Marg, New Delhi.
6. All officers/Desks/Sections,
DOP&T and Department of Pension &
Pensioners Welfare.
Copy to :- Chief Secretaries of All the States/UTs
