RTI Payment can be made by Postal Orders
THE Department of Personnel & Training, GOI, clarifies that the Right to information (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005 provide that a person seeking information under the RTI Act, 2005 can make payment of fee for obtaining information by cash or demand draft or banker's cheque or Indian Postal Order.
It has been brought to the notice of the Department that some public authorities do not accept fee through the Indian Postal Orders.
It is reiterated that one of the approved modes of payment of fee under the Rules is through Indian Postal Order. Refusal to accept fee through the IPO may be treated as refusal to accept the application. It may result into imposition of penalty by the Central Information Commission on the concerned Central Public Information Officer under Section 20 of the Act. All the public authorities should, therefore, ensure that payment of fee by IPO is not denied.
DOPT F No. -lR , Dated : April 26, 2011