Re: [HumJanenge] Cabinet note not secret: Info panel

Making the fees common across the country is UNREASONABLE.and also beyond the power of Central Govt to legislate for States --- till such time as the money collected does not go into the Central exchequer. If the money is collected by and used by the State Govt to defray its costs then only the State Govt can prescribe the fees.
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FYI teh Allahabad High Court at one point was charging Rs.500 application fee and Rs 50 as copying charge per page. Hapless applicants were getting ZERO information out of the court despite paying such fees.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:35 PM, SHASHI KUMAR.A.R. <rudreshtechnology@gmail.com> wrote:

The Central government should see that the  fee charged per page should be uniform throughout the country including courts , In karnataka Courts are charging Rs.3/- Per Page for A4 Size , But if  a person applies under court rules the fee charged is Rs.1/- But in this case only litigants pertaining to a case only can obtain by paying Rs.1/- Per page , States area making several rules to make rti act useless and to discourage the applicants 

ARS KUMAR 

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Guptaji

1) Haryana Govt charges Rs. 50 possibly because Delhi High Court (and some other High Courts) also charges Rs. 50 as application fee.

2) For many years since 2002 under Delhi RTI Act the application fee was Rs.25 and Rs.5 per page was photocopying charge. Not a single RTI activist like Arvind Kejriwal , Manish Sisiodia etc who used DRTI extensively then ever complained. Today after 9 years surely  Rs. 50 and Rs.10 respectively is justified by inflation even assuming a WPI of 6% each year.

Sarbajit

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:47 PM, M.K. Gupta <mkgupta100@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Here, Rs. 10/- per page for a photocopy is unreasonable.  Every body will agree to this but what remedial steps should be taken.   Haryana govt. takes Rs. 50/- are RTI fee. Some state charge fee even for first appeal.    Apparently, these tacts have been employed to discourage the applicants.   Sarbajit ji, let all of us mull over it and find out some way. --- On Wed, 4/5/11, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote: From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Cabinet note not secret: Info panel To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, 4 May, 2011, 2:02 PM States cannot amend the RTI Act - it is a Central Act of Parliament. The variation in fees for photocopying charges is by the provision that each State Govt can prescribe these fees. The CORE TEST (from the Act) is that these fees must be REASONABLE. Sarbajit On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Baritlum Ama <baritlumama@gmail.com> wrote: Since each state has got its own prerogative to amend the Act,so the government has increased the fee of the document from Rs,2/= to Rs.10/= per page.The exorbhitant increase in the price of the fee has deterred most of the activists in seeking the formation.Please guide us how to repeal the Notification of the Govt. Thanks On 5/3/11, M.K. Gupta <mkgupta100@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Cabinet note not secret: Info panel > Maha Watchdog Overrules itself. > > MUMBAI: A cabinet note on the basis of which a council of minister takes a > decision and subsequently passes a government > resolution is not confidential and anyone can have access to a copy of it > under the RTI Act. > The verdict was passed on Friday by a full bench of the Maharashtra > information commission, presided over by chief information commissioner > Vilas Patil. The new decree overrules Vikas Patil's predecessor Suresh > Joshi's ruling in 2006 that said a cabinet note was a confidential document > and a citizen could not get access to it by applying under the Right To > Information Act. > The latest decision was arrived at after a much deliberation, with Vilas > Patil, his Aurungabad counterpart D B Deshpande, Amravati information > commissioner Bhaskar Patil and Nagpur information chief P W Patil > maintaining that the note should not be kept secret. However, Navi Mumbai > info chief Navinkumar and his Nashik counterpart M H Shah tried to argue it > should not be made public. > The view of the majority prevailed and it was decided that an RTI applicant > is eligible to obtain a copy of the cabinet note, an official told TOI on > Saturday. > The issue was raised after a resident, Archana Gawda, in 2007, filed a query > under the RTI Act, seeking a copy of the cabinet note of the repeal of the > Urban Land Ceiling Act and the states decision on the proposal. The general > administration department, however, refused to send her a copy saying, > according to the rules of business and provisions of the RTI Act, a cabinet > note was confidential and hence out of RTI purview.