Right to information Act (RTI Act)

What is RTI ? Every citizen has a right to know how the Government is functioning. Right to Information empowers every citizen to seek any information from the Government.

RTI 2005 - The Right to Information Act The Right to Information Act 2005 or RTI 2005, came into force in order to encourage a corruption free, transparent and accountable form of government in which the citizens feel a sense of power and safety. India is a democratic nation and in order to encourage true democracy, every Indian citizen can demand certain information from the Government if desired. This is the motto of RTI 2005: to grant freedom to the people in order to seek information from the Government. RTI 2005 is applicable to all states of India except for Jammu and Kashmir. More About RTI 2005: Under the act, a citizen can demand from any public or government authority any information (as long as it does not pertain to national security and defence or some personal information) and the authority is supposed to respond within a period of 30 days to the application. Also, every government / public authority is supposed to computerize their records for wide distrib...

There is no separate format for RTI Letter. The letter should be on a white paper with details of applicant addressed to the Public Information officer of the respective office. The Fee of Rs.10 should be submitted by way of Postal order / DD/ drawn in favour of the office and if you need copies of any documents from the office, a fee of Rs.2 per page should also be submitted to the office. If you are not sure about the no of pages of documents, you can ask the same in the letter how much it costs. You will get a reply as to that. Accordingly, you can make the payment for the copies of documents.

Date:   ……….. Place:   ……………. From, ………….. ……………………….. To The Public Information Officer ……………. Letter under Sec.6 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 Under the provisions of Right to information Act, We wish to seek the following information from your office: 1.       A 2.       B 3.       C A postal order for Rs.10/- is sent herewith towards fee as per the provisions of Right to information Act, 2005. You are requested to provide the required information at the earliest. Thanking you, Yours faithfully ………………….. Encl: Postal order for Rs.10