The Asian Age: New Delhi: Tuesday,
February 21, 2017.
Filing pleas
under the Right to Information Act will just be a click away for Delhiites with
the city government planning to bring a new policy under which the citizens
would be able to file their applications online.
Officials
said that the online process will save the applicants from hassles of
purchasing postal order and paying for the application through demand draft.
The procedure
will not only make it possible for the citizens to track their applications
online, but they will also be able to make payments online through various
modes including credit card, debit card, or net banking.
Though the
proposal to file the Right to Information (RTI) applications online was
prepared long back, it had been put on the backburner. Now, about a
year-and-a-half later, the government’s IT department has completed the
modalities for the project with the help of some external agencies. Officials
said that a separate portal has been created for online RTI applications, which
will be linked with the Delhi government’s website.
The applicant
will have to provide the details of the information sought under the RTI plea
with the mandatory details such as name, phone number, address, email id. After
providing the details, the portal will facilitate online payment of Rs 10 for
filing an RTI plea.
The portal
will provide the online gateway on the lines of the e-commerce platform through
which the applicants will be able to pay the fee using credit card, debit card,
or net banking. Sources said that the trial runs for the portal have been
conducted in the last three months and it is awaiting the city government’s nod
for the launch. Before launching the portal, the officials associated with the
RTI cell of various Delhi government departments will be provided training and
some concerned officials also have been trained. According to sources, all the
technical preparations have been completed for the online facility.
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