PIB: New Delhi: Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
Chief
Election Commissioner Sh. O.P. Rawat, Election Commissioners Sh. Sunil Arora
and Shri Ashok Lavasa today launched the online RTI Portal of Election
Commission of India.
The online
portal will facilitate applicants seeking information under the Right to
Information Act. The portal can be
accessed by general public on the Home Page of the Commission’s website
`eci.nic.in’ by clicking on `Online RTI’.
There is also online payment gateway for making payment of requisite
fees under the RTI Act. The portal also
facilitates online reply to applications and also for making first appeal and
reply thereto. There will be timely
notification alerts to RTI applicant via SMS and E-Mail.
Applicants
seeking information from the Commission under the RTI Act can make use of the online portal. The offline mode of applications will also
simultaneously continue.
The online
RTI applications made in the past in the Portal of DOPT were downloaded and all
such applications barring a few have been disposed of by giving suitable reply
to the applicants. The remaining
applications and First Appeals will be disposed of shortly.
The website
of online RTI Portal of Election Commission of India is http://rti.eci.nic.in.