Money
Control: New Delhi: Thursday, 05 March 2015.
An
information seeker is allowed to submit a fee of Rs 10, towards cost of
information, via internet banking through SBI and its associated banks. People
can also use credit or debit cards of Master or Visa for payment of the fee, he
said. "But now RuPay card has also been included as the mode of payment.
Citizens can
use RuPay card for payment of fees to seek information under the Right to
Information (RTI) Act. "Applicants can now pay the prescribed RTI fee or
additional fee using their RuPay card also," an official in the Department
of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said. A portal www.rtionline.gov.in was
started in 2013 with an aim to help people exercise their right to seek
information through online medium.
An
information seeker is allowed to submit a fee of Rs 10, towards cost of
information, via internet banking through SBI and its associated banks. People
can also use credit or debit cards of Master or Visa for payment of the fee, he
said. "But now RuPay card has also been included as the mode of payment.
The facility
has been made operational recently," he said. RuPay -- coined from two
term, Rupee and Payment -- is an Indian version of credit or debit card. It has
been launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) with a
vision to allow all Indian banks and financial institutions in the country to
participate in electronic payments.
The Centre's
flagship Right to Information Act, which was enacted in 2005, mandates timely
response to citizen's request for government information. One has to pay a fee
of Rs 10 for seeking information. The portal also help an RTI applicant and
appellant to see the status of his application and appeal.
The Centre
has also started an online facility -- eIPO (electronic Indian Postal Order) --
for both Indian citizens and Non-Residential Indians to pay RTI fee to access
governance related information.
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