Afternoon Voice: New Delhi: Thursday, September 21, 2017.
It refers to
welcome initiative of Central Information Commission when it has now
administratively taken up matter of the issue of RTI stamps or numbered RTI
coupons as mode of payment under RTI Act by writing to Secretary, Department of
Personnel and Training (DoPT) reminding DoPT of several CIC-verdicts making recommendations
in this regard. According to an RTI response, Department of Posts used to spend
Rs 37.45 as operational cost for handling a postal-order in the year 2011-12
which must have shot up further by now.
At the same
time post-free acceptance of RTI applications addressed to central
public-authorities which is presently available only at about 4500
post-offices, should be extended to all about 160000 post-offices in the
country. It is not impractical because post-bag carrying registered
mail-articles, currency and other revenue-items sent from even smallest
post-office to Head post-office can carry post-free RTI applications also.
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