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Cost of Providing information to the applicants

Cost of Providing information to the applicants

Fees for providing information As per the Right to Information Rules, 2012, the cost for providing information will be charged as under :

Application Fee Rs.10 per Application
BPL Exemption Applicants belonging to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category are completely exempt from all fees, provided they submit valid proof of their BPL status.

To provide information under sub-section (4) of Section 4 and sub-sections (1) and (5) of Section 7 of the RTI Act, 2005

(a) Rupees two for each page in A-3 or smaller size paper;

(b) Actual charge or cost price of a photocopy in larger size paper;

(c) Actual cost or price for samples or models;

(d) Rupees fifty per diskette or floppy;

(e) Price fixed for a publication or rupees two per page of photocopy for extracts from the publication;

(f) no fee for inspection of records for the first hour of inspection and a fee of rupees 5 for each subsequent hour of fraction thereof; and

(g) so much of postal charge involved in supply of information that exceeds fifty rupees.