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Demand for reducing the fee under the RTI Act
8 Jan, 2012
As per the Jammu & Kashmir RTI rules which are in force since the enactment of JK RTI Act 2009, the Government Departments are charging Rs 50 as application fees and Rs 10 per page as photocopying charges. A demand has been made to reduce the fee to Rs 10 as RTI application fees and Rs 2 as photocopying charges per page in tune with the fee charged by the Central Government. It has been argued that there is no reason why the JK Government should charge five times higher fees that that prescribed by the Government of India.