Exempt RTI fees for disabled applicants

Activists demand Act and Rules copies in Braile Script

05/April/2012:

Jammu: The Right to Information Activists and Volunteers  across Jammu and Kashmir State have urged the State Government to Exempt RTI fees for disabled applicants seeking information under RTI act and also bring copies of Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009 and RTI Rules in Braile Script for visually impaired citizens. A joint appeal by  prominent RTI activists  including, Dr. Muzaffar Bhat of  JK RTI Movement, Narotam Sharma of Kshitij RTI Foundation, noted activist Raman Sharma, well known  Advocate Shiekh Shakeel Ahmed, Advocate Vilakshan Singh, , Advocate Nadeem Qadri from Srinagar, Advocate Dewakar Sharma, activist Deepak Sharma, Dr. Shiekh Ghulam Rasool of Badgam and Sardar Balvinder Singh along with Darvinder Singh (Sangarsh RTI Movement), have urged the state government and Chief Minister to exempt RTI fees for physically challenged peoples on the pattern of BPL category people, at present only a person falling in the BPL category is exempted from any kind of RTI fees. The activists in their joint appeal to the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah have argued that it would help the most deserving people of the society and take the transparency law to the reach of every citizen. They have also urged the state government to consider their appeal for bringing the copies of RTI Act and Rules in Braile script. In their joint plea the activists have also requested the General Administration Department to issue a formal order with regard to implementation of interim order of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, where the Court has slashed the RTI fees to Rs. 10/application and Rs. 2/page instead of Rs. 50/application and Rs. 10/page respectively. In absence of a formal notification most of the departments are even today demanding Rs. 50/application causing lot of humiliation to the RTI users.




JK NEWS POINT.. 06/April/2012

Exempt RTI fees for disabled applicants

Jammu Tawi, April 5 Right to Information Activists and Volunteers  across Jammu and Kashmir State have urged the State Government to exempt RTI fees for disabled applicants seeking information under RTI Act and also bring copies of Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009 and RTI Rules in Braile Script for visually impaired citizens. In a joint appeal prominent RTI activists  including, Dr. Muzaffar Bhat of  JK RTI Movement, Narotam Sharma of Kshitij RTI Foundation, noted activist Raman Sharma, well known  Advocate Shiekh Shakeel Ahmed, Advocate Vilakshan Singh, Advocate Nadeem Qadri from Srinagar, Advocate Dewakar Sharma, activist Deepak Sharma, Dr. Shiekh Ghulam Rasool of Budgam and Sardar Balvinder Singh along with Darvinder Singh (Sangarsh RTI Movement), have urged the state government and Chief Minister to exempt RTI fees for physically challenged people on the pattern of BPL category people who are exempted from any kind of RTI fees. The activists in their joint appeal to the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah have argued that it would help the most deserving people of the             society and take the transparency law to the reach of every citizen. They have also urged the state government to consider their appeal for bringing the copies of RTI Act and Rules in Braile script.  They have also requested the General Administration Department to issue a formal order with regard to implementation of interim order of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, wherein the Court has slashed the RTI fees to Rs 10 per application and Rs. 2                  per page. In absence of a formal notification most of the departments are even today demanding Rs 50 per application causing lot of humiliation to the RTI users.

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GREATER KASHMIR... 06/April/2012


‘Exempt RTI fees for physically challenged applicants’


Jammu, Apr 5: Many RTI activists and volunteers of Jammu and Kashmir have urged the Government to exempt RTI fees for physically challenged applicants seeking information under the Act.
 They also demanded that copies of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009 and RTI Rules should be prepared in Braille script for visually impaired citizens.
 A joint appeal in this regard has been made by prominent RTI activists including Dr Muzaffar Bhat of JK RTI Movement, Narotam Sharma of Kshitij RTI Foundation, Darvinder Singh (Sangarsh RTI Movement), Raman Sharma, Advocates Shiekh Shakeel Ahmed, Vilakshan Singh, Nadeem Qadri, Dewakar Sharma, Deepak Sharma, Dr Shiekh Ghulam Rasool and Sardar Balvinder Singh.  


http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Apr/6/-exempt-rti-fees-for-physically-challenged-applicants--57.asp