Students Should Seek Evaluated Answer Sheets Under RTI Act

To

The public Information Officer,
JK  Board of School Education, Rehari,
Jammu_180005

SUBJ: Application under JK RTI ACT 2009.

Sir,

I have appeared in class 10th (2016) board exam as a regular candidate under Roll no.................  Board Registration Numb...................

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Kindly provide me information under the provisions Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009. I am a resident of Jammu and Kashmir state and entitled to seek information as per section 3 of the act. The requisite  fees of Rs 10-Ten is enclosed herewith as Indian Postal Order bearing no..............

INFORMATION SOUGHT :

1.      Kindly provide me certified photo copies of all my Evaluated Answer Sheets of All the subjects i.e. Hindi, English, Maths, Social Studies and Science.

NOTE: The Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of CBSE & Anr Vs Aditya Bandhopadhaya & Ors (Civil Appeal no. 6454 of 2011 arising out of SLP(C) No. 7526 of 2009) decided on 9/8/2011 has held that evaluated answer sheets of Universities, State Education Boards, Competitive Examinations, Recruitment Test, and Selection Tests etc are “information” within the meaning of RTI Act and therefore required to be disclosed under Right to Information Act. The PIOs are therefore under obligation to supply copy of evaluated answer sheets to the examinees.

Date:

Yours faithfully,          

Name of student:
Father's Name:
Address;

SAMPLE IPO.........NOT ORIGINAL....

Don’t Pay hefty Fee, Seek Evaluated Answer Copies Under RTI

Jammu, 13/May/2016: The students need to pay hefty fees to seek copies of their answer sheets from the state board or from university instead they should seek certified copies of evaluated answer sheets under Right to Information Act paying only Rupees ten.

RTI Activist Raman Sharma has appealed the parents and regular students of class 10^th whose result was declared 2 days ago by the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education to use the provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009 to get certified copies of evaluated answer sheets from the board.

He said the parents and the students need not to pay hefty fee or visit the board office and they can send their RTI applications along with an Indian Postal Order of Rupees 10 as RTI fees via registered post.

Sharma Informed  that the State Board is under legal obligation to provide the copies of the answer sheet under RTI Act as well,  as  this was ordered by the honourable Supreme Court in 2011, in case titled CBSE & Anr Vs Aditya Bandhopadhaya & Ors.

Sharma said not only class 10^th regular candidate but even private students of other higher classes  can similarly get certified copies under RTI law from the board. In the meantime  he has also uploaded a sample copy of the RTI application on his blog   jkrtiact.blogspot.in.