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State
Level RTI: Puducherry
Law
In
May 2005, the national Right
to Information Act 2005 was passed by Parliament. The RTI Act
2005 received Presidential assent on 15 June and came fully into
force on 12 October 2005. (For more information on the passage of
the RTI Act 2005 and implementation at the national level, click
here.)
The RTI Act 2005 covers all Central, State and local government
bodies and applies to the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
The
Pondicherry Administration has started implementing the RTI Act
2005. Click here to view the Right
to Information Regulation of Fee and Cost Rules 2005 and Right
to Information Appeal Rules 2005 notified by the Central Government.
For
a list of Public Information Officers and Appellate Authorities
designated by the State Government, click here.
Details
of Fee & Costs
| Application
|
Rs
10 |
| Mode
of payment |
Cash, demand draft, bankers cheque
|
| Additional
Fees: |
|
A-4/
A-3 paper, photocopied paper |
Rs
2 per page |
Larger
size paper |
Actual
cost |
Inspection
of Records |
Free
for first hour and Rs 5 for each 15 minutes or a fraction
thereof; |
Floppy/CD/diskette
or any other electronic mode |
Rs
50 per item |
Printed
publication |
At
the price fixed by such publication or at the cost of Rs
2 per page photocopy or in printed form |
Second Appeals and complaints against non-disclosure of information may be filed with the Pondicherry Information Commission.
State
Information Commission
| S.N. |
Name
of Commissioner |
Contact
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| 1 |
Mr. C.S. Khairwal
State Chief Information Commissioner |
Chief
Secretariat, C Block,
3rd Floor,Beach Road,
Puducherry-605001
Off: 0413-2233327;
Fax:0413-23337575
Email: cs@pon.nic.in |
Newsupdates,
Activities & Advocacy
- The State Information Commission of Puducherry
Abolished
In the wake of directions from the Ministry of Home Affairs,
The State Information Commission (SIC) in Puducherry, headed
by Mr. C. S. Khairwal, was
abolished on 31 July, 2007 by the orders of the Lieutenant Governor
of Puducherry. Under the RTI Act the Union Territories cannot
have a State Information Commission. Therefore the formation
of the Commission and the appointment of the State Chief Information
Commissioner was outside the ambit of powers of the Puducherry
Government. The abolition of the SCIC will not affect the legality
of the orders passed and the decisions taken with appeals and
petitions pending before it being transferred to the Central
Information Commission in New Delhi. The Ministry may allow
the Puducherry Government to open a sub-office and post an officer
in-charge to enable citizens to file appeals.
Resources
& Articles
Government
CHRI
- CHRI (2005) Forwarding Information Requests and
Appeals: A Step by Step Guide for Assistant Public Information
Officers under the Right to Information Act 2005, prepared by
Mr Venkatesh Nayak.
- CHRI (2005) Processing Information Requests:
A Step by Step Guide for Assistant Public Information Officers
under the Right to Information Act 2005, prepared by Mr Venkatesh
Nayak.
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