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Work out RTI application and copying fees, BPL exemption, and the exact reply and appeal deadlines under the RTI Act 2005.
The RTI Fee and Timeline Calculator prices a Right to Information request under the Right to Information Rules 2012 and dates it under the Right to Information Act 2005. Fees follow Rule 3 (Rs 10 to apply), Rule 4(a) (Rs 2 per A-4 or A-3 page), Rule 4(d) (Rs 50 per disc) and Rule 4(f) (inspection free for the first hour, then Rs 5 an hour), with a full exemption for BPL applicants under Rule 8. The timeline applies the 30-day reply period in Section 7(1), the extra 5 days under Section 5(2) when an Assistant PIO takes the application, the 40-day third-party track in Section 11(3), and the days excluded under Section 7(3) while a further fee is unpaid.
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APIO filing, life-and-liberty requests, third-party information and further-fee exclusions each change the due date, and all four are handled.
The application fee and per-page rate can be overridden, because state and High Court rules differ from the central ones.
Tick that the deadline was missed and the additional fee drops to zero, because delayed information must be supplied free.
Rs 10 as the application fee under Rule 3 of the Right to Information Rules 2012 for central public authorities, plus Rs 2 for each A-4 or A-3 page copied under Rule 4(a). A person below the poverty line pays nothing at all under Rule 8 and the proviso to Section 7(5). State governments notify their own rules and some charge a different application fee.
Thirty days from receipt under Section 7(1). It becomes 48 hours where the information concerns the life or liberty of a person, 40 days where third-party information is involved under Section 11(3), and 35 days where the application was handed to an Assistant Public Information Officer, because Section 5(2) adds five days.
Yes. Section 7(3) requires the officer to intimate the further fee payable, and the period between the despatch of that intimation and the payment of the fee is excluded from the thirty days. A gap of ten days between the demand and the payment pushes the reply date out by exactly ten days.
Section 20(1) allows the Information Commission to impose Rs 250 for each day of delay, subject to a ceiling of Rs 25,000, so the cap is reached after 100 days. Separately, Section 7(6) requires the information to be supplied free of charge when the deadline is missed. The penalty is imposed on the officer and is not compensation payable to the applicant; this is general information, not legal advice.
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