Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pension
Department of Personnel & Training
North Block, New Delhi
Dated 10thJuly, 2015
To
1) Chief Secretaries of all States/UTs (except J&K).
2) The Registrars of all High Courts.
3) The Registrar of Supreme Court.
Subject. Harmonization of RTI (Fee & Cost) Rules and Appeal Procedure Rules under Right to
Information Act, 2005.
Sir,
The Government of India had notified a set of RTI Rules, 2012 dated 31.7.2012 in
supersession of Central Information Commission (Appeal procedure) Rules, 2005 and the Right
to Information (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005. While drafting the RTI Rules, 2012, it
was stipulated that once notified, the State Governments would be requested to adopt these rules
mutatis mutandis, so that there might be uniformity, as far as possible, in the matter of
implementation of the Act throughout the country.
2. Attention is also invited to this Department's letter of even number dated 26.4.2011
titled harmonization of fee payable under the Right to Information Act requesting thereby to
review the State/Supreme Court/High Court RTI Fee & Cost Rules and to prescribe fee in
consonance with the fee prescribed by the Government of India as per Right to Information
(Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005, so that the fee should not become disincen