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Thiruvananthapuram
Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Cabinet on Wednesday fixed the fees payable for obtaining information under the Central Right to Information Act from Government departments and agencies. The application fee will be Rs.10 per request. Every standard page of information will be charged at the rate of Rs.2. For larger pages, the actual cost will be collected. Actual costs will apply for samples and models too. There will be no fee for the perusal of information for an hour. For additional time, Rs.10 will be charged for every half an hour or part thereof. Information made available on floppy diskettes and compact discs (CDROM) will be charged at Rs.50 per floppy or disc. No fee will be charged from people living below the poverty line. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told mediapersons after the Cabinet meeting that the fees were determined on the lines of fees fixed by the Central Government and the Karnataka Government. The Chief Minister said he had nominated Finance Minister Vakkom Purushothaman to the committee for selecting Chief State Information Commissioners and two State Information Commissioners. (Under the provisions of the Act, the Opposition Leader is also a member of the committee chaired by the Chief Minister.)
Committee meet
The committee would meet on Friday. Mr. Chandy said the Government would provide Rs.10 lakhs as assistance for the Santosh Trophy Football Tournament to be held in Ernakulam next month. n amount of Rs.25,000 each would be provided to the families of two fishermen form Kerala who had been released from prison in Pakistan recently. They had been arrested by Pakistan authorities while fishing at the sea near Pakistan. The Cabinet cleared construction of diversion canals for the Palakapandy Irrigation Project. A sum of Rs.42 lakhs was sanctioned to pay the net present value of the forests being cleared for the project.
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