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Fee for RTI Act plea may be scrapped
MADURAI: Government departments have been asked to host on the websites all the information relating to schemes and procedures for the people to get benefits under them and to ensure transparent governance, E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice, said on Saturday.
Addressing a one-day seminar on the Right to Information Act and its implementation, he said the committee was visualising a situation in which no application under the Act was received for want of information.
All government departments and public sector undertakings, including the judiciary and legislature, were accountable for using the taxpayers’ money.
Petitions for information from various departments had been flooding in the past two years, and the Central Information Commission had disposed of 16,000 applications and another 8,000 were to be cleared, Dr. Natchiappan said. The committee was considering scrapping of the initial fee, he said.
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