Fees for First Appeal in West Bengal

[linardni]

Is there any fee for first appeal of RTI Act in West Bengal? If so,what's the amount? Is court fee applicable? Furthermore please let me know the designation and address of the first appellate authority of West Bengal Power Development Corporation, West Bengal (website : ...: West Bengal Power Development Corporation :...)

[Debashis Basu]

No fees for first appeal.

You can call them up and seek the information. OR, send your first appeal application to MD. He is duty bound to send your first appeal to appropriate officer as head of the Public Authority

[Abhinav Bohare]

Basu has given you the best tips and suggestions.


Based on experience I would like to advise that don't be over stated in First Appeal...Kindly find underneath a supportive format for the same.




First Appellate Authority
____________________________
A. Contact details:

1. Name of the Applicant
2. Address, Tel. No.

B. Details about RTI request:

1. Particulars of the SPIO against whose order appeal is preferred	(a) Name
	(b) Address
2. Date of submission of application (Please attach a copy
3. Brief facts leading to appeal	(a) No response received within 30 days of submission of Form I
	(b) Aggrieved by the response received within the prescribed period (a copy of the order received be attached)
	Grounds for appeal _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
4. Prayer or relief sought
5. Last date for filing the appeal
6. If appeal is being filed after 30 days, the reasons which prevented from filing appeal in time	__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________
7. Copies of documents relied upon by the applicant

Signature of the Applicant……………

[colnrkurup]

In case of High Courts things are little diferent. In their case they make use of provisions of theAct and made separate Rules. In Kerala one has to pay Rs.50/- for an appeal under RTI before the High Court. This is valid.

[Debashis Basu]

Excellent format Abhinav.

3 (a) will be Form I or " within 30 days of submission of query u/s 6 (I) (a)

[Abhinav Bohare]

Basu I appreaicte yours motivation and the referrence you have given , if read properly would be of greater use to linardni.

Colonel Kurup has also rightly pointed out some additional facts

Well done

[karira]

Originally Posted by linardni

Is there any fee for first appeal of RTI Act in West Bengal? If so,what's the amount? Is court fee applicable? Furthermore please let me know the designation and address of the first appellate authority of West Bengal Power Development Corporation, West Bengal (website : ...: West Bengal Power Development Corporation :...)

I had guided you for drafting the application to the PIO of WBPDC.
Did you recieve the reply ?
If yes, then the PIO himself should be able to tell you who is the designated Higher Officer for First Appeal under the RTI Act 2005.
If your application for information was rejected, then under Section 7(8)(iii), the PIO should have informed you "the particulars of the apellate authority".
If you did not recieve any reply from the PIO, you can either make a First Appeal to the appropriate authority OR go directly for a complaint to WBSIC under section 18(1)(c).

For the fees for First Appeal, please see the word doc attached to the post:

Appeals under RTI

I wanted to complete the list for all States and also update data for those states where changes have taken place in the fee structure, but apart from Sidmis and narayanvarma, no one took initiative.

If there are members from other states, can they please update the information while quoting the relevant GO.

[linardni]

Dear Karira,
As per you guidance I have sent a RTI Application to the PIO through Speed Post on 22-08-2007. Upon tracking the letter through Postal Department Website (Welcome to Indiapost) I came to know that it's delivered on 24-08-2007. Now the 30 days count down period is reaching maturity. I want all to know the detailed proceedings of this case. That's why I've started my blog in this forum. Thanks once again for the help you've extended me making time out of your hectic schedule.

[Abhinav Bohare]

Thats a great Idea

Blog are of real use here

Great We would all await the finale

[linardni]

What may be written under column "Prayer or relief sought" given in the format if the first appeal for non response of RTI Application.
May I seek justified punitive action against the PIO under this column?

[karira]

Linardni,

In the First Appeal no point in asking for punitive action or penalty since as per RTI Act, only the SIC and CIC have powers for this.
The column "prayer or relief sought" should ask the AA to instruct the PIO to give the required information within XX days of the order.

[linardni]

thanks karira for ur kind reply.

[Abhinav Bohare]

Generally We should not use any offensive or unstandardized language.

Karira would agree that what matter more is the legal truth in the application and not the hyper active language

In my Govt service I have seen many RTI application being , non vindictive, stuck in official smartness due to offensive or pro active language.

As far as Linardni is concerned he knows politeness or alibi active languages

So Karira was birllinat in his advise and Even Linardni who thought to ask before proceeding

Great RTIindia.org is 1 yr old now and we have matured too

I thank you both