IT Refund using RTI

[anupamjain76]

Hi,

This blog is just to share my success story with you all. I did not get my IT refund for the last one year. But when I filed the RTI application with the Hyderabad IT office, I got my refund cheque within 15 days.

I was really surprised and very impressed to see that RTI is really a very powerful tool.

I encourage everyone to use it effectively to expedite your matters lying pending with govt agencies.

I thank the RTI team for their help.

Regards,
Anupam

[karira]

anupamjain,

Many thanks for sharing this with us.
Your post will encourage many other guests and members of this forum to use RTI.

Now that you have personally experienced success in using RTI, why don't you spread the RTI word amongst your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and anyone else whom you come across - RTI will be helpful to them also.

[december]

Things have been changing for the worse. I sought information from ITO regarding my own refunds for the last two assessment years. I followed the process outlined on this website for using RTI to get status of refund. Sad to say, the ITO replied saying the office was exempted from providing the information under section 8(1)(e) unless larger public interest is clarified to solicit information from fiduciary authority.

Where is RTI heading?

Are we in a democracy, if I have to prove larger public interest to get information about our own IT refund status?

Originally Posted by anupamjain76

Hi,

This blog is just to share my success story with you all. I did not get my IT refund for the last one year. But when I filed the RTI application with the Hyderabad IT office, I got my refund cheque within 15 days.

I was really surprised and very impressed to see that RTI is really a very powerful tool.

I encourage everyone to use it effectively to expedite your matters lying pending with govt agencies.

I thank the RTI team for their help.

Regards,
Anupam

[ganpat1956]

Originally Posted by december

Things have been changing for the worse. I sought information from ITO regarding my own refunds for the last two assessment years. I followed the process outlined on this website for using RTI to get status of refund. Sad to say, the ITO replied saying the office was exempted from providing the information under section 8(1)(e) unless larger public interest is clarified to solicit information from fiduciary authority.

Where is RTI heading?

Are we in a democracy, if I have to prove larger public interest to get information about our own IT refund status?

Dear Sahu, please donot make repeat postings of the same subject and that too in a success story of another member. YOu have already initiated a separate thread and it is being discussed by our activists.