I think we should insist upon the CIC to make it mandatory for all Government Departments (under State and Central Governments) to accept payments for provision of information made in favor of the Accounts Officer of respective Department. I have faced situations where the payment is accepted only if drawn in favor of the Director or PIO etc. I think its worthwhile to deliberate on this. Further organisations are not accepting personal cheques towards fees for provision of copies of documents. Atleast the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics at Hyderabad does not accept. Why should a citizen be penalised for paying commission charges to the bank which is sometimes more than the actual charges to be paid. CIC should further make amendments to RTI Act so that the National Electronic Funds Transfer/Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT/EFT) system is adopted for easy transfer of fees. This is a system whereby anyone who wants to make payment to another person / company etc. can approach his bank and give instructions / authorisation to transfer funds directly from his account to the bank account of the receiver / beneficiary. CIC should amend rules so that complete details such as the Public authorities name, bank account number, account type (savings or current account), bank name, city, branch name, etc., should be furnished to the citizen while seeking fees for provision of documents at the time of replying to the citizen seeking information. We need to seriously pursue such matters which is convinient for all of us. .
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I think we should insist upon the CIC to make it mandatory for all Government Departments (under State and Central Governments) to accept payments for provision of information made in favor of the Accounts Officer of respective Department. I have faced situations where the payment is accepted only if drawn in favor of the Director or PIO etc. I think its worthwhile to deliberate on this. Further organisations are not accepting personal cheques towards fees for provision of copies of documents. Atleast the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics at Hyderabad does not accept. Why should a citizen be penalised for paying commission charges to the bank which is sometimes more than the actual charges to be paid. CIC should further make amendments to RTI Act so that the National Electronic Funds Transfer/Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT/EFT) system is adopted for easy transfer of fees. This is a system whereby anyone who wants to make payment to another person / company etc. can approach his bank and give instructions / authorisation to transfer funds directly from his account to the bank account of the receiver / beneficiary. CIC should amend rules so that complete details such as the Public authorities name, bank account number, account type (savings or current account), bank name, city, branch name, etc., should be furnished to the citizen while seeking fees for provision of documents at the time of replying to the citizen seeking information. We need to seriously pursue such matters which is convinient for all of us. .
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