RTI Act: How would an appeal be preferred under RTI?

though you have not asked the documents,but the information may be in the documents itself,so you should have asked them how much.Since you have not complied with their instructions and their reply does not amount to denial you cannot appeal.the provision ofappeal in the act is to the higher authority,in this case it could be to the govt.

However when their reply through e-mail was received by me, I replied them thourgh e-mail asking for calrification about the processing fee and how much the processing fee would be charged. i was willing to pay it, but no reply has come since last month from 4/1/10. I asked what is processing fee and I have not applied for any extra documents.

 

Also there is no mention of any extra processing fee in the RTI Act. If any, they ought to had replied me again through e-mail, which they failed.

 

So what can be done?

Actually, alongwith the RTI Act, there is "The Right to Information (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005  made by the The Central Government under Section 27(2) of the  RTI Act.   The Rules 4 and 5 gives the details of the fees payable  to the Public authority like Rs.2 per page etc.

Kindly refer to the same.