Govt decides to modify RTI rules

The state government has decided to modify the Right to Information RTI rules by making postal orders, bank drafts, non-judicial stamp papers and banker cheques acceptable in government offices along with applications for seeking information under the act.

Sandip Srimani, additional government pleader of the state government, informed a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice S S Nijjar and Justice Sanjib Banerjee that the state Cabinet had taken the decision on Thursday.

Sudip Mukherjee of Human Rights Law Network, an NGO, had filed a petition in the High Court that the court fee stamps were not available in all the places which are required to be attached with the RTI applications.