FIRST APPEAL UNDER SECTION 19(1) OF RTI ACT-2005

1. FIRST APPEAL OFFICER DESIGNATION AND ADDRESS: Mr.GANGADHAR GARU,

FIRST APPEAL OFFICER,
SUB TREASURY OFFICE,
KUPPAM, CHITTOOR (D),
A.P.

2. APPLICANT NAME & ADDRESS: J CHANDRADEVI,W/O J CHENGA REDDY,

G/O C S RAJA REDDY,PEDDABHARANI PALLI (V),
BAIRUPALLI (P), VKOTA (M), CHITTOOR (D),
A.P.517424.

3. GOVERNMENT SECTOR: SUB TREASURY OFFICE KUPPAM

4. INFORMATION GIVEN BY P.I.O: Letter attached as an annexure-2.

5. REASON FOR APPEAL: Attached as an annexure-3

6. NECESSARY ACTION TO BE TAKEN ON PIO: As per the provisions of the act.

7. DATE OF FIRST APPEAL: 29/11/2018

8. ENCLOSURES :

a) RTI application
b) Letter given by the sub treasury officer KUPPAM.
c) Paper showing the reason for appeal.

Regards,

C PAVAN KUMAR
 REASON FOR APPEAL

Sir,

An application filed by me through RTI ACT 2005 under section 6(1) a was rejected by the appropriate
P.I.O. by showing the below mentioned three reasons:-

a) Applicant failed to enclose a demand draft or a banker’s cheque or an Indian postal order of RS 10/- along with
RTI APPLICATION as RTI application fee.
b) The queries submitted by the applicant to the public information officer were in the form of questions.

1. It is submitted that my RTI application itself contains the court fee stamps of Rs5/- affixed. As per the
GO.MS.NO.740 amendment rules of section 1(1) every citizen seeking information can pay the RTI fee even
through court fee stamp. It is not compulsory to pay RTI fee via demand draft or a banker’s cheque or an Indian
postal order only. It is submitted that with respect to section 4(b) of RTI ACT 2005 it is the duty of the P.I.O to be
thorough with the provisions of the act within 120 days after the enactment of RTI ACT. Already 12 years passed
after enactment of RTI ACT 2005. Please justify what the P.I.O is doing from 12 years without knowing about the
provisions of act. He was just drilling holes for RTI ACT 2005 by changing the track of the applicant. This
procedure was entirely against the due process of law since the P.I.O itself does not knows the provisions of the
act ,what service he can do for the public.

2. Also the P.I.O specified that queries submitted by the applicant to the public information officer were in the form
of questions. Please justify whether they had specified anywhere in the RTI ACT 2005 or any government GOS that
information seeking should not be in the form of questions. Even this is against the due process of law.

3. It is submitted that where a request has been rejected under sub-section (/), the Central Public Information Officer
or State Public Information Officer, as the case may be, shall communicate to the person making the request, — (i)
the reasons for such rejection; (ii) the period within which an appeal against such rejection may be preferred; and
(iii) the particulars of the appellate authority. Please justify anywhere in the rejection letter given by P.I.O specified
the period within which date an appeal against such rejection may be preferred or the particulars of the appellate
authority & the particulars of the appellate authority. Even this process is against the provisions of law.

Thanking you,
Regards,

J CHANDRADEVI