The applicant, along with the application in Form ‘A’ should send a demand draft or a banker’s cheque or an Indian Postal Order or Rs. 10/- (Rupees ten), payable to the Accounts Officer of the public authority as fee prescribed for seeking information. The payment of fee can also be made by way of cash to the Accounts Officer of the public authority or to the State Assistant Public Information Officer against proper receipt.
The applicant may also be required to pay further fee towards the cost of providing the information, deails of which shall be intimated to the applicant by the SPIO as prescribed by the Bihar Right to Information (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2006 Rates of fee as prescribed in the Rulers are given below :-
(a) Rupees two (Rs. 2/-) for each page (in A-4 or A-3 size paper) created or copied.
(b) Actual charge or cost price of a copy in larger size paper.
(c) Actual cost or price for samples or models.
(d) For inspection of records, no fee for the first hour; and a fee of rupees five (Rs. 5/-) for each subsequent hour (or fraction thereof).
(e) For information provided in diskette or floppy rupees fifty (Rs. 50/-) per diskette or floppy. and
(f) For information provided in printed form at the price fixed for such publication or rupees two per page of photocopy for extracts from the publication.
If the applicant belongs to below poverty line (BPL) category, he is not required to pay any fee. However, he should submit a proof in support of his claim to belong to the below poverty line. The application not accompanied by the prescribed fee of Rs. 10/- or proof of the application’s belonging to below poverty line, as the case may be, shall not be a valid application under the Act and therefore, the applicant does not entitle to get information.