Dear Arun, Sidharth and Niladri, At the outset may I say that I am delighted that our enforcement of the new posting policy has begun to show results -in the form of focussed and trimmed mails.
The notified Central RTI (Fee and Cost) Rules are clear that the IPO is payable to the "*Accounts Officer*" of the Public Authority. (see Rules 3, 4 and 5). URLs: http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Notifications/RTI%20Fee%20Cost%20Rules.pdf http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Notifications/notification-dopt-ipo.pdf Sarbajit On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Arun <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Postal Orders are most convenient forms of payment for such applications . > Regretfully, most of the PAs do not specify in whose favour such IPOs are > to > be made out . > > Recently I sent a query to Passport Office, Ghaziabad , making the IPO > payable to > PIO, Passport Officer > > This was returned ( thankfully ! ) with the remarks, some 21 days later, > that the > IPO be made payable to Passport Officer . > > I feel that the best way to get around this problem is not to specify the > payee's name > on the IPO > > Dr Arun Agrawal > >
