For making an appeal to the first Appellate Authority, the applicant has to select the option “Submit First Appeal” in the RTI-online portal and fill up the form that will appear. The registration number of original application may be used for the reference. The appeal so filed through this RTI-online portal will also reach electronically to the Nodal Officer of the concerned department/public-authority, and not to the first Appellate Authority. The Nodal Officer will transmit the first appeal to the concerned First Appellate Authority (FAA), either electronically or physically.

The text of the application may be written in the prescribed column of the form. At present, the text of the application is confined up to 500 words (Excluding Name, Address etc) only in the prescribed column of the form. In case, the text of an application contains more than 500 words, then application can be rejected.

On submission of a RTI-application, a unique registration-number will be issued which may be referred by the applicant for any future reference. This unique number will be sent by SMS as well through e-mail to the applicant. It may be noted that the application filed through this RTI-online portal, will reach electronically to the “Nodal Officer” of the said department/public-authority and “Not” to the PIO of the concerned Department/public-authority. The Nodal Officer will transmit the RTIapplication, either electronically or physically to the concerned PIO.

Applicants below-poverty-line (BPL) are not required to pay any fees as per the RTI Rules. However, the applicant must attach a copy of the BPL-certificate issued by the appropriate government in this regard, along with the application. In case of non-BPL applicants, after filling the first page, they will be directed to the payment-page on which the applicant has to click on “Make Payment” button for payment of the prescribed RTI-fee. The applicant can pay the prescribed RTI-fee through the following modes:Net banking

An applicant who desires to obtain any information under the RTI Act 2005 can submit an application through this portal but only to government-departments and other publicauthorities of Government of Uttar Pradesh.