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The Commission shall impose how much amount as the penalty on each day, if the PIO, without any reasonable cause, refused to receive an application for information till it reaches Rupees twenty-five thousand under the RTI Act, 2005 ?<\/p>\n

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According to Section 20(1) of the RTI Act, 2005, if a Public Information Officer (PIO), without any reasonable cause, refuses to receive an application, fails to provide information within the specified time, malafidely denies the request, gives incorrect, incomplete or misleading information, or obstructs the information in any manner, the Information Commission shall impose a penalty of two hundred and fifty rupees each day till application is received or information is furnished, subject to a maximum of twenty-five thousand rupees.<\/section>\n
The daily penalty for delay or refusal by a PIO is \u20b9250 per day, up to a maximum of \u20b925,000.<\/section>\n
The Information Commission must give the PIO a reasonable opportunity of being heard before imposing any penalty. The burden of proving that he acted reasonably and diligently lies on the PIO.<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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