RTI fee in Telangana — 2026 schedule and TGIC portal

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Fees verified against the TG RTI Online portal guidelines and the commission's own contact page.

The portal's application guidelines state the fee is “as prescribed in the RTI Rules, 2012” — the ₹10 application fee — payable by internet banking, Master or Visa credit and debit card, or RuPay card. Below Poverty Line applicants pay nothing, provided the BPL certificate issued by the competent government is attached.

TG RTI Online is the state's official filing system. From the portal's own menus:

1. RTI Request — new application and first appeal
2. Second Appeal — straight to the commission
3. Application Status — track your RTI and first appeal
4. RTI Complaint and Information U/S 4(1)(b) disclosures
5. RTI Mobile Apps — the same services on your phone

One practical trap the portal itself warns about: after paying, if you do not immediately receive a registration number, wait 24 to 48 working hours for reconciliation. Do not pay again. If the number still does not arrive, email the transaction details to [email protected] — that address is printed in the portal's own guidelines.

The Telangana Information Commission was constituted on 13 September 2017 and Dr. G. Chandrashekar Reddy took charge as State Chief Information Commissioner on 9 May 2025.

• Address: Telangana Information Commission, Samachara Hakku Bhavan, Behind Mozam-Jahi Market, Hyderabad - 500001
• Phone: 040-24740240 — SCIC office 040-24740107
• Email: [email protected]
• Working hours: 10:30 am to 5 pm; second Saturday and Sunday holidays
• Website: tgic.telangana.gov.in

Note that the older address tsic.gov.in no longer resolves — the commission's site now lives at tgic.telangana.gov.in, with online filing on rti.telangana.gov.in.

1. No reply in 30 days, or a refusal you dispute — first appeal to the officer senior to the PIO, within 30 days of the refusal.
2. First appeal ignored — second appeal to TGIC within 90 days of the first-appeal decision, or of the date it should have arrived.
3. The portal files it electronically and lists it for hearing. TGIC publishes its own cause lists and orders online.
4. For a public authority with no PIO appointed, or an office that refuses to accept the application, the portal's RTI Complaint section carries a §18 complaint straight to the commission — no fee, and no 90-day bar.

Ask for the extra demand in writing with the arithmetic under §7(3). Anything beyond ₹2 per page plus actual postal charges is challengeable in the first appeal — which costs nothing. Keep the ₹10 payment receipt and registration number handy; the appeal needs both.

Real example. Kashvi Pathak of Warangal filed for the sanction file of a road drain outside her college. The PIO's office asked her to “come and discuss the fee”. She quoted the schedule, paid ₹10 online, got 11 pages at ₹22, and the work order copy exposed that the sanction was two years old and unused.

₹10 for the application, per the RTI Rules 2012 the portal cites. Copies are ₹2 per page. Gujarat is the state that charges ₹20 — not Telangana.

Yes. rti.telangana.gov.in has a dedicated Second Appeal section with its own guide and status view.

Samachara Hakku Bhavan, behind Mozam-Jahi Market, Hyderabad - 500001. Phone 040-24740240.

No. Neither the first appeal nor the second appeal to the commission carries a fee in Telangana.

English, Telugu and Urdu are all accepted for applications to state public authorities.

• TG RTI Online portal — application guidelines and fee modes
• Telangana Information Commission — contact details and online filing links
• RTI Act 2005, §6, §7(3), §19

• State-wise RTI fees — all states compared
• All state RTI portals in one list
• Fee Calculator with photocopy estimate
• AI RTI Drafter — auto-fills PIO details
• The RTI Playbook