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In 15 years, RTI has gone from Indian citizens’ most powerful tool to an Act on life support -Maneesh Chhibber

-ThePrint.in Chief Information Commission and its state counterparts have an unwritten rule about not penalising erring public information officers who discourage RTI applicants. Fifteen years after it came into effect, promising a new era in transparency in government functioning, India’s Right to Information, or RTI, Act is dying a slow but certain death, with the executive letting go of no chance to hasten the process. According to an estimate, between 40 and 60 lakh RTI applications are filed every year, but less than 3 per cent Indian citizens have ever filed an RTI plea. Of the applications filed, less than 45 per cent received the information they had sought, according to the ‘Report Card of Information Commissions in India, 2018-19’ released by the Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SSN) and the Centre for Equity Studies (CES). But of the 55 per cent who didn’t receive the information, less than 10 per cent filed appeals. It doesn’t help that the Chief Information Commission (CIC) and the State Information Commissions (SICs) have an unwritten rule about not penalising erring public information officers for their failure to respond to RTI applications properly and in time. And then there is the matter of huge backlog. Please click here to read more.