Wednesday 14 December 2016

Implementation of RTI Act, 2005

Date : 14.11.2016

Implementation of RTI Act, 2005



Press Information Bureau 
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
14-December-2016 16:32 IST 

Implementation of RTI Act, 2005

As informed by the Central Information Commission (CIC), the details of the rejection of the RTI requests by the Public Information Officers of Central Government/Departments for the last five years are given as under:-

YearTotal No. of RTI requests received including the carried forward of previous year.No. of RTI requests rejectedPercentage
Rejection w.r.t total number of requests received during the year
2011-127,05,97652,3138.30%
2012-138,86,68162,2317.70%
2013-149,62,63060,1277.21%
2014-158,45,03263,3518.39%
2015-1611,65,90464,6666.62%

This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question by Shri Sirajuddin Ajmal in the Lok Sabha today

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