• An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental there to.
  
• WHEREAS the Constitution of India has established democratic Republic;
  
• AND WHEREAS democracy requires an infaimed citizenry and transparency of information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed;
  
• AND WHEREAS revelation of information in actual practice is likely to conflict with other public interests including efficient operations of the Governments, optimum use of limited fiscal resources and the preservation of confidentiality of sensitive information;
• AND WHEREAS it is necessary to harrnonise these conflicting interests while preserving the paramountcy of the democratic ideal;
• NOW, THEREFORE, it is expedient to provide for furnishing certain information to citizens who desire to have it.
• BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
  
• In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
  
• "Appropriate Government" means in relation to a public authority which is established, constituted, owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly
  

• "Competent authority" means—The Speaker in the case of the House of the People or the Legislative Assembly of a State or a Union territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in the case of the Council of States or Legislative Council of a State;
  
• The Chief Justice of India in the case of the Supreme Court;
• The Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of a High Court;
  
• The President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or
  
• Constituted by or under the Constitution;
  
• The administrator appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;
  

• Any microfilm, microfiche and facsimile copy of a document;
  
• Any reproduction of image or images embodied in such microfilm (whether enlarged or not) and 
  
• Any other material produced by a computer or any other device "Right to information" means the right to    information accessible under this Act which is held by or under the control of any public authority and         includes the right to
  
• Inspection of work, documents, records;
  
• Taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records;
  
• Taking certified samples of material;
  
• Obtaining information in the form of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device

RTI DECLARATION

Number of RTI issues addressed for the last 2 years

2023-24 & 2024-25