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According to the Citizen’s report entitled Promise and Performance: Ten years of the Forest Rights Act in India (released in December 2016), which has been brought out by the Community Forest Rights-Learning and Advocacy (CFR-LA) process (http://www.cfrla.org.in/) and supported by OXFAM–India and Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), please click here to access: • The bare minimum estimated potential…
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KEY TRENDS • A total of 7.55 lakh (755,247) RTI applications were received by the reporting public authorities in 2014-15. This is about 79,000 fewer RTI applications received in 2013-14. The CIC report notes this decline in the number of RTIs received. However almost 90,000 RTI applications were pending decision at the start of the…
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Kindly click here and here to access the key findings of the Report Card on the Performance of Information Commissions in India 2021-22 (released in October, 2022) that has been prepared by Satark Nagrik Sangathan. — Please click here to access the key findings of the Report Card on the Performance of Information Commissions in India, 2021 (released in October, 2021), which has been prepared…
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As per the Rapid Review 4.0 (previously named Rapid Study) of the State of Information Commissions and Use of RTI Laws across India (released in March 2018), which was prepared by the Commonwelath Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), please click here to access: State of Information Commissions • Headless and non-existent SICs: There is no State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC)…
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Please click here to access the Pre-legislative Consultative Policy dated 5th February, 2014, Legislative Department, Ministry of Law & Justice. Key findings of the Annual Report of the Central Information Commission (CIC) for 2014-15 (as informed by Venkatesh Nayak, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative): • Trends in RTI statistics reporting: Only 2,030 public authorities under the Government of India registered to submit their…
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As a part of the People’s RTI assessment 2011-13, a total of 2279 persons were individually interviewed across four states (in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Bihar) and the National Capital Region of Delhi. 2,000 people were individually interviewed (Street Corner Interviews-SCIs) in the capitals of the four sample states, and in Delhi. In addition,…
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According to the study entitled: Information Commissions and the Use of RTI Laws in India 2014 (Rapid Study 2.0) done by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), published in July 2014 (please click here to download the report): 1. Current Composition of and Vacancies in the Information Commissions • In 2013-2014 – a total of 138 posts of Information Commissioners…
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According to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee report relating to The RTI (Amendment) Bill, 2013, Sixty Sixth report, Presented to the Rajya Sabha on 17th December, 2013, [please click here to download the report]: • The Parliamentary Standing Committee has supported the Central Government’s proposal of amending the RTI Act to keep all political parties out of the…
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Please click here to download the Department of Personnel and Training’s revised version of RTI User Guide. To know what the RTI User Guide has for information seekers, please click here. DoPT’s guidelines on proactive disclosure The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has recently uploaded the second installment of guidelines for implementing the proactive disclosure obligations under Section…
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