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:-

Year	Total No. of RTI requests received including the carried forward of previous year.	No. of RTI requests rejected	Percentage Rejection w.r.t total number of requests received during the year
2011-12	7,05,976	52,313	8.30%
2012-13	8,86,681	62,231	7.70%
2013-14	9,62,630	60,127	7.21%
2014-15	8,45,032	63,351	8.39%
2015-16	11,65,904	64,666	6.62%

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.