Economic Times: New Delhi: Wednesday, November 19, 2014.
There is a 70
per cent spurt in the RTI applications received by the Prime Minister's Office
after Narendra Modi took over as Prime Minister.
The RTI
response received by activist Commodore (retd) Lokesh Batra said the country's
top office received 3069 RTI applications in the first five months this year
till May while from June-October the number of applications received by the PMO
shot up to 5208 which is an increase of about 70 per cent.
Since the RTI
Act was enacted in 2005, the Prime Minister's Office has received 40,128 RTI
applications.