Zee
News: New Delhi: Thursday, 04 December 2014.
The number of
Right to Information (RTI) requests has seen a 120 percent surge in the
financial year 2013-2014 and the numbers will continue to rise in the next year
as well, latest data reveals.
Information
requests received until March 2014 have shot up to 16,103 compared to the 7,335
requests received in the previous financial year, information received by RTI
activist Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd.) showed.
In the past
seven years, RTI requests hovered around the 7,000 mark in the past four years
and averaged about 2,000 a year in the previous three.
In the
current financial year, 9,580 applications have already been received till
October.
Appeals filed
to the chief information commissioner have also seen a similar increase of 110
percent. The number of appeals filed went up to 1,940, up from 923 in the
previous year.
If applicants
are not provided with information that they seek or they are unsatisfied with
the information that they receive, the RTI Act has a provision for filing an
appeal within 30 days.
A total of
1,001 appeals have been received in the first seven months of the current
financial year.
The post of
chief information commissioner, who is the head of the Central Information
Commission, has been vacant since Aug 23, when the previous commissioner Rajeev
Mathur, retired.
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