Times of India: New Delhi: Saturday, March 17, 2018.
More than 12
years after the RTI Act came into existence, the total number of RTI
applications to public authorities - central ministries, departments and
government organisations - have shown a dip of 6%.
The slide is
intriguing in the backdrop of 2016-17 being the period which saw the highest
compliance of reporting of public authorities - from 1,903 in 2015-16 the
number of public authorities responding went up to 1,965 in 2016-17.
The figures,
which were released by the central information commission (CIC) as part of its
annual report, show that while more public authorities are now filing their
annual RTI statistics to the CIC, the actual number of RTI applications has
come down from 9.76 lakh in 2015-16 to 9.17 lakh in 2016-17.
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