{"id":10684,"date":"2011-05-15T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2011-05-15T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T09:01:53","slug":"pmo-sees-8400-percent-rise-in-rti-pleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pmo-sees-8400-percent-rise-in-rti-pleas","title":{"rendered":"PMO sees 8,400 percent rise in RTI pleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/RTI.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10685\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pmo-sees-8400-percent-rise-in-rti-pleas\/rti-8\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/RTI.png?fit=265%2C190&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"265,190\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RTI\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/RTI.png?fit=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/RTI.png?fit=265%2C190&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10685\" title=\"RTI\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/RTI.png?resize=265%2C190&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/RTI.png?w=265&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/RTI.png?resize=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>People are seeking answers, even if it means asking the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) some tough questions. The number of Right to Information (RTI) applications filed with the office have increased a whopping 8,402 percent in five years, say officials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The number of RTI queries with the PMO rose from 48 in 2005 &#8211; when the act came into force &#8211; to over 4,000 applications in 2010, say information officials in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PMO has received a total of 13,216 applications since October 2005, with the proposed anti-corruption Lokpal Bill attracting the maximum queries lately. The act empowers every citizen to seek any information from the government, inspect any government document and seek certified photocopies of those that have come into force.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the RTI Act was mplemented, the number of RTI queries to the PMO has risen tremendously. The PMO had received 4,081 queries last year till December alone, compared to 48 applications filed in 2005,\u201d the PMO\u2019s Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) Sanjukta Ray told .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a three-member team, most of the RTI pleas have been dealt with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a small team with just three people but we managed to tackle thousands of RTI applications every year. As of now, we are piled with queries on the Lokpal Bill and applications based on news reports and current affairs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the act, the public information officer (PIO) should respond within 30 days of the receipt of an application, failing which the applicant should make the first appeal to the appellate authority of the same department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ray said they do not have a large number of first appeals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the PMO received and cleared 743 RTI applications out of which 70 went for first appeal. In 2007, there were 1,621 RTI applications out of which 127 went for the first appeal, in 2008, 2,286 applications and 276 first appeals, in 2009, 2,766 applications and 435 first appeals, and in 2010, 4,081 applications and 510 first appeals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ray also noted that they get a good number of \u201cnon-valid\u201d applications, which should be addressed to other officials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, a person from Chhattisgarh sent an RTI application on an issue related to the collector of a particular district and asked us to help him out to get the information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About the method of working of her team which comprises her and two subordinates, Ray said they process the applications and try to seek information from the departments concerned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take a list of applications which are to be answered in eight days and check out how much information has been received and if it\u2019s not received, we try to get the information from the department sought by the applicant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the PMO, the department of personnel and training (DoPT) has processed 14,292 applications in the last five years, a finding of RTI applicant Lokesh Batra revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to other public authorities, the DoPT takes a lot of time to respond. DoPT has 47 central public information officers (CPIO), while other ministries and departments have only one to look into the RTI applications,\u201d Batra told.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each CPIO has handled just 276 queries over a span of five years, Batra noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whencontacted one of the CPIOs and asked the reason for delays in the processing of RTI applications, he declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The external affairs ministry received 3,765 applications in the last five years. Out of these, the maximum number, 946, were filed in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The findings also showed that even though the external affairs ministry received a lesser number of applications compared to many other public authorities, there were 652 cases in which the applicants did not receive information or were not satisfied with the quality of information received and filed first appeals with the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the MEA has a full time CPIO of joint secretary rank, it is still not efficient in giving out details,\u201d Batra claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has received 6,175 RTI applications from April 2006 to November 2010. The maximum number of applications (2,019) were filed<\/p>\n<p>in 2009-10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are seeking answers, even if it means asking the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) some tough questions. The number of Right to Information (RTI) applications filed with the office have increased a whopping 8,402 percent in five years, say officials. &nbsp; The number of RTI queries with the PMO rose from 48 in 2005 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3488,3487,3490,2763,1749,3489],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-400-percent-rise","tag-3487","tag-department-of-personnel-and-training","tag-dopt","tag-pmo","tag-rti-pleas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PMO sees 8,400 percent rise in RTI pleas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People are seeking answers, even if it means asking the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) some tough questions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pmo-sees-8400-percent-rise-in-rti-pleas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PMO sees 8,400 percent rise in RTI pleas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"People are seeking answers, even if it means asking the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) some tough questions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pmo-sees-8400-percent-rise-in-rti-pleas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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