{"id":9910,"date":"2022-10-12T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T05:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9910"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:41:34","slug":"according-to-a-report-by-satark-nagrik-sangathan-backlog-of-rti-appeals-or-complaints-is-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/according-to-a-report-by-satark-nagrik-sangathan-backlog-of-rti-appeals-or-complaints-is-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"According to a report by Satark Nagrik Sangathan, backlog of RTI appeals or complaints is increasing in commissions every year."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 3.15 lakh complaints and appeals are pending with 26 information commissions across India.<\/li>\n<li>The number of appeals and complaints pending in 2019, from data obtained from 26 information commissions was 2,18,347.<\/li>\n<li>In 2020, the number climbed up to 2,33,384 with data obtained from 23 information commissions, in 2021 the number was 2,86,325 with data from 26 commissions and in 2022, it was 3,14,323.<\/li>\n<li>The highest number of pending cases was in Maharashtra at 99,722, followed by Uttar Pradesh at 44,482, Karnataka at 30,358, the Central Information Commission at 26,724 and Bihar at 21,346.<\/li>\n<li>The report says two information commissions\u2014Jharkhand and Tripura\u2014out of 29 across the country have been completely defunct for 29 months and 15 months respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Manipur, Telangana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh are without chiefs at the moment.<\/li>\n<li>Only 5% of the all positions in commissions are being occupied by women.<\/li>\n<li>Also, several information commissions, including the Central Information Commission, are working at reduced capacity with less than the stipulated number of members being in office.<\/li>\n<li>Under RTI law, information commissions are the final appellate authority and are mandated to safeguard and facilitate people\u2019s right to information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G3VACOMPU.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTI is an act of Parliament of India which sets out rules &#038; procedure regarding citizens&#8217; right to information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}