RTI Bharat

07/04/2021

The Mumbai High Court passed the order while hearing a petition filed by RTI activists alleging a massive scam in toll collection on expressways. In 1999, the state government built an expressway between Pune and Mumbai at Rs 2,000 crore and handed over the toll collection responsibility to MSRDC

MSRDC, PWD officials named accused

07/04/2021

As per government rules , Public Information Officers have to answer any RTI application within 30 days of it's filing
After that period , the official will be fined ₹ 250 per day till he disposes of the application
The fine also has a maximum limit

07/04/2021

ASI officials fined over RTI query on Taj Mahal

Not providing information about illegal constructions in the prohibited area around Taj Mahal proved costly for two officials of the Archaeological Survey of India as the CIC imposed a penalty of ₹25,

07/04/2021

In 2013, NCERT had admitted they have no documents to back claims on Qutab Minar made in textbooks

NCERT's reply to a 2013 RTI query says they have no documents or epigraphic evidence to back the claims made regarding the Qutab Minar in their history textbook. | OpIndia News

07/04/2021

In-a-shocker-RTI-reveals-that-NCERT-has-no-information-available-on-Indian-History

Distortion of Indian history had always been an agenda of the ‘historians’ affiliated with the left and it is an open secret that even NCERT history textbooks mostly written by those pseudo-historians have been used as propaganda tools. In the latest evidence to strengthen this allegation, a new...

07/04/2021

In cas of a clash between Official Secrets Act and Right to Information Act , the provisions of RTI act will ov r ride

07/04/2021

Please note that armed forces , political parties funding and sensitive areas like defence ministry etc are outside the RTI Act
Do not waste time and energy in asking questions from them

07/04/2021

Online RTI can only be filed for Central Government departments from rtionline.gov.in

States departments have their separate websites for the purpose

07/04/2021

Filing RTI is free but if you want hard copies of documents then separate fees are to be paid at the rate of ₹2 per page

07/04/2021

Please note that BPL category people do not pay any fees for RTI
But non BPL people have to pay 10 ₹ as application fees
Further fees if required will be asked from you by the concerned department

07/04/2021

Please note that only citizens of Bharat can file RTI applications
Foreigners and NRI are not allowed to do so as per government rules

07/04/2021

Under the RTI Act of 2005 any citizen of Bharat can now file online RTI application
Visit this portal rtionline.gov.in for more details