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An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of Right to Information for citizens to secure information under control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Central Information Commission is a statutory body, [3] set up under the Right to Information Act in 2005 [4] under the Government of India to act upon complaints from those individuals who have not been able to submit information requests to a Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer due to either the officer not have been appointed, or because the respective ...
CIC Online is a microsite that provides a platform for the citizen of India to lodge online complaint and/or appeal under RTI Act to the Central Information Commission, an adjudicatory body for the Public Authorities under the government of India. It enables them to online check status of the petition using the Unique Identification Number.
State Information Commission has to be constituted as per The Right to Information Act, 2005 by the State Governments in India through a notification in official Gazette. [1] State Information Commission is formed to take up the following: [2] Appeals on the information shared by various government entities under the Right to Information Act.
List of Central Information Commissioners [4] No. Name Portrait Took office Left office 1 Wajahat Habibullah: 26 October 2005: 19 September 2010: 2 A. N. Tiwari: 30 September 2010: 18 December 2010: 3 Satyananda Mishra: 19 December 2010: 4 September 2013: 4 Deepak Sandhu(First women CIC) 5 September 2013: 18 December 2013: 5 Sushma Singh: 19 ...
Maharashtra State Information Commission Maharashtra India has been constituted under subsection (1) of section 15 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 of Government of India. [2] Main objective of the Commission is fulfilling the mandate assigned in the Right to Information Act, 2005.
The National Campaign for People's Right to Information demanded the Whistleblowers Protection Bill, 2011, be amended, including by a clearer definition of victimization, protection for persons other than the whistleblowers who provide relevant information, penalty for mala fide revelation of the identity of whistleblowers, a time limit for complaints and provision for filing anonymous complaints.
Commission should get annual report from various departments working in the state about complaints received under Right to Information Act, 2005 and their responses on the same. Kerala Information Commission occasionally conducts awareness programmes on implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 effectively by general public.