RTI Bharat

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

Activists file complaint over illegal toll collection on Mumbai-Pune Expressway MSRDC, PWD officials named accused

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

ASI officials fined over RTI query on Taj Mahal

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,

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

NCERT's RTI reply says they have no documents to back claims on Qutab Minar made in history textbook 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

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

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...

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

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

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

States departments have their separate websites for the purpose

rtionline.gov

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

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

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

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