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1. Right to
Information Act,
2005
Group Members
Himanshu bhatt
Gaurav Bhandari
Vikas Sharma
Ashish
Gurutav
Bhavya

2. RTI

1. An Act to provide right to information for citizens to
secure access to information under the 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
for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

3. Objectives
 At its core, the RTI Act is designed to
transform the way governance operates. Its
objectives are clear: to promote
transparency in the workings of public
authorities, to reduce corruption by
exposing wrongdoing, and to enable a more
informed citizenry that actively participates
in the democratic process.

4. section 2f

any material in any form including records,
documents, memos, s, opinions, advises, press
releases, circulars, orders, log books, contracts,
reports, papers, data material held in any electronic
form and information relating to any private body
which can be accessed by a public authority

5.  Records (section 2i)
 Any documents, manuscripts and file
Any copy of a document
Any other materials produced by the computer or any other devices
Appropriate government means
in relation to a public authority which is established, constituted, owned,
controlled or substantially financed by central or state government

7. Public authority means
 Any authority or body or institution of self- government
established or constituted—(a) by or under the
Constitution;(b) by any other law made by Parliament;
(c) by any other law made by State Legislature;(d) by
notification issued or order made by the appropriate
Government, and includes any—(i) body owned,
controlled or substantially financed;(ii) non-
Government organization substantially financed,
directly or indirectly by funds provided by the
appropriate Government

8. Right to information and obligations
of public authorities
 Subject to the provisions of this Act, all citizens shall
have the right to information. Every public authority
shall—(a) maintain all its records duly catalogued and
indexed in a manner and the form which facilitates
the right to information under this Act and ensure
that all records that are appropriate to be
computerised are, within a reasonable time and
subject to availability of resources, computerised and
connected through a network all over the country on
different systems so that access to such records is
facilitated;

9.  (b) publish within one hundred and twenty days from the enactment
of this Act,—the particulars of its organization, functions and duties;
the powers and duties of its officers and employees;
the procedure followed in the decision making process, including
channels of supervision and accountability;
the norms set by it for the discharge of its functions
the rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by it
or under its control or used by its employees for discharging its
functions;
a statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or
under its control;

10. SALIENT FEATURES OF RTI
ACT, 2005
 Under its provision, any citizen of India may request
information from a public authority. The required
information needs to be replied to within 30 days.
 The request for the information on any issue from
the public authority is required to be submitted to
the Public Information officer at the center or in the
State.
 The RTI Act promotes every government body to
make their offices transparent by computerizing their
records for the wide dissemination of the information
for the public.
 The Jammu and Kashmir will not come under this RTI
Act 2005. However, it has a separate Right to
Information Act 2009.

11.  The restrictions imposed by the Official Secrets Act 1923 were relaxed by the
RTI Act.
 The Act has established a three-tier structure for enforcing the right to
information guaranteed under the Act.
 The three Levels are – Public Information Officer, First Appellate Authority, and
Central Information Commission (CIC).
 The information is to be submitted within 30 days from the date of receipt of
the application

12. PREAMBLE OF
THE ACT
To provide setting out the practical regime of
Right to Information for citizens.
To secure access to information under the
control of public Authorities.
To promote Transparency and Accountability
in working of public authority.
To constitute Central and State Information
Commissions
Constitution establish democratic Repblic.

13.  Democracy requires an informed citizenry and Transparency of information.
 To Contain Corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities
accountable to the governed.
 Enacted in the Fifty-sixth year of the Republic of India.

14. Case Study
 Just two months after RTI came into force, Hitender Jain, who runs Resurgent
India, an NGO based in Ludhiana, set about investigating how public officials
in the Indian Red Cross Society, a statutory body, were squandering money
meant for the Kargil war relief and rehabilitation of those hit by natural
disasters.

Twenty-six applications revealed that Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
officers had siphoned off relief and rehabilitation funds worth millions of
rupees to buy cars, expensive mobile phones, furniture, air conditioners,
refrigerator, and pay for petrol, telephone bills, mobile phone bills, hotel and
restaurant bills, crockery, furnishings, LPG cylinder refills, and nappies.

15.  Ten years on, Jain recalled how tough it was to get a response from the
officials who were also dealing with RTI applications for the first time.
"Pressures started coming in from the district administration not to press for
information but I was firm. All efforts were made to make me meet the
Deputy Commissioner, which I refused," he said.
 The law requires information to be furnished in a month, but it took almost
19 months since Jain filed the first application for information to start
trickling in. Eventually, he had to channel his skills as a chartered account to
pore over 4,511 pages of government documents.

16.  Thank you