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Can 4-year-old file RTI? Why Central Information Commission rejected 5 complaints filed in child's name

May 11, 2026 9:55 am

RTI by minors is permitted under the RTI Act, but valid guardianship or authorisation is necessary to pursue proceedings.

Why Allahabad High Court refused to release answer sheets of higher judicial service exam under RTI

May 04, 2026 10:30 am

The Allahabad High Court was hearing a plea against a Central Information Commission order directing the disclosure of photocopies of evaluated answer sheets of the exam, after masking all references to examiners.

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RTI disclosure isn’t ideal curiosity, it enables good governance

January 31, 2026 7:06 am

The law’s roles in exposing major scams — the Vyapam scam and the Adarsh Housing Society scam, for instance – is a testimony to its role as a governance enhancer. The Act has also been used to question the RBI during the banking scams

In 2011, then Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily flagged that the RTI Act was being “misused.” (Express Archive)

Congress slams Economic Survey’s RTI review call, but UPA ministers once raised similar concerns

January 31, 2026 3:33 am

Salman Khurshid and Veerappa Moily, in 2011, flagged the "misuse" of the law. Knowledge of several corruption scandals that occurred in the UPA years had emerged through RTI disclosures.

Priority, not officers decide appointments for Chandigarh Administrator’s Janta Darbar: RTI

November 08, 2025 12:04 am

The RTI had also sought details of minutes of all such public grievance meetings held so far under the present administrator along with a list of persons who were the attendees

20 years of RTI: Once a revolutionary mechanism of accountability, now a cautionary tale

October 13, 2025 4:19 pm

Unravelling of the RTI is not an isolated event. Parallels can be drawn with the decay of other institutions due to executive overreach. What remains is not governance through institutions, but governance through control -- an inefficient system where loyalty replaces legality, fear stands in for accountability

How a demand by rural labourers in Rajasthan led to landmark RTI Act: Back where it all started, a movement is remembered

October 13, 2025 7:28 am

The RTI Mela was held in Beawar to mark 20 years of the RTI Act. Leaders of the movement for the transparency law, which started in Rajasthan, gathered for the event, remembering the past and cautioning about the future.

Knowledge Nugget | Right to Information Act (RTI): What you must-know for UPSC Exam

August 26, 2025 12:49 pm

Recently, Delhi High Court on PM Modi degree row held that information pertaining to an individual’s educational qualifications — including degrees and marks — falls within the ambit of “personal information” under provisions of the RTI Act. What is the RTI Act? What are the public authorities exempt under it? Here's all you need to know.

Gadchiroli hosts RTI hearings for the first time since 2005 under outreach initiative

August 01, 2025 8:54 pm

Maharashtra Chief Information Commissioner Rahul Pande announced that all pending RTI appeal cases in Gadchiroli district up to 2023 have been completely resolved, achieving the goal of ‘zero pendency’ for that period.