Section 25 — Monitoring and Reporting

• 25(1): the Commission prepares the implementation report “as soon as practicable after the end of each year” and forwards it to the appropriate Government.
• 25(2): each Ministry/Department must collect and supply the data for its public authorities — and keep the records to back it.
• 25(4): the Government causes the report to be laid before each House of Parliament / the State Legislature.
• 25(5): where an authority's practice does not conform to the provisions or spirit of the Act, the Commission may recommend the steps it should take.

• (a) the number of requests made to each public authority;
• (b) the number of refusals, the provisions invoked (which §8 clauses, how many times);
• © appeals to the Commission — nature and outcome;
• (d) disciplinary action taken against officers over the Act's administration;
• (e) the amount of charges and fees collected;
• (f) facts indicating effort to administer the Act's spirit;
• (g) recommendations for reform.

• Research the counterparty: an RTI for the department's §25(2) data — requests received, refusals with provision-wise counts, appeals lost, penalties — maps how an office actually behaves. A department refusing everything under §8(1)(d) shows up in its own numbers.
• Pattern complaints: refusal statistics feed a §18 complaint about a *practice*, not just one order — the §25(5) conformity power backs exactly that framing.
• Annual reports as reference: CIC annual reports are published on cic.gov.in; they carry the national picture and reform recommendations.
• Ask for the laid copy: the report laid before Parliament is public record; ask the ministry's PIO for it.

The text says “as soon as practicable after the end of each year” (§25(4)) — not a fixed 12-month deadline; delays are common and visible.

Yes — it is exactly the §25(2) data the department must maintain; ask provision-wise for the last year.

It is a formal Commission recommendation directed at a practice; citing a pending or past 25(5) recommendation in an individual appeal shows systemic recognition of the defect.

Yes — the same section applies: SIC report → State Government → laid before the state legislature.

• Section 18 — Complaints
• Section 19 — Appeals
• Section 27 — Rule-making
• The RTI Act, 2005 — current text
• All explanations
• The RTI Playbook book

1. Right to Information Act, 2005, Section 25.
2. CIC annual reports (cic.gov.in).

Last reviewed on: 27 August 2026. Misattributed case citation dropped; the invented 12-month laying deadline corrected to the statutory wording; the s.25(5) conformity power and citizen-use sections added.