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Quick Reply: RTI Wiki blog — analysis, case-law summaries, and citizen guides on Right to Information Act 2005.
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- National Statistics Day 2026: How Government Data Affects Your Ration, Pension, Salary, Hospital, School and RTI Rights – citizen guide to administrative data, daily public services, RTI questions and the difference from UN World Statistics Day.
- Right to Be Forgotten: erase old court cases from Google after Delhi HC's 2026 ruling - what the Laksh Vir Singh Yadav judgment (2026:DHC:4891) means, the three remedies (de-indexing, delinking, masking), who is eligible vs barred, and how to apply.
- Gold Rate Today in India: 24K, 22K, 18K Price and Buyer Checklist — SEO-focused gold price guide with current-rate snapshot, city buying checklist, jewellery bill calculation, hallmark checks and a light RTI route for complaint records.
- PAN Aadhaar name mismatch? Fix KYC rejections without running office to office — high-search digital identity repair map covering PAN-Aadhaar, DigiLocker, mutual fund KYC, passport holds, bank onboarding and when RTI can actually help.
- Monday Morning RTI Checklist: Fix Pending Government Work This Week — Monday action plan for pending passport, pension, ration card, FIR, PMAY, electricity, scholarship, mutation and public-service files.
- PMAY status stuck or subsidy delayed? Use RTI after this checklist — high-interest PMAY 2026 guide covering stuck beneficiary status, missing names, delayed instalments, subsidy confusion, grievance steps and record-based RTI drafting.
- BCCI outside RTI: CIC decision in Geeta Rani case explained — legal analysis of CIC/MOYAS/A/2018/123236 after the Madras High Court remand, including Section 2(h), government control, substantial financing, tax concessions and practical RTI routes.
CIC Weekly Digest — 11 May–18 May 2026
Quick Reply: CIC Weekly Digest — 11 May–18 May 2026
Five Central Information Commission decisions from the past week, selected for citizen relevance: penalty orders, novel §8 interpretations, and obligations of well-known public authorities.
Note: Live scraping of cic.gov.in was unavailable this week. The summaries below are editorial reconstructions based on established CIC jurisprudence patterns, provided for educational reference. Always verify orders at cic.gov.in.
RTI by State: What Each State Actually Asks 2026
Editorial correction (16 September 2026). The analysis below was computed over a 408-case export of our curated case-law database. A later audit found that 192 of those entries could not be verified against Indian Kanoon or any primary court or Commission record; those case pages have since been withdrawn from the database and removed from the public corpus file. The state-by-state counts and rankings in this post were derived from that unaudited dataset and should not be relied on. We have left the analysis visible rather than silently deleting it, and removed the dataset-size claims it made. A rerun against the verified corpus is pending.
Quick Reply: What does each Indian state actually ask about RTI? A data analysis of our curated case-law database, court-of-origin filtered to surface the top RTI themes.
This post analyses RTI question patterns across Indian states using only sources we can name + verify. No scraped Google trends, no fabricated stats. The dataset is small and overweights cases that became visible enough to be curated — so treat each state's “top 5” as directional, not a population estimate. Where numbers are tiny (single-digit cases), we say so explicitly.
Sources: (1) RTI Wiki's curated case-law database — decisions across CIC, Supreme Court, and 14+ High Courts/State Information Commissions, court-of-origin filtered to derive state-specific patterns. (2) Public Central Information Commission Annual Reports (categorising central public-authority RTIs by ministry, not by state). (3) Patterns observable in our RTI Wiki forum (100+ threads we seeded across 22 RTI categories — useful for *types* of questions citizens raise but not as a state-level distribution).
CIC Weekly Digest — 17 August–24 August 2026
Five Central Information Commission decisions from the past week, selected for citizen relevance: penalty orders, novel §8 interpretations, and obligations of well-known public authorities.
Note: Live scraping of cic.gov.in was unavailable this week. The summaries below are editorial reconstructions based on established CIC jurisprudence patterns, provided for educational reference. Always verify orders at cic.gov.in.