Right to Information Wiki Blog
Quick Reply: RTI Wiki blog — analysis, case-law summaries, and citizen guides on Right to Information Act 2005.
Latest RTI decision notes
- 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.
8 ways a single citizen's RTI changed a system
Quick Reply: Eight playbooks where one citizen's RTI moved a whole system — beneficiary lists, tenders, wage arrears, OMR sheets. What worked, and why the combination wins.
Eight playbooks that keep showing up when a single citizen's RTI moves a whole system — from PMAY beneficiary lists to municipal tenders.
*Editorial note, 27 August 2026: an earlier version of this post presented these as eight specific 2025 cases with figures attached. Those specific numbers and attributions could not be verified against primary sources, so this version presents the mechanisms — which are real and repeatable — without the unverifiable specifics.*
- MGNREGA wage arrears — ask for the panchayat's muster rolls beside the wage-credit reconciliation. Arrears surface as days worked with no matching payment; the social-audit format makes the gap impossible to wave away.
- Municipal tender over-billing — ask for the comparative bid chart, the note rejecting the lowest bidder, and the payment register. One application, three records, and the paper trail either reconciles or it does not.
- PMAY-G ghost beneficiaries — ask the BDO for the sanctioned-beneficiary list cross-checked against geo-tagged completion photographs. A house on the list with no geo-tag is a follow-up question.
- School fee hikes — parent associations ask for the audited accounts and the fee-approval file. Once the numbers are on the table, negotiations stop being about trust.
- Housing allotment irregularities — ask for the full allotment list with waitlist movement and the cancellation register. Selective allotment shows up as a pattern, not an anecdote.
- Mining royalty evasion — ask for royalty returns set against weighbridge dispatch logs. Extraction that left no royalty trail is visible in the mismatch.
- Recruitment manipulation — ask for OMR sheets and answer keys. Many recruitment bodies now publish them, and where they do not, the refusal itself is appealable.
- Hospital drug stock-outs — ask for the PHC stock register and the indent-versus-supply statement. Chronic stock-outs show up as indents with no supply against them.
The pattern: specific RTI + media + judicial follow-up is more effective than RTI alone. Citizens combining all three are winning.
Passport Verification Report to be disclosed under RTI
Quick Reply: An adverse police verification report (PVR) can stall or sink a passport — and the applicant often never sees it. The Central Information Commission has directed disclosure of the PVR to the applicant it concerns: the report is information about you, held by a public authority, and seeing it is the precondition to answering it. The order below is the anchor; the ask-format follows.
RTI replies on public-authority websites
Quick Reply: Public authorities are directed to proactively disclose RTI applications, appeals and the responses on their websites — with keyword search — under §4(2) read with DoPT O.M. No.1/6/2011-IR dated 15 April 2013. Personal-information disclosures that serve no public interest are excluded. Practical upshot: someone may already have asked your question — the disclosed reply is free research before you ever pay ₹10.