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.
What Indians file RTI applications about
Quick Reply: A practitioner's note on the subject-matter pattern of Right to Information applications in India: what citizens file about, where the Public Information Officer.
Practice this in 30 seconds. Use our free RTI Assistant — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place.
An evaluatory note on the subject-matter pattern of Right to Information applications in India. Drawn from the annual reports of the Department of Personnel and Training, the published reports of the Satark Nagrik Sangathan, and the case-law line at the Central Information Commission and the Supreme Court. The note is for applicants, Public Information Officers, First Appellate Authorities, and researchers who want to see where the Act works, where it stops, and why.
In one line. Indians file the largest share of their RTI applications on service matters, land records, pensions and retirement benefits, police and FIR matters, and education. The Public Information Officer typically gives a satisfactory reply on applications for the applicant's own record (service book, pension file, income tax refund, marksheet verification, FIR copy, sanction order for a specific licence). Applications that most often end up in appeal before the Commission turn on Section 8(1)(j) personal information, Section 8(1)(e) fiduciary, Section 8(1)(h) pending investigation, file notings, “no such record” refusals, and on records of political, regulatory, and judicial bodies. The 14 November 2025 amendment to Section 8(1)(j) will change the shape of the appeal volume in the next two years.
Why You Should Not Fear Personal-Information RTI Queries
Quick Reply: Got an RTI asking when you come to office, what files you signed, where you travelled, or what complaints are against you? Here is the legal framework, case law.
Practice this in 30 seconds. Use our free RTI Assistant — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place.
In one line. When an RTI application targets you personally — your attendance, the files you have signed, your tours, complaints against you — the law protects you with five layers: §8(1)(j) (personal information), §11 (third-party procedure and your right to be heard), §8(1)(g) (danger to life / safety), §8(1)(e) (service-fiduciary for evaluative data), and §8(1)(h) (ongoing investigation). You are not helpless. You are a statutory third party with the right to object.
This guide explains, for each of the four most common hostile questions, what is legally disclosable, what is not, how to respond as a third party under §11, how to guide the PIO, and what the organisation should do institutionally.
RTI Act 2005: A Decade of Change 2015-2025
Quick Reply: An evaluatory account of the Right to Information Act, 2005 as it has been altered between 2015 and 2025 — the 2019 tenure amendment, the 2020 Constitution Bench on.
Practice this in 30 seconds. Use our free RTI Assistant — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place.
An evaluatory account of how the Right to Information Act, 2005 has been altered between 2015 and 2025 by Parliament, the Supreme Court, the High Courts, the Information Commissions, and by the wider public data-protection regime. The note is for practitioners, Public Information Officers, First Appellate Authorities, Commissioners, journalists, and citizens who want a single place to follow the arc of change and its implications for day-to-day working of the Act.
In one line. Between 2015 and 2025, the Right to Information Act, 2005 has been changed by two statutes (the RTI (Amendment) Act, 2019 and the DPDP Act, 2023 in force from 14 November 2025), by one Constitution Bench judgment that redrew the line on personal information and fiduciary claims (CPIO, Supreme Court v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal, 2020), by the Supreme Court direction on filling Commission vacancies (Anjali Bhardwaj, 2019), by a line of High Court rulings on the reach of the Act into academic and regulatory records, and by the Electoral Bonds judgment (ADR v. Union of India, 2024) that re-anchored the constitutional basis of the right to know. The composition and pendency of the Central Information Commission and the State Information Commissions, and their interaction with the new personal-information regime, will shape the next decade of practice.