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…ant — 'Subject to the provisions of this Act, all citizens shall have the right to information.' It is the entitlement; Section 6 is the procedure; Section 8 the exceptions. The right vests in 'citize…

…at Section 4 already promises you in public. Most citizens never realise that the law has already done two-thirds of their RTI work for them. Section 4 is the part of the Right to Information Act, 200…

…is the gateway clause of the RTI Act. It says any citizen of India can make a written or electronic request to a Public Information Officer, without giving any reason, and if the office is the wrong o…

…ation fee for BPL applicants. Section 7(6) is the citizen's strongest tool: if the PIO blows the 30-day deadline, the information must be supplied without further fee. Section 7(8) says every rejectio…

…years — a testament to the protection it affords. Citizens cannot directly invoke Section 14. It is a structural safeguard, not a citizen remedy. If a Commissioner acts with bias, the remedy is a revi…

…lty on the service record can derail a promotion. Citizens who use it carefully — only where there is genuine mala fides — get faster compliance on every subsequent application to the same office. Sec…

In one line: Section 2 supplies the operative vocabulary of the Act — what counts as 'information' (2(f)), 'public authority' (2(h)), 'record' (2(i)), 'right to information' (2(j)), 'third party' (2(n…

In one line: Section 10 prevents the common PIO move of refusing a whole record because part of it is exempt. If any part can be severed, it must be disclosed. Section 10(1) requires a reasoned decisi…

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