NEW DELHI: Every day 4,800 applications are filed to access information from the government across India. The first decadal study conducted after Right to Information (RTI) Act implemented in October 2005 has revealed that over 1.75 crore applications have been filed with one-fourth being requests to the Centre.
A study conducted by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), exclusively accessed by ET, reveals that 27.2% (47.66 lakh) of the total RTIs filed between 2005 and 2015 were to the different ministries and departments under the Centre.
Maharashtra finishes a close second with 26.40% (46.26 lakh) of the applications being submitted in the same time period.
Karnataka government received 11.83% (20.73 lakh) applications. The top three – Centre, Maharashtra and Karnataka governments – received two-thirds or 65.43% of the RTI applications filed by Indians in the last 10 years.
The data attains significance as there is no official record of the total number of RTI applications received in India even as RTI Act enters its 12th year of implementation on October 12.
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