Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
02-March-2016 15:39 IST
As per the Right to Information Act, 2005 it is mandatory on the part of
Public Information Officer either to provide the information or reject
the request for any of the reasons specified by the RTI Act within 30
days of receipt of the request. However, information concerning life or
liberty of a person has to be provided in forty-eight hours of the
receipt of request.
Similarly, as per the RTI Act, an appeal shall be disposed of within 30
days on the receipt of the appeal by the First Appellate Authority or
within such extended period not exceeding a total of 45 days from the
date of filing thereof, as the case may be, for reasons to be recorded
in writing.
The Act, however, does not prescribe time limit or target for disposal
of 2nd appeal/complaint by the Central Information Commission.
The Commission, however, on 22.03.2011 decided that each Information
Commissioner including Chief Information Commissioner will endeavour to
decide about 3200 appeals/complaints per year. During 2015, a total of
27,922 appeals/complaints were disposed off.
This was stated by Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances
and Pensions and Minister of State in the PMO Dr. Jitendra Singh in a
written reply to a question by Shri Sharad Tripathi, Shri Y.V. Subba
Reddy and Shri K.N. Ramachandran in the Lok Sabha today.
