The report released last week for 2019-20 shows that the rejection rate of applications in the country fell for a sixth consecutive year to 4.3%. So, of the over 1.3 million RTI requests received in 2019-20, only 58,634 were rejected. In contrast, in 2014-15, of the 755,247 requests received, 63,351 or 8.4% were rejected.
However, the report also shows that the number of RTI requests have been piling up in the last few years. While there were 89,785 applications that remained unaddressed by 2014-15, this rose to 188,538 in 2015-16. This, as per the CIC report, has further increased to 310,110. Meanwhile, CIC’s average rate of answering requests has been 72-73%.
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