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The Right to Information Act, 2005 - RTI, 2005 Cheat Sheet by

An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

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ACT DETAILS

Short Title
The Right to Inform­ation Act, 2005
Act Year
2005
Act Number
22
Ministry
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department
Department of Personnel and Training
Long Title
An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to inform­ation for citizens to secure access to inform­ation under the control of public author­ities, in order to promote transp­arency and accoun­tab­ility in the working of every public authority, the consti­tution of a Central Inform­ation Commission and State Inform­ation Commis­sions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Enactment Date
15-06-2005
Enforc­ement Date
Ss. 4(1), 5(1) (2), 12, 13, 15, 16, 24, 27, 28 (15-06­-2005) and rest provisions on 120th day of its enactment.
Chapters(6)
I-VI
Sections(31)
1-31
Schedules(2)
1-2
RTI Act - English
सूचना का अधिकार अधिनियम, 2005

CHAPTERS

CHAPTER
CHAPTER TITLE
SECTIONS
I
PRELIM­INARY
1-2
II
RIGHT TO INFORM­ATION AND OBLIGA­TIONS OF PUBLIC AUTHOR­ITIES
3-11
III
THE CENTRAL INFORM­ATION COMMISSION
13-14
IV
THE STATE INFORM­ATION COMMISSION
15-17
V
POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE INFORM­ATION COMMIS­SIONS, APPEAL AND PENALTIES
18-20
VI
MISCEL­LANEOUS
21-31

Landmark Judgements

Sr.No.
Case
Particular
Link
1
State of U.P. v. Raj Narain (1975)
The court acknow­ledged that the fundam­ental right to freedom of speech and expres­sion, as protected by Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Consti­tution, includes the right to inform­ation. According to the court, citizens have a right to know about government operat­ions, as this is essential to a functi­oning democracy.
2
Central Public Inform­ation Officer v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal (2019)
The 5-judge consti­tution bench, consisting of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ, NV Ramana, Dr. DY Chandr­achud, Deepak Gupta, and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ, held in Central Public Inform­ation Officer v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal, 2019 SCC OnLine SC 1459, that the Chief Justice of India's office falls under the purview of the Right to Inform­ation.
 

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER TITLE
PRELIM­INARY
SECTION
PARTICULAR
1
Short title, extent and commen­cement.
2
Defini­tions

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER TITLE
RIGHT TO INFORM­ATION AND OBLIGA­TIONS OF PUBLIC AUTHOR­ITIES
SECTION
PARTICULAR
3
Right to inform­ation
4
Obliga­tions of public author­ities
5
Design­ation of Public Inform­ation Officers
6
Request for obtaining inform­ation
7
Disposal of request
8
Exemption from disclosure of inform­ation
9
Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases
10
Severa­bility
11
Third party inform­ation

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER TITLE
THE CENTRAL INFORM­ATION COMMISSION
SECTION
PARTICULAR
12
Consti­tution of Central Inform­ation Commission
13
Terms of office and conditions of service
14
Removal of Chief Inform­ation Commis­sioner or Inform­ation Commis­sioner

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER TITLE
THE STATE INFORM­ATION COMMISSION
SECTION
PARTICULAR
15
Consti­tution of State Inform­ation Commission
16
Term of office and conditions of service
17
Removal of State Chief Inform­ation Commis­sioner or State Inform­ation Commis­sioner

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER TITLE
POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE INFORM­ATION COMMIS­SIONS, APPEAL AND PENALTIES
SECTION
PARTICULAR
18
Powers and functions of Inform­ation Commis­sions
19
Appeal
20
Penalties

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER TITLE
MISCEL­LANEOUS
SECTION
PARTICULAR
21
Protection of action taken in good faith
22
Act to have overriding effect
23
Bar of jurisd­iction of courts
24
Act not to apply to certain organi­sations
25
Monitoring and reporting
26
Approp­riate Government to prepare programmes
27
Power to make rules by approp­riate Government
28
Power to make rules by competent authority
29
Laying of rules
30
Power to remove diffic­ulties
31
Repeal
 

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