Annual Report 2015-16

At the third tier, the Central Information Commission has been established as
the apex appellate authority under the RTI Act 2005. An information seeker can file
a second appeal before the Central Information Commission against the order of FAA,
if he is not satisfied or does not receive an order from FAA within the specified time as
per section 19 (3) of the RTI Act.
1.6.2 Complaint
A complaint can also be filed before the Central Information Commission in certain
circumstances envisaged in Section 18 of the RTI Act, such as (i) where the Public
Authority has not appointed a CPIO or (ii) the CPIO has refused to accept an RTI
application, or (iii) the CPIO has not given a response within the specified time limit
or (iv) the CPIO has given incomplete, misleading or false information or (v) where
unreasonable fee has been demanded by CPIO.
1.7 Powers and Functions of the Central Information Commission
The RTI Act 2005 through its Sections –18, 19 and 20, prescribes the powers
and functions of the Commission in dealing with appeals, complaints and penalties
respectively.
1.7.2 Preparation of Annual Report
As per section 25 of the RTI Act, the Commission is required to prepare an Annual
Report after the end of each year on the implementation of the provisions of the Act
during that year which is to be forwarded to the appropriate Government, which, in
turn, is required to lay the report before each House of Parliament.
1.7.3 Section 25
Various clauses under Section 25 deal with preparation of the Annual Report and
submission of information to the Commission by the Public Authorities for preparation of
the Annual Reports, prescribing the contents of the Annual Report as well as bestowing
power on the Commission to make recommendations to the Public Authority so as to
bring practices of the Public Authority in consonance with the provisions and the spirit
of the RTI Act.
As per section 25(3), each report shall state in respect of the year to which the report
relates,-
(a)
(b)
the number of requests made to each Public Authority;
the number of decisions where applicants were not entitled to access to the documents
pursuant to the requests, the provisions of this Act under which these decisions were
made and the number of times such provisions were invoked;
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