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Performance of Information Commissions in India
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- The ‘Report Card on the Performance of Information Commissions in India, 2022-23’ was released recently.
- A total of 3,21,537 appeals and complaints are pending in 27 State Information Commissions across the country.
- The maximum number of pending appeals was in Maharashtra (1,15,524), followed by Karnataka (41,047).
- Tamil Nadu declined to provide the information.
- Four Information Commissions — Jharkhand, Telangana, Mizoram and Tripura — are defunct as no new Information Commissioners were appointed upon incumbents demitting office.
- Six state Information Commissions are currently headless.
- West Bengal State Information Commission (SIC) would take an estimated 24 years and one month to dispose a matter.
- In Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, the estimated time taken by SICs for disposing of an appeal or complaint is over four years.
- In Odisha and Arunachal Pradesh, it is over two years.
- October 12, 2023 marks 18 years of implementation of the RTI Act in India.
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