2000 govt organisations to accept online RTI applications

Around 2,000 Central government organisations will soon be accepting applications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act through online medium.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has started a massive exercise to train nodal officers of all such public authorities who have not yet started accepting the RTI pleas online. In a stern directive, it has asked all the government departments to attend a workshop being organised by the DoPT in this regard “without fail”. In case, the officers concerned fail to attend the workshop, a username will be created suo-motu and all these public authorities will be made live on the RTI portal. As many as 690 public authorities have been aligned so far on the especially designed website--www.rtionline.gov.in-- to enable online filing of the RTI applications.

The DoPT had during June and July this year conducted a workshop for 330 public authorities. Of these, 51 nodal officers did not attend the workshop.

Since all the public authorities (around 2,000) will have to be aligned in a time bound manner ( a target/timeline fixed and monitored at the highest level), DoPT is organising yet another training workshop as a special drive for those defaulted public authorities and nodal officers who did not attend the workshop.