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1 Introduction

2 Chapter I

2.1 Section I

2.2 Section 02

3 Chapter II

3.1 Section 03

3.2 Section 04

3.3 Section 05

3.4 Section 06

3.5 Section 07

3.6 Section 08

3.7 Section 09

3.8 Section 10

3.9 Section 11

4 Chapter III

4.1 Section 12

4.2 Section 13

4.3 Section 14

5 Chapter IV

5.1 Section 15

5.2 Section 16

5.3 Section 17

6 Chapter V

6.1 Section 18

6.2 Section 19

6.3 Section 20

7 Chapter VI

7.1 Section 21

7.2 Section 22

7.3 Section 23

7.4 Section 24

7.5 Section 25

7.6 Section 26

7.7 Section 27

7.8 Section 28

7.9 Section 29

7.10 Section 30

7.11 Section 31

8 The First Schedule

9 The Second Schedule

Introduction 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 Whereas the Constitution of India has established democratic Republic; And whereas democracy requires an informed citizenry and transparency of information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed; And whereas revelation of information in actual practice is likely to conflict with other public interests including efficient operations of the Governments, optimum use of limited fiscal resources and the preservation of confidentiality of sensitive information; And whereas it is necessary to harmonize these conflicting interests while preserving the paramountcy of the democratic ideal; Now, therefore, it is expedient to provide for furnishing certain information to citizens who desire to have it. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows