40,000 RTI appeals disposed of in a year: Karnataka information commissioner

The Karnataka Information Commission has disposed of a record 40,000 Right to Information (RTI) appeal cases in the past one year, the highest in India, according to B. Venkat Singh, Commissioner of the Kalaburagi bench of the commission.

On April 18, he inaugurated a workshop on the RTI Act organised jointly by the Karnataka Information Commission (Kalaburagi bench) and the district administration at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Kalaburagi for district, taluk and gram panchayat PDOs.