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20 years of the RTI Act
October 19 , 2025
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- The Right to Information (RTI) Act completes 20 years since its implementation in 2005.
- The Right to Information (RTI) Act was enacted on 12 October 2005 to ensure transparency and accountability in governance.
- The RTI law emerged from grassroots activism led by the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and public hearings in Rajasthan during the 1990s.
- The movement led to several state-level RTI laws before the national law was passed by Parliament on 12 May 2005.
- The RTI Act recognises the right to information as part of the right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 of the Constitution.
- Over 1.75 million RTI applications were filed in 2023–24, double the number from a decade ago, but with a record 67,615 rejections.
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