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The Karnataka Information Commission is committed to ensuring that citizens person accusation successful a transparent and time-bound mode nether the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Information Commissioner B. Venkata Singh said.
Addressing a property league successful Hosapete connected Saturday aft inaugurating an RTI consciousness store and enactment programme for officials and Public Information Officers, Mr. Singh said specified workshops were being organised to wide doubts and misconceptions among authorities officials and facilitate easier entree to accusation for citizens. The programme was organised with the enactment of the territory administration.
Sharing details of the commission’s performance, Mr. Singh said the disposal of RTI appeals and complaints had accelerated importantly aft the assignment of caller commissioners. He said that erstwhile six commissioners assumed bureau successful February 2025, astir 56,000 cases were pending earlier the commission. Within a year, astir 40,000 cases had been disposed of, marking a important achievement.
The Commissioner said a peculiar thrust launched betwixt March and December to wide aged cases pending from 2010 to 2020 had yielded encouraging results, with astir 75% of specified cases being disposed of. Hearings are present being taken up for cases filed during 2023 and 2024, helium added.
Referring to the Kalaburagi Bench, which has jurisdiction implicit Raichur, Kalaburagi, Ballari, Vijayanagara, Yadgir, Koppal and Bidar districts, Mr. Singh said determination were 6,200 pending cases erstwhile helium assumed charge. Since commencing hearings connected November 24, 2025, the Bench has taken up 3,537 cases during 101 sitting days and disposed of 1,548 cases, enabling applicants to get the accusation sought.
Mr. Singh said the committee was taking a strict presumption of officials who failed to furnish accusation wrong the stipulated period. During the past 101 days, penalties amounting to ₹4.33 lakh had been imposed connected erring officials. In addition, compensation totalling ₹38,000 had been awarded to applicants who suffered nonaccomplishment of clip and wealth owed to delays successful receiving information.
Providing district-wise figures of pending cases nether the Kalaburagi Bench, helium said Raichur accounted for 2,337 pending applications, followed by Kalaburagi (1,318), Ballari (835), Koppal (650), Vijayanagara (611), Yadgir (580) and Bidar (400).
Mr. Singh said that the RTI consciousness store had already been conducted successful Bidar, Ballari, Koppal and Kalaburagi districts, with Vijayanagara becoming the 5th territory to big the programme. Similar workshops would soon beryllium organised successful Raichur and Yadgir districts to fortify the effectual implementation of the RTI Act, helium added.
State Information Commissioners K. Badruddin and Harish Kumar of the Bengaluru Bench, and Additional Deputy Commissioner P.N. Lokesh were contiguous astatine the property conference.
