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Hyderabad
The Telangana State Information Commission (TGIC), since its enactment successful May 2025, has disposed disconnected 14,434 cases till May 28 this year, leaving 10,996 cases pending. The Commission is presently disposing of astir 1,200 cases each month.
According to authoritative figures, the Commission inherited 11,973 pending appeals and 5,835 complaints arsenic of May 9, 2025. Including caller cases received implicit the past year, the full caseload stood astatine 25,430. Nearly 1,100 aged appeals and complaints pending betwixt 2014 and 2021 were disposed of connected precedence basis.
State Chief Information Commissioner (RTI) Chandrasekhar Reddy and Information Commissioners Borreddy Ayodhya Reddy, P.V. Srinivas, and Deshala Bhoopal paid a courtesy sojourn connected Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected completing 1 twelvemonth successful office, wherever they briefed the Chief Minister connected the activities and functioning of the RTI Commission.
Officials said the Commission interacted with astir 30,000 appellants, Public Information Officers (PIOs), Assistant Public Information Officers (APIOs), and First Appellate Authorities (FAAs) during hearings successful the past 1 year.
To amended consciousness connected the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Commission conducted consciousness camps successful 20 districts and Hyderabad city, involving authorities officials and stakeholders. Around 10,000 participants attended these programmes.
In different important development, expenditure audits of the Commission were conducted for the archetypal clip since its inception. The Commission besides prepared yearly reports from 2014 to 2023 and placed printed and integer copies earlier some Houses of the Legislature, clearing a astir decade-long backlog.
Officials stated that the Commission had remained non-functional for agelong periods since Telangana’s enactment connected June 2, 2014. There was nary Commission astatine each for much than 3 years until September 2017, portion the assemblage functioned with lone 2 members betwixt September 2017 and February 2020.
The station of Chief Information Commissioner remained vacant since September 2022 for astir 2 years and 8 months, and determination were nary Commissioners since February 2023 until the contiguous Commission took charge.
