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Although India has slipped two positions to the sixth rank in global RTI ratings released by Access info and Centre for Law and Democracy—it was ranked fourth in 2016—the Central Information Commission’s latest annual report shows that statistics are improving with a fall in the rejection rate.
The report released last week for 2019-20 shows that the rejection rate of applications in the country fell for a sixth consecutive year to 4.3%. So, of the over 1.3 million RTI requests received in 2019-20, only 58,634 were rejected. In contrast, in 2014-15, of the 755,247 requests received, 63,351 or 8.4% were
