The Information Commission sought for various information to the government and non-governmental organizations, such as, the situation of RTI Act implementation in the country, the number of appeals made using the Act and ratio of providing information, number of filed complaints and dispositions , the amount of fee collected from providing information, the petitions filed in the Commission and their resolutions, initiatives taken by the authority to implement the Act and the recommendations of improving the RTI Act in establishing the civil right to information.
According to the IC most of the appeals for information were made regarding land and land management issues, hospital and health care, government service, administration and legal cases, local government organizations, educational organizations, agriculture, fisheries and livestock, relief and rehabilitation, social service and social security etc.
The total number of collected applications from all over the country starting from 1st January-2011 to 31st December-2012 using the RTI Act prescribed form is 7808.
Among them, 7671 applications were submitted to the government authorities and 137 to the NGOs, which demonstrate 98.25% and 1.75% of the total collected applications successively. Out of all applications, 7616 (97.54%) appeals have been responded with the sought information, 104(1.33%) applications are pending and 88 (1.12%) applications have been discarded.
The rejected appeals are minimal in number as most of the applications have been responded with information. No case of taking action against any Designated Officer was found in any report.
However, one official has been fined tk.1000/-(One thousand) as he was proved culpable at the end of the hearing of a petition in Information Commission. Since its establishment upto 2012, the Commission has taken 44 complaints into account amongst the 104 filed complaints. 60 complaints have been discarded by the Commission as they were found faulty.
It may be mentioned that an amount of tk. 20, 15,832 has been collected from various authorities as the fee of providing information under the jurisdiction of the RTI Act, 2009. The highest amount of revenue, which is tk. 19, 89,000, has been earned the Bangladesh Public Service Commission since the initiation of the RTI Act.
On the other hand, most of the officials provided information in free of cost. The Commission would soon direct the concerned Designated Officers to judge whether the information was worth providing free of charge and take necessary measurements in future.
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