Rules and Regulations published by the Information Commission

To ensure effective implementation of the RTI Act, the Information Commission has been authorized to issue necessary rules and regulations.

Since its operation, the Commission has issued the following rules and regulations:

Right to Information (accessing information) Rules, 2009; 


Amendment of the Right to Information (accessing information) Rules, 2009;

Right to Information (management and preservation of information) Regulations, 2010;

Information Commission (Officials and Staffs) Rules of Service, 2011;

Right to Information (publishing and publicizing information) Regulations, 2011

Right to Information (filing complaint and settlement process) Regulations, 2011.

Preserving information through classification and index system has been instructed through issuing the Right to Information (management and preservation of information) Regulations, 2010.

Guidelines to publish information pro-actively and publicizing information through media have been imparted to the government and non-governmental institutions by issuing the Right to Information (publishing and publicizing information) Regulations, 2011.

Also, the Commission has authorized Right to Information (filing complaint and settlement process) Regulations, 2011 which is being utilized as the guideline of disposing complaints of the applicants.