The Right to Information (RTI) is an act from the Parliament of India which sets out the rules and procedures regarding citizens’ right to information. It replaced the former Freedom of Information Act, 2002. Public Information Officers or PIOs are officers designated by the public authorities in all administrative units or offices under it to provide information to the citizens requesting for information under the Act. Duties of PIO include: to receive application on behalf of NCW and acknowledge them with date on such requests, to assign number of request under R.T.I Act and to enter it in a register with number, to scrutinize applications and find out concerned section to whom request is to be forwarded, to forward application to the concerned department within 48 hours, to receive appeals on behalf of appellate authorities for onward submission to Appellate Authority, to compile the information with the request, certify the information while providing it to the applicant, ensure realization of requisite fee in each and every case, to ensure delivery of information to the applicants and so on.

Sajaykumar Yesodharan

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