- Pending cases
- ~320000 cases pending
- insufficient resources
- justice delayed = justice denied
- Credibility
- low because govt appoints retired bureaucrats as members of information commission
- Lack of Personnel
- most information commissions are functioning with insufficient staff
- CIC has only ~25% sanctioned strength
- Delay in disposal of RTI
- waiting time of around 1yr
- Status of Annual Reports
- 19 Information commissions hasn’t filed annual reports
- Understaffing of CIC
- has only 3 members, with 8 posts vacant
- Information commission can come out with orders and impose fines but no power to get order implemented
- in >90% cases, fines not paid by concerned official