Section 25 – THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005

—(1) The Central Information Commission or State Information
Commission, as the case may be, shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each year, prepare a report
on the implementation of the provisions of this Act during that year and forward a copy thereof to the
appropriate Government.
(2) Each Ministry or Department shall, in relation to the public authorities within their jurisdiction,
collect and provide such information to the Central Information Commission or State Information
Commission, as the case may be. as is required to prepare the report under this section and comply with
the requirements concerning the furnishing of that information and keeping of records for the purposes of
this section.
(3) Each report shall state in respect of the year to which the report relates,—
(a) the number of requests made to each public authority;
(b) the number of decisions where applicants were not entitled to access to the documents
pursuant to the requests, the provisions of this Act under which these decisions were made and the
number of times such provisions were invoked;
(c) the number of appeals referred to the Central Information Commission or State Information
Commission, as the case may be, for review, the nature of the appeals and the outcome of the appeals;
(d) particulars of any disciplinary action taken against any officer in respect of the administration
of this Act;
(e) the amount of charges collected by each public authority under this Act;
(J) any facts which indicate an effort by the public authorities to administer and implement the
spirit and intention of this Act;
(g) recommendations for reform, including recommendations in respect of the particular public
authorities, for the development, improvement, modernisation, reform or amendment to this Act or
other legislation or common law or any other matter relevant for operationalising the right to access
information.
(4) The Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, may, as soon as practicable
after the end of each year, cause a copy of the report of the Central Information Commission or the State
Information Commission, as the case may be, referred to in sub-section (1) to be laid before each House
of Parliament or, as the case may be, before each House of the State Legislature, where there are two
Houses, and where there is one House of the State Legislature before that House.
(5) If it appears to the Central Information Commission or State Information Commission, as the case
may be, that the practice of a public authority in relation to the exercise of its functions under this Act
does not conform with the provisions or spirit of this Act, it may give to the authority a recommendation
specifying the steps which ought in its opinion to be taken for promoting such conformity.