CIC Uday Mahurkar’s office sets new record, disposes of 5,056 RTI appeals

CIC Uday Mahurkar achieved a new record of clearing the maximum number of RTI applications in a year, breaking all the records of the last 16 years.

The Central Information Commissioner (CIC) Uday Mahurkar took to Twitter to share a new milestone where he stated that his court had disposed of 5056 Right to Information (RTI) appeals in 2021-22, which is the highest in a year since the enactment of the RTI Act in 2005.

Uday Mahurkar was appointed as the CIC in October 2020.

Mahurkar has achieved a new record of clearing the maximum number of RTI applications in a year and broke all the records of the last 16 years.

Mahurkar, a former journalist and author, said on Twitter that he had "passed landmark judgments without fear or favour".

Happy to share my court has disposed 5056 RTI appeals in 2021-22 which is the highest in any 1 year by a Central Information Commissioner in the 16 year history of CIC set up under RTI law in 2005. Thank CIC Shri YK Sinha, fellow commissioners & my team for their support pic.twitter.com/UPeph70J0g

In one of the judgements regarding ancient Sanskrit manuscripts, he ruled that a manuscript, whether owned by the government or private body, is a national property as even those who donated to private ones did it for saving our heritage. “Was lauded by scholars across the globe,” he tweeted.