Ever since the Right to Information (RTI) Act was enacted, the Information Commission has been seeing a significant rise of complaints by those who are not being responded by the government organisations when contacted for information under the act. It appears that the concerned government agencies, departments or offices are not helping the complainants benefit from the much-talked-about RTI Act. Merely 104 complaints were filed with the commission in 2010, a year after the act was enacted, while the figure jumped to 540 last year. 104 out of 202 complaints were settled in 2012, whereas 207 complaints were lodged the next year, of which 90 were resolved. The complaints kept continuing an upward trend in 2015 with 336 allegations, resulting to the resolution to 67 complaints.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 02, 2017 19:30 UTC