Right to Information Act, 2005

Submit RTI Request / Submit RTI First Appeal

Days to reply

₹10

Fee, or free if BPL

This is a portal to file RTI applications/first appeals online along with payment gateway. Payment can be made through internet banking, debit/credit cards of Master/Visa, RuPay cards and UPI. Through this portal, RTI applications/first appeals can be filed by Indian Citizens for all Ministries/Departments and other Public Authorities of Central Government.

Please read instructions carefully while submitting request/appeal.

What it covers

Pension
Provident fund
Land records
Police / FIR
Ration & PDS
Passport
Electricity
Municipal
Water
Income tax
Transport
Health

Twenty domains, hand-curated. Central and State.

01Why applications fail/ 05

Most applications fail for the same few reasons

Sent to an office that does not hold the records, or asking a question nobody is obliged to answer. Either one costs weeks.

State Government Notice

Please do not file RTI applications through this portal for the public authorities under the State Governments, including Government of NCT Delhi. If filed, the application would be returned, without refund of amount.

Second Appeal Notice

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has integrated its Second Appeal Filing Portal with the DoPT RTI Online Portal. Now, while submitting a Second Appeal, the system will automatically retrieve related details of the RTI Application.

Maintenance Notice

System will not be available on 30-8-2026 (Friday) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM due to maintenance activity. Inconvenience caused is highly regretted.

02The queue/ 05

You are one of lakhs waiting

More requests arrive than offices can answer. Getting the office and the wording right the first time is the part of the wait you control.

≈53 lakh

RTI applications filed every year

Central and State public authorities combined

4 lakh+

Appeals pending before Information Commissions

29 commissions, as on 30 June 2025

31 months

Typical wait for an appeal to be heard

Longest reported backlog runs to decades

7 of 29

Commissions defunct for part of the year

Report Card on Information Commissions

Figures from Satark Nagrik Sangathan's Report Card on Information Commissions and Central Information Commission annual reports.

03The right office/ 05

We find the office that holds the records

What you describe is matched against a directory of public authorities, so the request does not have to be passed on — which would start your 30 days again.

04The wording/ 05

Ask for records, not explanations

An office has to hand over records it already holds. It does not have to explain itself. So your question is rewritten as a request for the documents.

Likely to be refused

“Why was my father's pension stopped without any notice? This is completely unfair and someone needs to explain what happened.”

Nobody has to explain themselves to you. The Act only makes an office hand over records it already holds, so a question phrased like this can be turned down.

They have to answer this

A certified copy of the order discontinuing pension against PPO No. MH/BAN/00123456.
All file notings relating to that discontinuation.
The name and designation of the officer who approved it.

This asks for documents the office already has. To turn it down they have to name one of the exemptions in the Act and say so in writing.

05The deadlines/ 05

Thirty days to reply, thirty more to appeal

No reply within 30 days counts as a refusal, and you can appeal free of charge for the next 30. We watch both dates for you.

Second appeals can now be filed from the same place as your original request.

Details from your RTI application are carried over, so you do not type them twice.

From Monday, every request is confirmed by a code sent to your email.

That keeps your details from being used by anyone else.

Nothing else about filing changes.

Being straight with you

What this does, and what it does not

It writes the application and tells you where to send it. It does not send it for you, and it is not connected to any government system.

What this can and cannot do

It takes one paragraph to start

No account to create and no forms to hunt through. Write one paragraph and we will do the rest.