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The RTI register
Every application filed on a question in this archive, the office it went to, and the date a reply fell due. Applications appear here on the day they are filed, not the day an answer arrives, because an office that does not answer is itself a recorded fact.
Two things you can do without us
Start with the letter, then file the request.
A preservation representation tells an office, in writing, that identified records are wanted. It compels nothing, and it puts a date on the notice, which is what matters when the risk is an ordinary retention cycle rather than a refusal. Four are drafted and addressed, for Patna, Katihar, Munger and Siwan.
An RTI application comes after it, and puts a statutory clock on the same office. Anyone can file one. You do not need our permission or our involvement. Send us the reference number and it goes in the register under your name, or anonymously if you prefer.
Why an unanswered application is published
Filing an RTI puts a statutory clock on a public office. When that clock runs out without a reply, the Act treats the silence as a refusal, and the applicant gains a right of appeal.
So an application sitting 40 days overdue is not a gap in this archive. It is a recorded fact about a public office, with a date on it, and it belongs in the register exactly as much as a reply does.
What each outcome means here
- Reply received — answered on the merits. The reply is filed as evidence.
- No record held — the office says it holds nothing. Filed as evidence of what the office has said about its own files. It does not establish that no order was given.
- Refused — an exemption was claimed. The exemption cited is recorded.
- Transferred — sent on to another authority, which narrows where the record sits.
- No reply — the statutory period passed in silence.