Around 315,000 complaints are currently pending under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India. These are across 26 information commissions in India, according to a report by The Hindu (TH). The pending cases have been rising in recent years.
From 218,347 pending cases in 2019, they rose to 233,384 cases in 2020 and 314,323 in 2022. At 99,722, the highest number of pending cases was in Maharashtra. In Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, pending cases were 44,482 and 30,358 respectively.