Orissa High Court Launches Online RTI Portal In Compliance With Supreme Court Direction

The Orissa High Court on Wednesday launched the ‘Online RTI Portal’ of the Court. The Registry notified that citizens may register themselves on the RTI Portal to obtain information under the Right to Information Act, 2005 by visiting the website of the High Court. The Standard Operating Procedure and Guidelines for use of the portal can be accessed here.

Last month, the Supreme Court had directed all the High Courts to set up online RTI Portals within three months, if they had not done so already. The direction was passed by a Bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala in the plea seeking mechanism to set up an online portal for e-filing RTI applications and first appeals in High Courts.

While dictating the order, CJI DY Chandrachud had remarked:

"Section 6(1) of RTI, 2005 states that a person who desires to get information under the act shall do so via an application physically or through electronic means. This provision indicates that RTI applicant has a statutory right to move application by electronic means. Though the RTI Act came in 2005, online web portals are still to be operationalised by some of the High Courts after 17 years."

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