As informed by the Central Information Commission (CIC), the details of the rejection of the RTI requests by the Public Information Officers of Central Government/Departments for the last five years are given as under:-
| Year | Total No. of RTI requests received including the carried forward of previous year. | No. of RTI requests rejected | Percentage
Rejection w.r.t total number of requests received during the year |
| 2011-12 | 7,05,976 | 52,313 | 8.30% |
| 2012-13 | 8,86,681 | 62,231 | 7.70% |
| 2013-14 | 9,62,630 | 60,127 | 7.21% |
| 2014-15 | 8,45,032 | 63,351 | 8.39% |
| 2015-16 | 11,65,904 | 64,666 | 6.62% |