The RTI Reporter publishes important decisions of the Central Information Commission, Various High Courts as well as of the Supreme Court of India on RTI Act. The compiled judgments helps the readers understand their rights better by expanding on what sort of information they can seek from the public authorities. The Table of Cases is alphabetically arranged, which helps in searching the case by the name of the Appellant/ Complainant. The index helps the reader to go directly to cases which are under one particular section of the Act that concerns the reader. The headnotes of every case to make it easier for a reader to swiftly grasp the points of law debated and decided in that particular case.

This Act takes citizenry beyond the power of exercising their franchise; it allows the taxpayer to see what is being done with his money, giving him the chance to question Government. Laws, such as this, promote and ensure transparency and serve as a warning that the government serves the people, and not vice versa.
The citizens have a right to know how the tax payer’s money is being spent. The Right to Information Act 2005 lays down the substantive as well as procedural right to obtain this kind of information. The Act empowers every citizen to inspect and ask for copies of public records, works, and seek any information in any other form like samples, drawings, models, data material held in electronic form etc. s/he want from the government. It applies to all bodies constituted under the Constitution of India or under any other law made by Parliament and State Legislature or under any government notification including non-governmental organisations that are substantially financed by the government.