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Mr. Kulkarni,
The RTI route is not applicable if the organization is a private one.
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New Delhi: India's private sector companies are no more exempted by the Right to information act. M.M. Ansari, information commissioner at the Central Information Commission that oversees the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, told a national daily that as long as these companies reported to a regulator or a government department, they were within the purview of the law.
The commission said the companies would not have to appoint information officers to deal with right-to-information demands the way government entities do. Applicants will route their requests through the relevant agency.
"Applicants have every right to seek information on a private company even though it is in the private sector, if it reports to a government body," said Ansari, citing sections of the Act that made this possible.