Right to Information Act MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Under the Right to Information framework, the State Information Commission prepares an annual report on implementation and forwards it to the State Government. The State Government then causes the report to be laid before the State Legislature. The Governor is not the direct statutory recipient of this report. The state's High Court does not receive the Commission's annual report in this administrative process. State Legislature is involved at the later laying stage, but the Commission submits the report to the State Government.

The Right to Information Act, 2005 was enacted to make public authorities more transparent and accountable, so the first statement is correct. Aruna Roy, through the wider right-to-information movement associated with the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan in Rajasthan, played a major role in building public pressure for such a law, so the second statement is also correct. The choices that accept only one statement ignore the truth of the other, and the choice rejecting both statements is plainly inconsistent with the Act’s purpose and movement history.

Under the Right to Information framework, an Information Commission can impose a penalty of ₹250 per day for delay or refusal in providing information, subject to a maximum of ₹25000. Therefore, ₹25000 is the ceiling asked in the question. Amounts such as ₹15000 and ₹20000 are below the statutory maximum and do not represent the final limit. ₹30000 exceeds the permitted maximum, so it cannot be imposed as the maximum fine for this ground by the Rajasthan State Information Commission.

Statement 1 is incorrect: the Court expressly held that ownership and financing are NOT the only tests of a public authority, relying on K.C. Sharma vs Delhi Stock Exchange. Statement 2 is correct: a division bench declared the NSE a public authority under Section 2(h) of the RTI Act because the central government and a statutory authority, SEBI, exercise deep and pervasive control over the exchange — for example, the NSE cannot function without SEBI's recognition under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. Hence only statement 2 is correct.

The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan raised the demand for access to public records in Rajasthan, especially records of famine relief works, muster rolls and payments to labourers. This movement became a major foundation for the right to information campaign in India. Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh have their own histories of social movements, but the specific MKSS-led demand over relief-work records is associated with Rajasthan. The question is therefore pointing to the Rajasthan roots of the transparency and right to information movement.