 bill no  21 of  2018 the right to information (amendment) bill,  2018 by shri dushyant chautala, mp a bill further to amend the right to information act, 2005be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-ninth year of the republic of  india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the right to information (amendment) act, 2018short title and commencement5(2) it shall come into force on such date as central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appointamendment of section 422 of 20052 in section 4 of the right to information act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as theprinciple act), in sub-section (1),—10(a) for the words "every public authority", the words "every public authority through central public information officer or state public information officer, as the case may be," shall be substituted; and(b) in clause (b), after sub-clause (xvii), in the long line, for the words "every year", the words "every month" shall be substitutedamendment of section 183 in section 18 of the principal act, in sub-section (1), after clause (f),  the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—"(g) in respect of non-compliance and updating of publications as mentioned under section 4"5 statement of objects and reasonsthe right to information act, 2005 (rti act) is one of the highly-acclaimed welfare legislations the act seeks to "empower the citizens, promote transparency and accountability in the working of the government, contain corruption, and make our democracy work for the people in real sense"  section 4, aims to provide a structure wherein maximum information should be provided "suo motu" to the public at regular intervals through various means of communications, including internet, so that the public could resort to the use of this act to obtain informationall this was supposed to be done within one hundred and twenty days of the enactment of the rti act in 2005 with continued updates however, the same was not executedin the current scheme of the rti act, section 4 sets out obligations of public authority as an institution there is no provision to fix responsibility on any officer at the level of public authority in case of non-compliance in the case of  delhi development authority vs central information commission & others, wp no 12714/2009 hon'ble delhi high court, court observed: "section 4 merely sets out the obligations of the public authorities it doesn't provide the machinery to enforce the implementation of these obligations"even after twelve years, there has been very little progress on the proactive disclosure front it is observed that once the information is disclosed by the public authority, the same is not updated for years this makes the objectives of the act defeatedthe bill, therefore, seeks to amend the rti act, 2005 with a view to fix responsibility on the concerned public information officer to ensure that the disclosures mentioned in section 4 of the act are complied with and updated every month further, non-compliance of such disclosure shall give citizens the right to register complaint before central information commission or concerned state information commission under section 18 of the act against such information officerhence this billnew delhi;dushyant chautala30 november, 2017 annexure extract from the right to information act, 2005    4  (1) every public authority shall—obligations of public authorities(a) maintain all its records duly catalogued and indexed in a manner and the form which facilitates the right to information under this act and ensure that all records that the appropriate to be computerised are, within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources, computerised and connected through a network all over the country on different systems so that access to such records is facilitated;(b) publish within one hundred and twenty days from the enactment of this act,—    (xvii) such other information as may be prescribed;and therafter update these publications every year;    18 (1) subject to the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the central information commission or state information commission, as the case may be, to receive and inquire into a complaint from any person,—powers and functions of information commissions(a)    (b)    (c)    (d)    (e)     (f) any other matter which may be prescribed     lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the right to information act, 2005————(shri dushyant chautala, mp)gmgipmrnd—3493ls(s3)—23-01-2018