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The high court also asked the government to fill up the top posts of the State Information Commission by the first week of February.
Generally, it is an accepted fact that the pendency of second appeals and complaints in central and state information commissions is often over a year or two.
The ‘Report Card on the Performance of Information Commissions in India’, which was published in 2021, revealed that Maharashtra’s state information commission (SIC) registered the highest number of second appeals and complaints to the tune of 41,978, which moved up to 87,577 cases later that year and has now disastrously spiked to 1,00,43 lakh.