1. It shall publish within one hundred and twenty days of the enactment (by end October 2005) :-

• the particulars of its organization, functions and duties;
• the powers and duties of its officers and employees;
• the procedure followed in its decision making process, including channels of supervision and accountability;
• the norms set by it for the discharge of its functions;
• the rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records used by its employees for discharging its functions;
• a statement of the categories of the documents held by it or under its control;
• the particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or representation by the members of the public, in relation to the formulation of policy or implementation thereof;
• a statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted by it. Additionally, information as to whether the meetings of these are open to the public, or the minutes' of such meetings are accessible to the public;
• a directory of its officers and employees;
• the monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including the system of compensation as provided in its regulations;
• the budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made;
• the manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated and the details and beneficiaries of such programmes;
• particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by it;
• details of the information available to, or held by it, reduced in an electronic form;
• the particulars of facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use;
• the names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information Officers

1. It must designate as many CPIO's or SPIO's in all administrative units and offices under it.
2. It must designate CAPIO's or SAPIO's at each sub-divisional level or sub-district level to receive applications or appeals
3. Submit a Annual Report to the controlling Ministry or Department, giving the following details:

• the number of requests made to each public authority;
• the number of decisions where applicants were not entitled to access to the documents pursuant to the requests, the provisions of this Act under which these decisions were made and the number of times such provisions were invoked;
• the number of appeals referred to the Central Information Commission or State Information Commission, as the case may be, for review, the nature of the appeals and the outcome of the appeals;
• particulars of any disciplinary action taken against any officer in respect of the administration of this Act;
• the amount of charges collected by each public authority under this Act;
• any facts which indicate an effort by the public authorities to administer and implement the spirit and intention of this Act;