The Transparency Ledger
A running record of the concrete ways the state's own systems fail your right to know — broken portals, dead links, documents you can't read, information that should be public and isn't. Every entry is a fact we observed, with the evidence. And every one has the same legal remedy: an RTI.
How the system fails
You cannot search India's Forest Clearances at all
PARIVESH — the government's single-window portal for environment and forest clearances — returns a database error for every Forest Clearance search. Which forests are being cleared, for which projects, is effectively unsearchable by the public.
Evidence: The server responds with an internal fault — “JDBC exception executing SQL … master.proponent_applications …” — instead of results.
Demand this via RTI →Who won each contract is not published
Section 4(1)(b) of the RTI Act requires every authority to proactively publish the contracts it awards and to whom. On most bodies' own portals, the winner and the final amount are simply absent — you must file an RTI to learn who received public money.
Evidence: Across the bodies archived here, award/result documents are missing from the tender records.
Demand this via RTI →17 published documents no longer open
These are files the government itself published, but whose links now return an error on the government's own servers — so the record is effectively gone, even though it was once public.
Evidence: 17 documents in the archive fail to download from their original source URL.
Demand this via RTI →