Hyderabad, July 30 -- A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Telangana High Court has laid bare a near-total collapse of the state's online Right to Information system, with official data showing 99.48 per cent of registered public authorities do not respond to citizens through the portal (rti.telangana.gov.in).

The PIL was filed by Banappagari Vinay Reddy, a Medak-based law student, who argued the case in person. His petition draws on data he obtained through his own RTI applications to the Information Technology, Electronics and Communications Department.

According to that data, 3,323 public authorities have been added to the Telangana RTI Online Portal since its launch in December 2022, but only 17 actually use it to respond t...