panaji the level of compliance by officials to orders of the information commission under the right to information rti act in goa is 33 arvind kejriwal magasaysay award winner and social activist said on thursday kejriwal was speaking at one of the series of programmes organized by the state art and culture department to mark the birth centenary celebrations of bhausaheb bandodkarkejriwal said that his ngo parivartan analysed 52000 queries sent under the rti act in the year 2008 from across the country he noted that while in 32000 of these cases the information commissions had ruled that applicants should be provided information only 39 of these applicants were actually provided the information satisfactorilykejriwal however said that in goa the compliance was much lower at just 33 we analysed 254 orders of the state information commission in goa and in 158 of the cases the commission had ruled that information should be provided to the applicantbut the actual compliance was only 33 and in only 25 of cases where the information was not provided a showcause notice was issued by the commission responding to a query during the question and answer session kejriwal said that a common forum should be set up by rti activists in goa to address problems of noncompliance to rti queries and also suggested that the information commissioner in goa should be convinced by the activists to hear out the general public once a month such meetings will help point to the common problems faced in the use of rti as an effective tool the former bureaucrat saidkejriwal said that the next step after the effective use of rti was the formation of lokayukta in the states as totally independent bodies from the government to check corruptionlokayukta is supposed to be independent of the government should be transparent and accountable should complete inquiries in a time bound manner and its officials should not be appointed by political elects kejriwal said he enlightened the audience on the provision of section 18 3 of the rti act which enables the information commissioner to issue arrest warrants against officials who do not comply with orders by the commission