Are RTI applications and applicants a harrasment to government?

One common complaint that you hear as soon as the RTI is uttered is that the user community is a pests of sorts 'troubling and harassing' officials and even 'blackmailing' them. This, they do by filing increasingly frivolous applications. RTI activists have challenged by officials stating that these are excuses to evade replies to the RTI. "Why should an officer even get blackmailed if he has not done anything wrong?" asked Shailesh Gandhi, former central information commissioner. dna filed RTI applications with the General Administration Department (GAD) of Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which looks after the implementation of the RTI, chief minister's office and commissioner of police, Mumbai.

The information sought was from the time RTI Act was enacted and was required to bring to light all the documents on record that say RTI applications and their applicants are trouble. The GAD of Maharashtra government said that there is no information on record, in case of BMC, there were only letters from politicians to ask that RTI activists be 'reigned in.' The chief minister's office and that of the commissioner of police, also said there was no information provided.