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RTI-Bench: A Structured Dataset for Indian Right-to-Information Decision Analysis

Joy Bose

RTI-Bench supplies the first structured collection of Indian Central Information Commission decisions with outcome labels and exemption details.

arxiv:2605.16843 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.CL

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To the best of our knowledge it is the first publicly released structured dataset for Indian RTI administrative decisions.

C2weakest assumption

That rule-based extraction plus manual review on a 50-case sample produces sufficiently accurate and representative labels across the full 298-PDF collection despite only 51% coverage in the first release.

C3one line summary

RTI-Bench is the first publicly released structured dataset of CIC administrative decisions with outcome labels, exemption citations, IRAC reasoning, and timelines, built from 1,218 corpus cases and 298 PDFs, achieving 95.3% label precision on manual review and 57.3% accuracy on a Mistral 7B zero-Sh

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[1] Annual Report 2021-22 2022

[2] Satija, N. (2021). Over 32,000 RTI appeals pending with Central Information Commission. Hindustan Times, December 16, 2021. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/over-32-000-rti-appeals-pending-wi 2021

[3] K., Ghosh, K., Guha, S 2021

[4] K., Sharma, A., Khanna, D., Shallum, N., Ghosh, K., & Bhattacharya, A 2024

[5] Pal, A. (2022, December). Deepparliament: A legal domain benchmark & dataset for parliament bills prediction. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Unimodal and Multimodal Induction of Linguistic Structur 2022

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arxiv: 2605.16843 · arxiv_version: 2605.16843v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16843 · pith_short_12: Y573BBBUW5Q4 · pith_short_16: Y573BBBUW5Q4MRIM · pith_short_8: Y573BBBU

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