Chennai, Oct 21 (PTI) National RTI Awards Secretariat, a non-governmental initiative which has undertaken independent ranking of Information Commissions in the country, has ranked Karnataka Information Commission at the top with a score of 55 per cent of Overall Public Satisfaction (OPS), arrived at after analysing different parameters.

Madhav Vishnubhatta, speaking on behalf of Tamil Nadu Right to Information Campaign, a collective of various organisations working in the spehere of RTI, said the study was based on the feedback of 6,000 of nearly 35,000 respondents and analysing decisions of various Information Commissions.

More than 51,000 orders passed by Information Commissioners in 2008 were analysed but that did not include Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim, he told reporters here.

"Uttar Pradesh did not provide copies of their orders saying they dont have them while Tamil Nadu which claimed to have passed more than 40,000 orders, provided us with copies of only 900 orders.