Functions
- Issue directives to public bodies for preservation, management, publication, publicity and access to information
- Prescribe the procedure for accessing information from a public body
- Provide technical and other support to the public bodies for effective enforcement of right to information
- Conduct training of the public information officers (PIOs)
- Undertake mass awareness campaign to create awareness about the Act, Rules and Regulations
- Establish an information web-portal
- Compile a user handbook in Urdu and English, containing such information in easily comprehensible form and manner as may reasonably be required by an applicant
- Compile guidelines for use by the public information officers.
- Submit to the Parliament bi-annual reports on implementation of provisions of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017.