'All required basic information regarding the structure of the NCW together with details of all complaints received and acted upon, with details of action taken will be compiled and uploaded on the NCW website within 45 working days,' he said.

The CIC has also asked the NCW to pay Rs.10,000 as compensation to Batra within 15 days for the pain suffered by him because of inadequacy of record keeping by the commission.

'There is a complete lack of functional system at the NCW and they failed to furnish basic details in the past 18 months. In an order passed in August 2008, the CIC had rapped the NCW for not maintaining their files and records properly,' Batra told IANS.

The commission had then asked the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry to improve the NCW's functioning by instituting 'a regular administrative structure' for it, in accordance with the RTI Act, 2005, to maintain records. The ministry had been given 30 days to accomplish this and inform the CIC.

'To know how the order was complied with, I filed an RTI application June 12 with the WCD ministry to ascertain the compliance details of CIC order, and found it had not taken any action for nearly ten months,' Batra said.