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 1] ::(c) by any other law made by State Legislature;
 * (d) by notification issued or order made by the appropriate Government, and includes any—
 * (i) body owned, controlled or substantially financed;
 * (ii) non-Government organisation substantially financed, directly or indirectly by funds provided by the appropriate Government;
 * (i) “record” includes—
 * (a) any document, manuscript and file;
 * (b) any microfilm, microfiche and facsimile copy of a document;
 * (c) any reproduction of image or images embodied in such microfilm (whether enlarged or not); and
 * (d) any other material produced by a computer or any other device;
 * (j) “right to information” means the right to information accessible under this Act which is held by or under die control of any public authority and includes the right to—
 * (i) inspection of work, documents, records;
 * (ii) taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records;
 * (iii) taking certified samples of material;
 * (iv) obtaining information in the form of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device;
 * (k) “State Information Commission” means the State Information Commission constituted under sub-section (1) of section 15;
 * (l) “State Chief Information Commissioner” and “State Information Commissioner” mean the State Chief Information Commissioner and the State Information Commissioner appointed under sub-section (3) of section 15;
 * (m) “State Public Information Officer” means the State Public Information Officer designated under sub-section (1) and includes a State Assistant Public Information Officer designated as such under sub-section (2) of section 5;
 * (n) “third party” means a person other than the citizen making a request for information and includes a public authority.

==CHAPTER II ==

3. Subject to the provisions of this Act, all citizens shall have the right to information.

4. (1) Every public authority shall—
 * (a) maintain all its records duly catalogued and indexed in a manner and the form which facilitates the right to information under this Act and ensure that all records that are appropriate to be computerised are, within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources, computerised and connected through a network all over the country on different systems so that access to such records is facilitated;
 * (b) publish within one hundred and twenty days from the enactment of this Act,—
 * (i) the particulars of its organisation, functions and duties;
 * (ii) the powers and duties of its officers and employees;
 * (iii) the procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of supervision and accountability;
 * (iv) the norms set by it for the discharge of its functions;