In a reply to our RTI on blocked websites, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) revealed the number of blocking orders issued in the following years:
2010 – 9
2011- 21
2012- 362
2013- 62
2014- 471
2015- 500
2016- 633
2017- 1385
2018- 2799
2019- 3635
2020 – 9849
2021 – 6096
2022 – 1582 (till March)
