Keeping my analogy, developers do not spend the whole day at meetings, but meeting to fix bugs are not generally worth it. Also, when there is a high volume of meetings, there is likely something wrong.

I know for a fact that in the Indian Railways, people spend weeks digging up information required to answer RTI queries.

Instead of going by feelings ask government employees (preferably someone with a high level view of things) about it.

I am not saying RTI is useless. However, without a computerized infrastructure for most, if not all, protocols and processes in the government, it is just a game of cat and mouse.