RTI Critic

On 09 07 2009 I wrote a blog entitled RTI Requires Amendment. I was very much hopeful that the Act will be amended to make it user friendly and bring more transparency in the system. But after one and a half years the proposed amendment has come to us in the most unfortunate manner.If amended in the proposed manner, it will be as good as keeping it into dustbin. Morning shows the day. The disappointment it has generated among the RTI users/Activists is matter of grave concern for the nation which ...

Four year old journey of RTI is considerable. Undoubtedly the Act has a vast scope and better than several other equal acts of the world but has it succeeded completely in checking corruption in govt. sector ? Did it achieve its desired target? It is futile to expect that the act will make the country corruption free overnight. In a country which has about 25% population under BPL category and a large number of people centered ...