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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Right To Information Act...

One in these days I was reading about one of the most recent and important right of the citizens of India i.e. The Right To Information Act.
A common man, while dealing with Government departments was facing with problems such as cumbersome process, faulty procedure, mismanagement of records, uneasiness even in paying govt taxes to the govt.With a view to bring transparency in the functioning, to create a sense of responsibility amongst the govt. officials right from grass root level up to the top decision making level, to uproot the corruption ,THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, is in force, which is likely to be proved a very useful tool in the hands of citizens to get their grievances against the govt. redressed , in a time bound manner.Now citizens are enjoying the fruits of real democracy, by asking the questions from any government organisation easily and more frequently, for which the citizens were dependent on our elected representatives. Any type of information which the govt. or govt. funded/controlled institutions are supposed to have can be demanded by any citizen from anywhere in the country, without disclosing any reason for seeking the information.

As A Social Audit!
The queries, under this act, may bring in the lime light, the acts of omissions and commissions, including cases of harassment, inaction, undue favour, corruption, abuse of power by the officials of govt.Therefore, this way it works as a SOCIAL AUDIT. It facilitates the well informed citizen to live with dignity and contentment.
Towards A Negative Aspect!
Since, the citizens have the freedom to ask any query from the govt. and its respective funded or supported organisations, many times people misuse this right. Just for small inquiries many kinds of confidential secrets are driven out which leads to many undesirable events.Moreover, it becomes very inconvenient for the govt. organisations to take out and give away such important documents and informative history of that particular body.

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