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Attacks on RTI Activists Are Rising. We Need Accountability Laws. -Aruna Roy, Mayank Labh and Meera M Panicker

-TheWire.in

The recent attack on an RTI activist in Rajasthan's Barmer must be seen within a larger culture of violence in the country, being perpetrated to settle scores while the state says nothing.

The Right to Information (RTI) application has long since drawn violence for its use as a tool to disrupt the corrupt status quo in the country and another such incident has recently taken place in Rajasthan.

Amra Ram Godara, a farmer and RTI activist from Chimniyon ki Dhani, Barmer was abducted in a white Scorpio on December 21, brutally beaten and left near his house in a near fatal condition. He suffered multiple injuries; his hand was fractured, nails were shot into his legs and he was forced to drink a bottle of urine.

Godara had asked several questions of the Kumpaliya village panchayat relating to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): underpayment of workers who constructed a rain water harvesting tank; corruption in road construction; arbitrary allotment of housing under the PM Awas Yojana (Grameen) and the illegal liquor trade going on in the village. He had raised these issues during a ‘Prashasan Gaon Ke Sang Abhiyan‘ camp, a special, village-level programme by the Rajasthan government to resolve grievances.  

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