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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTI gets a memorial in Rajasthan -Mohammed Iqbal

RTI gets a memorial in Rajasthan -Mohammed Iqbal

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published Published on May 29, 2016   modified Modified on May 29, 2016
-The Hindu

Jaipur: Ironic though it may sound, a unique memorial celebrating the Right to Information has come up in the Beawar town of Rajasthan — where the RTI movement had started 20 years ago — at a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the State has opted to delete chapters on the evolution of RTI campaign and law from its school textbooks.

Hundreds of people from all walks of life, who gathered at Chang Gate in Beawar on Thursday night to commemorate the historic 40-day dharna of 1996 for RTI, witnessed unveiling of the aesthetically-built memorial and demanded restoration of chapters dealing with common people’s contribution to RTI in the textbooks.

The dark blue memorial, is perhaps the only structure of its kind in the country, giving recognition to peasants and labourers who launched the campaign for their right to know about the way the government functioned and spent the public money.

40-day dharna

“I can never forget those 40 days when we sat on a dharna organised by the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) at Chang Gate. I was preserving every moment of it through my camera without a clue that we were making history,” said Ashok Sain, an activist.

The dharna, which lasted 40 days, went on to become a movement for transparency, accountability and participatory democracy and led to the establishment of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI).

A strong movement

The movement forced the Rajasthan government to pass the State RTI Act in 2000, after which Parliament enacted the RTI Act in 2005. Justice S.N. Bhargava, former Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court, who unveiled the memorial, dedicated it to the people.

The Hindu, 28 May, 2016, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rti-gets-a-memorial-in-rajasthan/article8657410.ece


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