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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Stakeholders Need to Work Together to Improve RTI Implementation, Says Study -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Stakeholders Need to Work Together to Improve RTI Implementation, Says Study -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

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published Published on Jan 24, 2017   modified Modified on Jan 24, 2017
-TheWire.in

A report from several civil society actors has found that the Right to Information Act is not functioning as it should be.

New Delhi:
Two organisations working in the field of right to information assessment and advocacy and a publishing house have come together to bring out ‘Tilting the Balance of Power: Adjudicating the RTI Act for the Oppressed and the Marginalised’, which is a detailed analysis of the orders of the Supreme Court, various high courts and information commissions, pertaining to the RTI Act in India, in terms of their implication on the quality of governance.

The analysis by Research, Assessment and Analysis Group (RaaG), Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) and Rajpal and Sons Publications is, according to its authors, aimed at improving “the quality of governance in India, especially in terms of its impact on the oppressed and marginalised sections of society.”

Need to make RTI Act more effective

The report, they said, specifically looks at how the RTI Act can be made more effective for improving governance, especially by bringing about systemic changes through better adjudication. Towards that end, the report has analysed orders and directions of the Supreme Court, along with recent orders of the various high courts, pertaining to the RTI Act.

This apart, a sample of orders of information commissions have also been analysed in the “hope that the analysis and critique presented here provokes a public debate on the manner in which the RTI Act is being understood and interpreted by the adjudicators. Underlying this hope is the belief that in India there is inadequate informed public feedback to adjudicators, on interpreting and applying legal provisions critical to the upholding of fundamental public interest.”

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TheWire.in, 24 January, 2017, https://thewire.in/102443/rti-implementation-study/


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