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A look at how the RTI Act has been systematicallyassaulted by successive governments to blunt its efficacy and make governance less transparent
For 24 years, until the enactment of the Right to Information Act (RTI) in 2005, Shivaji Raut was...'
$disp = '<p style="text-align:justify">-The Hindu</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>A look at how the RTI Act has been systematicallyassaulted by successive governments to blunt its efficacy and make governance less transparent</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">For 24 years, until the enactment of the Right to Information Act (RTI) in 2005, Shivaji Raut was an ordinary teacher, the vice-principal of Anant English Medium School in Satara district in western Maharashtra. But when he discovered the power of RTI in demanding accountability and transparency from the government, he suddenly shot into the limelight.</p><p style="text-align:justify">I remember how, armed with copies of the muster rolls of 43 villages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme that Raut had obtained via RTI, we travelled 650 km in one day to check for ourselves the authenticity of the names on the rolls. We picked three villages from Mann and Khatau talukas of Satara, and stood at each village square asking people to gather there. As we read out the names, we realised the huge fraud. Some names did not exist, some were literate but had thumb impressions against the wages paid, and some did not live in the village at all. Suddenly, we found in the RTI Act a tool to expose the government with its own certified copies.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/the-taming-of-rti/article33707018.ece" title="https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/the-taming-of-rti/article33707018.ece">click here</a> to read more.</p>'
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The taming of RTI -Vinita Deshmukh
-The Hindu
A look at how the RTI Act has been systematicallyassaulted by successive governments to blunt its efficacy and make governance less transparent
For 24 years, until the enactment of the Right to Information Act (RTI) in 2005, Shivaji Raut was an ordinary teacher, the vice-principal of Anant English Medium School in Satara district in western Maharashtra. But when he discovered the power of RTI in demanding accountability and transparency from the government, he suddenly shot into the limelight.
I remember how, armed with copies of the muster rolls of 43 villages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme that Raut had obtained via RTI, we travelled 650 km in one day to check for ourselves the authenticity of the names on the rolls. We picked three villages from Mann and Khatau talukas of Satara, and stood at each village square asking people to gather there. As we read out the names, we realised the huge fraud. Some names did not exist, some were literate but had thumb impressions against the wages paid, and some did not live in the village at all. Suddenly, we found in the RTI Act a tool to expose the government with its own certified copies.
