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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Whistleblowers act needed to protect RTI users: Aruna Roy

Whistleblowers act needed to protect RTI users: Aruna Roy

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published Published on May 14, 2018   modified Modified on May 14, 2018
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Aruna Roy also feels that there is still a need to see the RTI as a larger democratic and people's constitutional tool to make power truthful and accountable and put pressure on the political establishment, which it cannot ignore or distort.

New Delhi:
There is a necessity for a whistleblowers act to protect RTI users as the system has “strategised to stall” free flow of information to disempower and stop such activists, says Aruna Roy, who spearheaded the Right to Information Act movement.

She also feels that there is still a need to see the RTI as a larger democratic and people’s constitutional tool to make power truthful and accountable and put pressure on the political establishment, which it cannot ignore or distort.

According to Roy, the RTI has brought in an architecture where “we are enabled to change from a culture of secrecy to one of transparency”.

“However, the system ever conscious and jealous of its power, has strategised to stall the free flow of information, to disempower and stall RTI users. More than 70 of them have died, for exposing corruption and preserving democratic rights,” the former IAS officer who resigned from the service to work with peasants and workers in rural Rajasthan told PTI.

Roy, who in 1990 co-founded the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), alleges that the State has permitted criminals to get away.

“If there had been no RTI, many of these tenacious RTI users would have been declared terrorists, anti-state, or Maoists. But since its inception many thousands of questioners of corruption and mis-governance have been able to use the RTI to not only establish the need for transparency, but also to get justice,” she says.

She suggests that a whistleblowers act is the need of the hour to protect the RTI users like human rights defenders.

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The Indian Express, 13 May, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/whistleblowers-act-needed-to-protect-rti-users-aruna-roy-5175104/


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