2010-2012/FW/B5 SUBJECT: LEGAL SYSTEM TOPIC: RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT PROVIDES A TOOL TO IMPROVE TRANSPERANCY & VALUE-ADDED PRACTISES IN PUBLIC DOMAIN SUBMITTED ON: November 7‚ 2010 SUBMITTED TO: INDEX SR. NO. | TOPIC | PAGE NO. | 1 | INTRODUCTION | 3 | 2 | RTI & THE ELEMENTS OF GOOD GOVERNANCE | 5 | 3 | THE 3-STAGE REGIME FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION | 7 | 4 | HOW A CITIZEN SHOULD GO ABOUT EXERCISING HIS/HER RIGHT TO INFORMATION | 7 | 5 | A FEW USEFUL TIPS WHEN FRAMING QUESTIONS
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the administration processes‚ brought into force the Right to Information Act on October 12th‚ 2005. As per the Parliament of India‚ the purpose of the RTI Act is ‘to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens’[i]. The Act applies to all the states and union territories of India‚ except Jammu and Kashmir. The Act is applicable to all constitutional authorities – any institution or body constituted by an act of Parliament or state legislature – including the executive
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About Right to Information 1) This Act may be called the Right to Information Act‚ 2005. 2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. 3) The provisions of sub-section (1) of section 4‚ sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 5‚ sections 12‚ 13‚ 15‚16‚ 24 ‚ 27 and 28 shall come into force at once‚ and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on the one hundred and twentieth day of its enactment. When does it come into force
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2010‚ April 27 EDITORIAL Right To Information Act 2009 M S Siddiqui A citizen of a free and democratic country has the right to have access to information and know everything happening around him. It is a fundamental right of every citizen as enshrined in the UN resolution in its very first session in 1946‚ stating that ’Freedom of information is a fundamental human right.’ It is interesting to note that the right to information laws existed about 200 years before the UN resolution
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public affairs‚ the Indian Parliament enacted the Right to Information Act in 2005. It is a path breaking legislation empowering people and promoting transparency. While right to information is implicitly guaranteed by the Constitution‚ the Act sets out the practical regime for citizens to secure access to information on all matters of governance. In the words of the Prime Minister52 “We live in an age of information‚ in which the free flow of information and ideas determines the pace of development and
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Constraints” in implementing the RTI Act* June 2009 f “…democracy requires an informed citizenry and transparency of information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed” – Source: RTI Act’ 2005 *connectedthinking pwc Contents Executive summary 3 Introduction 12 Progress made so far 26 Key issues and constraints in implementing the RTI Act 36 Learning from international
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REPORT OF NATIONAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE ON RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT Executive Summary The Central Information Commission constituted a sub-committee for coordinating the suggestions received from the State Information Commissions and to review the suggested amendments in the Right to Information Act‚ 2005. The Committee consisted of ten members‚ of which nine are Chief Information Commissioners of States and one a Central Information Commissioner. Although the mandate of the
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HISTORY OF RIGHT TO INFORMATION INTRODUCTION: Right to Information has given a platform to the people to know about the proper functioning and the administration of the government. Before the need for Right to Information emerged‚ there were other acts such as the Evidence Act and the Official Secrets Act which gave certain privileges to the government to prevent certain documents to be disclosed to the public. As a result the government started using these privileges to serve their own ends
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Right to Information In Bangladesh Introduction: The Right to Information is the key to all other rights. It is among the most important instruments to effectively empower those to whom power should belong in democracy - the people. The United Nations has called it the touchstone of all the freedoms to which UN is consecrated.3 The history of the recognition of the right to information is much older though. The first country to have the RTI law was Finland and Sweden in 1766 when the former
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IS THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT WORKING AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT‚ GOOD GOVERNANCE AND STRONG DEMOCRACY IN INDIA? Prakhar Gupta Student PGDM-RM (2013-15) Xavier Institute of Management‚ Bhubaneswar Email: u313035@stu.ximb.ac.in Abstract: The Right to Information Act‚ 2005 is an act to empower the citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities‚ in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority. But after
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