Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Power of RTI (Right To Information Act)

The more and more persons should use the RTI Instruments to strengthen the transparency in government. The corruption is directly proportion to hiding of the information. It is not only the corruption, it is the arrogance/ power of public servant which is directly proportional to the hiding of information.
The public servant does not respond to the letters of the service providers or the development partners from NGO sector with the notion what will happen if he does not respond. But by RTI one can get recorded / certified information that he has ignored the person for whom he is appointed, he will be put to task. The public servant will then not dare to ignore the partners.

Till now they use to keep their notings hidden only open to their bosses to camaflogue the fact & harass the parties. These can be exposed now if RTI is used properly.

DR S K Trivedi

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