[IAC#RG] GOVERNMENT MACHINERY DERAILS THE RTI ACT

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India Against Corruption

                          

                              GOVERNMENT   MACHINERY  DERAILS THE  RTI  ACT

Unfortunately, implementation of the RTI  Act by the government departments has slackened considerably all over India.

While the RTI Act  was originally  hailed as the ultimate tool in the hands of the citizens to ensure transparency and probity in the functioning of the government, this has not really happened this way.

While in the initial period, the government departments were responding to  RTI  queries within the stipulated time, in recent time, many government departments are reported  to be not even acknowledging the RTI letters. This particularly happens, in the case of RTI queries relating to difficult matter for the government.

Recently, I interacted with number of RTI activists and others and found that most of them have become frustrated, since even any appeal to Information Commissioners  are reported to not eliciting quick response and many times no response at all.

What is the alternate course for the citizens ? An average citizen  busy with the pre occupation of getting a living , cannot go to court to demand   reply for the RTI query.

The problem is that the government enact a law and then the government machinery itself derail the law. 

N.S.Venkataraman

Nandini Voice For The Deprived

email:- nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com