RTI Act: Revolutionary law being made ineffective? | Ep6 Laws of the Land

The Right to Information Act 2005 came with the promise of bringing in the much needed accountability and transparency in governance. What kind of information can be demanded under the law? How has the law fared so far? Has it been effectively implemented on the ground? And how does the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 propose to change the #RTIAct?
#dataprotectionbill
In the sixth episode of ThePrint's #Lawsoftheland, Anjali Bhardwaj, co-convener of National Campaign for People's Right to Information founding member of Satark Nagrik Sangathan, answers all these questions and more, with Bhadra Sinha and Apoorva Mandhani.
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[@vishalaggarwal5371]

Thanks for publishing this quite a informative session. It’s good to know how important RTI is to people of India. On the concern of Data protection law, there are many ways people information can be abstracted or made anonymous without revealing their details before giving the information to the RTI user.

[@prashanthb6521]

Institutions and principles are what builds a nation ! Today they are being dismantled in India with no remorse or guilt.

[@venugiri8078]

The Government officials are not giving any respect to Right to Information Act. I submitted a letter in HMDA Tarnaka, Hyderabad and the letter is written by a well known and respected lawyer of High Court who is now the Judge for High Court asking for an information regarding the award copy for the Land Acquisition made by HMDA in A place called Uppal and the project is named as Uppal Bhagath and the officers did not respond and I filed a case in HIGH COURT and mentioned the same in my Court Filing and HMDA officers responded saying they provided the information to me and I was lying that I did not receive. There is a system to check who is lying and the system is e-mail proof /Acknowledgment. NONE of the Government officials use government email addresses to respond or to receive in any department because they are scared that they can be tracked. If they don’t have / fallow a proper tracking system the LAWS made or of no use for a Common Man / Woman.

[@motivateall9751]

Happy new year to all. May god bless all with happiness and good health.

[@dhuraiathi5291]

This is the informative session done by print. Don't watch that ANI podcast smrita prakash which consist of full lies.

[@SanjayTiwari-bh8rd]

Kudos to Uttar Pradesh....

[@SanjayTiwari-bh8rd]

Efforts should be made to publish all the information in public domain to the extent possible rather than citizen running around for information.

[@commonerIndian]

Nice

[@kamalbeesla5733]

Hindi main news de abhi tak India main English bahut kamm log jante hay aur joh janteen hai voh news nahin dekhte

[@NeelanjanBandyopadhyay]

Except the property of judges.

[@NeelanjanBandyopadhyay]

How is Personal Data linked to Ration Records which is a Government Scheme/ Department list? Why not make public property of ShekharGupta [AugustaWestland Deal] then? About all the Judge's wives running foreign NGO's and also Of Chandrachud(foreign appointee)!