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The Right to Information Act, 2005 |
The Right to Information Act, 2005 has been enacted to provide for right to information for 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, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. For the proper functioning of every democratic nation, it is important to have informed citizens and transparency of information and also to contain corruption and to hold governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the citizens. Subject to the provisions of this Act, all citizens shall have the right to information. According to the provisions of this Act, ‘information’ means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force and ‘right to information’ means the right to information accessible under this Act which is held by or under the control of any public authority and includes the right to inspection of work, documents, records; right to take notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records; right to take certified samples of material; and right to obtain information in the form of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device;
Read more:http://persmin.nic.in/RTI/rti-act.pdf
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