An Indian Perspective of Right to Information And its Application

Abstract

Right to Information or in popular sense RTI is an essential step in ensuring transparency and accountability in governmental systems and processes. When a country’s government is transparent, there are very few chances exist for corruption and mismanagement of country’s resources and that government is presumed to be more accountable towards its citizens. This is the main reason of the growing importance of RTI and are therefore now-a-days becoming the standard of international arena. The Right to Information generally understood simply as the .right to have access to information held by public authorities. It is not just a necessity of the citizens but it is a condition precedent to a good and transparent government. To be more specific, Right to Information or RTI makes democracy more vibrant, participatory and meaningful and allows citizens to participate in the process of governance of the county. In other words, it can be stated that the Right to Information in true sense of the term empowers the ordinary/poor citizens or the so called mango people of the country especially them who lives mainly in the rural parts of our country.