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Right to Information Act 2005 A Primer (National Campaign for Peoples Right to Information)

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	Publisher: National Book Trust India
	Author Suchi Pande, Shekhar Singh
	Language: English
	Pages: 79
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 120 gm
	Edition: 2020
	ISBN: 9788123750750
	HBQ037

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About the Book This Primer is designed to help seekers of Information, its custodians and RTI appellate authorities. Through a question answer format it introduces the lay reader to the RTI ACT and its implementation, its use and function as well as details of how information can be accessed and appeals filed. The Primer also highlights the rights and duties of Public Information Officers and public authority. Also includes sample application form and appeal formats.

About the Author-1 Suchi Pande was Secretary, National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI). She is also an independent researcher, looking at interlinked issues of governance and accountability with respect to the urban poor.

About the Author-2 Shekhar Singh is a founder member and former convenor of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information. He was member of the Delhi State Council for the Right to Information and co-chair of the International Task Force on Transparency, Columbia University, New York. He has taught philosophy at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, and environmental man-agement at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.

Introduction Some of us feel that this country would be a better place to live in if we had better politicians and bureaucrats. However, real change can come only when the people of this country hold their government and public servants accountable, so that they are forced to respond to the poorest citizen of this land. And when that happens, no public servant or government would dare to be corrupt, inefficient or insensitive.

But how do we hold the government and other public authorities accountable?

We cannot even begin to make the government and other public authorities accountable if we do not have the basic information regarding their decisions and functioning. The Right to Information Act that came into force on 12 October 2005, empowers us to do just that.

It gives us the right to question our public authorities and get information about matters that affect us in thousands of ways. Used innovatively, such information can make our government and other public authorities accountable to the people.

Acknowledgements This primer draws heavily on the primers made earlier by Parivartan and NCPRI, and various other documents too numerous to list here. We also gratefully acknowledge the website of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) as a valuable source of information. Information was also collected from the websites of the Central Information Commission, The Government of India and various State Governments and Information Commissions. We also gratefully acknowledge the very useful comments given by various participants of the Training of Trainers workshop organized by the Consumer and Legal Help Society, at Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan on 19&20 November 2006 and the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) on 26 December 2006. The authors are grateful to Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Anjali Bhardwaj, Angela Rangad, Tarun Bhartiya and the Working Committee of the NCPRI for useful suggestions.

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