RTI ACT
BUSINESS LAW
ASSIGNMENT-1
INTRODUCTION:-
Right to Information Act, 2005
(Act No. 22 of 2005)
[As Modified up to 1st February, 2011] Right to Information Act also known as RTI is an act which has been passed by Parliament of India in 2005 and came into force on October 12, 2005 which mandates timely response to any queries or government information asked by citizens of India. The importance of RTI is that the act gives right to citizens to securely access the information under control of public authorities. As our democracy requires informed citizens and hence act was basically formed to empower citizens and provide transparency of information. RTI was also implemented to contain corruption in the country and to hold officials of government and government itself for the governance in the country But there are certain limitations in RTI where some official information which are confidential for countries interest are allowed to keep secret and which cannot be accessed under RTI Act, 2005. The public authorities have appointed some of its employees as public information officer and these officers are responsible to provide information which has been seeked under RTI Act, 2005. At sub divisional level there is assistant public information officer to whom a citizen can give his RTI application. But assistant public information officer is not responsible for supply of information. He just forwards the application to the concerned authority. Though the Act was basically formed for the benefit of the people and the country there were many started misusing the Act because of certain reasons. So there are many Pros and Cons of RTI Act, 2005.
Right to Information Under the RTI Act,2005:- Now let’s see what are the information a person can seek under the RTI Act which are held by the public authorities. The right includes,
Inspection of work.
Inspection of documents and
ASSIGNMENT-1
INTRODUCTION:-
Right to Information Act, 2005
(Act No. 22 of 2005)
[As Modified up to 1st February, 2011] Right to Information Act also known as RTI is an act which has been passed by Parliament of India in 2005 and came into force on October 12, 2005 which mandates timely response to any queries or government information asked by citizens of India. The importance of RTI is that the act gives right to citizens to securely access the information under control of public authorities. As our democracy requires informed citizens and hence act was basically formed to empower citizens and provide transparency of information. RTI was also implemented to contain corruption in the country and to hold officials of government and government itself for the governance in the country But there are certain limitations in RTI where some official information which are confidential for countries interest are allowed to keep secret and which cannot be accessed under RTI Act, 2005. The public authorities have appointed some of its employees as public information officer and these officers are responsible to provide information which has been seeked under RTI Act, 2005. At sub divisional level there is assistant public information officer to whom a citizen can give his RTI application. But assistant public information officer is not responsible for supply of information. He just forwards the application to the concerned authority. Though the Act was basically formed for the benefit of the people and the country there were many started misusing the Act because of certain reasons. So there are many Pros and Cons of RTI Act, 2005.
Right to Information Under the RTI Act,2005:- Now let’s see what are the information a person can seek under the RTI Act which are held by the public authorities. The right includes,
Inspection of work.
Inspection of documents and