What are the salient features of the RTI Act?
To put it in a nutshell, it makes government fully accountable to every citizen. But what it entails is that there has to be much greater sense of responsibility. It is a power that has to be given to every citizen in recognition of the fact that it is a government of the people, for the people and by the people the essence of democracy. Each Ministry apparently is required under the Act and under the instructions of the Department of Personnel to appoint Public Information Officers. Each ministry or department also has to organise its material and its working system in order to be able to respond to the time requirement of the public. Q: How long will the government take to put the implementation machinery in place? A: You have to ask the Department of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Q: How will you encourage people to make use of the RTI Act? A: I will have to consult my colleagues. The policy would be to encourage people to use the Act. How exactly that will be done, I ca
