Reflections of Rajaram Bojji

Why a citizen should risk his life to do public service? To merely collect information, if one seeks to use the RTI, so long as it is well sanitised, the government releases the same. You do not know what you did not get.Really sensitive information will be hidden. If too much pressure arises, then life itself is taken. There are cases when really damaging information comes out under two sets of circumstances: 1. When a group of persons or an organisation operates through some court process and some one in the government is willing to cooperate 2. When the government itself in a planned pre-meditated manner, create such document duly marked secret, but release at the right time under RTI to achieve own internal agenda of setting right a rogue political colleague, whom they are otherwise unable to handle. So RTI is either misused or abused. The basic lacuna in the ACT is you do not what to ask for , and do not know how much more the government is hiding while giving some information. It...

This song and drama show that the Government has imposed on us under the benevolence of granting RTI Act is a sham. Public has fundamental right to know the process of governance. How it became a secret, unless appealed and applied under some ACT, rationed information will be given out? How our innocent citizens are made to believe that they got some wonderful Act! I strongly hold to my position that the file noting and proceedings should be equally public as the order that got generated so long as it is public domain order. Any order which is issued in public domain shall necessarily be accompanied by the background file image on a secure web. There shall not be secrecy. Any secret activity can have secret orders and secret files. Just like Judiciary or the Parliament cannot act in secrecy. a bureaucrat also should not act in secrecy. During the process of the file, till issue of the order, things can be kept secret. But not after issue of the final order. This one single...