Ignoring the plight of RTI users facing death for keeping our democracy alive is a threat to democracy itself. Analyze (200 words)
Refer – The Hindu
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KEY POINTS
· The RTI empowers us to participate in the policymaking process, by providing access to information relating to the functioning of all public authorities.
· Ordinary citizens have used the law to make public authorities accountable and transparent in their functioning.
· The widespread understanding and use of the RTI is a shining example of a participatory democracy in spite of our current realities.
· Since the implementation of the Act, some 100 RTI activists across the country have been killed and several are harassed on a daily basis.
· Bihar is turning out to be one of the most dangerous States for RTI activists despite being one of the earliest promoters of the law.
· In 2018, six RTI users were killed for seeking information related to the functioning of public programmes and institutions.
· After all, the whistle blowers were performing a basic civic duty of public vigilance that the government should encourage and initiate timely action on.
· The Supreme Court observed that there was an “absolute vacuum” which could not be allowed to go on.
· The Central government was called upon to decide on a specific time frame to establish an administrative set-up to protect whistle blowers. The court recognised that the concept of a whistle blower is a global phenomenon and has become a reality.
TK Padhan 2 years
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Aravind R 2 years
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Varon 2 years
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