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Orissa RTI Act: A Step Towards Transparency

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, andmain mantra of good governance. Transparency
a people who mean to be their own governors,and good governance are parallel to each
must arm themselves with the power knowledgeother. Transparency is nothing but the
gives. A popular government without popularavailability of information to the general
information or the means of acquiring it, ispublic and clarity about government rules,
but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy orregulations, and decisions. In a state like
perhaps both.-- James MadisonWant to know howOrissa, the generators and very limited
much money was earmarked for repairing roadspersons can access to any information, which
in KBK district, or how much money governmentshould be disseminated among the citizens.
allocates for your village medical? Now justThat is main reason for the state to stand in
ask the government and it is obliged tothe third position in the less developed
provide the answer of your question with in astates. Access to accurate and timely
specified time. In the age of informationinformation about the economy and government
affluence, everyone is starving forpolicies can be vital for decision making on
information. It may be related to the family,any issues by the citizens. On grounds of
village, town, district, state or nation. Weefficiency alone, such data should be freely
have a custom to keep the essentialand readily available to civil citizens.From
information secretly. We have also aOfficial Secrets Act to Right to Information
misconception that if we hide some relevantAct, we have covered a long journey with many
information from the public then theups and downs. After nearly a decade of
importance of that particular person relatinghectic lobbying, we have won the hard-fought
to that particular issue is always beenstruggle for the freedom of Information. The
there. Those days are gone when everyone hascampaign for entrenching the right to
tried to exercise power over each other byinformation in India were finally rewarded on
controlling access to information and15 June 2005 with the President's assent to
knowledge. Now sharing of information is thethe Right to Information Act 2005.



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