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MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR

RIGHT TO INFORMATION (LAW & PRACTICE)

1st Edition Reprint 2007

Containing an Exhaustive Commentary on The Struggle for Information Right, An Analysis of the Right to Information Act, 2005 [Ss. 1 to 31], Regime of Secrecy and Need for Disclosure, Voters’ Right to Information, International Perspectives, Freedom of Information Law Around the World, Using the Right to Information, Transparency in Administration through Easy Access Laws etc., with the help of case-laws, also containing Related Acts, Rules, Reports, State Laws on the Right to Information, Allied Acts and Rules, International Conventions & Declarations etc. etc.

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Dr. Madabhushi Sridhar — RIGHT TO INFORMATION — LAW & PRACTICE, Edition 2006 contains an exhaustive commentary on the Struggle for Information Right, An Analysis of the Right to Information Act, 2005 [Ss. 1 to 31], Regime of Secrecy and Need for Disclosure, Voters’ Right to Information, International Perspectives, Freedom of Information Law Around the World, Using the Right to Information, Transparency in Administration through Easy Access Laws etc., with the help of case-laws, also containing Related Acts, Rules, Reports, State Laws on the Right to Information, Allied Acts and Rules, International Conventions & Declarations etc. etc.

n independent mechanism to guide and enforce the right to information was created in the Right to Information Act, 2005. Despite its deficiencies, the new law has certain positive and useful provisions, which have to be understood and explained to people at large so that they empower themselves through the demand and obtain information. There is a need to explain the Right to Information Act, 2005 in comparison with repealed Freedom of Information Act, 2002 with all the scope for exploring information and possible implications leading to excluding the information under plethora of exceptions and ambiguous expressions. Hence, this is an attempt to inform about information, as a right, as an instrument, and as a need.

The information is not any body’s private property. If at all it is agreed that it has attributes of the property, it’s owner is the nation and beneficiary must be each and every citizen of the country. Thus the government and public officers, who are supposed to serve the people on the payment from public purse, are none else than the trustees of this national resource -information. Besides moral and legal obligation it is their constitutional obligation also based on the philosophical foundation of freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 (1)(a) of the Constitution. As the transparency is the culture required for good governance, secrecy directly means disempowerment. The people at large have right to know in order to be able to take part in development. Right to know is a basic right which citizens of a free country aspire in the broaden horizons of the right to live in this age on our land under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Right to information is basic to any democracy. A vibrant citizenry is a pre requisite for survival of democratic society and governance. It is not possible to have a rightful expression as a right without the right to information as basis to freedom of speech. The quality of life in a civilized society depends upon the quality of exchange of information about governance and other related aspects. The struggle between human rights and Government by secrecy should go on for ever. A citizen cannot afford to reconcile to the strong trend that government might run only on secrecy and human rights is only a dream. It is not possible for any democratic Government to survive without accountability, which can be realized only when the people have information about the functioning of the Government. The whole effort must be to make democracy a really effective participatory democracy. The representative rulers should allow the real sovereigns, i.e., the people to decide, and the people have to decide or take part in every decision making process.

Price : Rs.995.00

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Pages 1000 (approx.)

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