Right to Information act, (2005) / edited by Sathpal Puliani

Since the time of democratic Governments came to function it is the intention of curious citizens to seek information as to how the administrators, carries on the work of administration entrusted to them by law. The subjected citizens some times are eager to know, how taxes paid by them has been utilized by men in power or whether such spendings has gone on side ways (mis-utilised). The curious citizens are also interested to know how the discretions vested with the administrators are utilized, properly implemented for the benefit of larger interest of society/community or whether such discretions are got en-cashed in the process of dispensing of benevolences given by the State. From time to time mechanisms have been devised to keep checks and balances on administrators, about the utility of funds ear marked for developmental work. This strict scrutiny of administrative action is possible only when the opposition party in the Legislature House is strong enough to expose the misdeeds of the Administrators/Executives.. The problem of dissecting the pit-falls of the Government policies comes only when the opposition may also not morally

strong enough to scrutinize governmental actions or obvious reasons. At that time the governed/voter/subject requires to know how things are taking shape in forming the policy of the State. In any part of the world and in any forms of Governments, the persons in

power, who are prone to commit misdeeds and who have committed misdeeds, wants to hide facts from the glare of public view. To cover up such mis-deeds or misdemeanor the rulers will try not to disclose the true facts to the public. To overcome this difficulty in securing information from the Governmental machinery information must be sought from persons who hold such information. In this direction the main of aim of Right to Information Act is to secure information from authorities for exposing mis-deeds or to fortifying to criticize anti-people policies with valid points.

To remedy this problem it is only by securing right information by means of questioning so as to facilitate the public to secure such information on the functioning of Governmental authorities The Right to Information Act, 2005 has been enacted on 15th June 2005 (Central Act No.22 of 2005) by the Central Government.