-Governance Now
While folks working with the right to information (RTI) were still reeling from the supreme court judgment on the appointment of information commissioners in the Namit Sharma case, came the prime minister’s speech on the seventh year celebrations of the RTI Act on October 12, again raising the sceptre of “frivolous and vexatious” use of the law. The RTI Act now seems to be suffering from what might be called a double whammy, first the judiciary and now the bureaucracy-politics nexus!
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