Use RTI frequently for the cause of better India.

The Right to Information Act (RTI) is an Act of the Parliament of India "to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens".

Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen may request information from a "public authority" (a body of Government or "instrumentality of State") which is required to reply expeditiously or within thirty days. This law was passed by Parliament on 15 June 2005 and came fully into force on 13 October 2005.

Right to Information Act 2005 was brought in to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority. Transparency leads to information and through information accountability can be fixed. Lack of accountability is more dangerous and damaging than all the crimes, terrorist attacks and road accidents put together. But we seldom pay attention or frightened on the failing accountability of the political and permanent executive.

After Independence, if every rupee of the exchequer was well spent, without overt and covert scams, every village in India would have been electrified by now. Every village would have potable drinking water available. Every village would have schools with full infrastructure. All the primary health centers would have been equipped with latest medical equipment and qualified doctors. Alas, taking the present situation into account we cannot dream of such effective state in the near future.

On the eve of the eighth anniversary of the enactment of the RTI Act every conscientious citizen should use RTI frequently for the cause of better India.