Govt reduced need to file RTI application through proactive disclosures: Amit Shah
The Modi government is so transparent that it is eliminating the need to file Right to Information requests, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday, speaking on the 14th anniversary of the RTI Act. We want to introduce a system where people do not feel the need to file an RTI request in order to get information, because the government has already pro-actively put the information in the public domain,” said Mr. Shah, who was the chief guest at the 14th annual convention of the Central Information Commission, the highest appeal body under the RTI Act. From sanitation and cooking gas schemes to spectrum auctions and FIRs filed in police stations, all information is being made available through digital dashboards which people can access without any need to file RTI requests, said Mr. Shah, adding that a “digitally-empowered society” was reducing corruption while increasing transparency and speed of governance. “The RTI Act itself envisages government making information available pro-actively, but at the end of the day, I should be able to access the information that I need, not just the information that the government wants to publicise,” said Anjali Bhardwaj, co-convenor of the National Campaign for the Right to Information.
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