An
Act to provide for setting out the practical regime
of right to information for citizens to secure access
to information under the control of public authorities,
in order to promote transparency and accountability
in the working of every public authority, the constitution
of a Central Information Commission and State Information
Commissions and for matters connected therewith or
incidental thereto.
Whereas the Constitution of India
has established democratic Republic;
And whereas democracy requires
an informed citizenry and transparency of information
which are vital to its functioning and also to contain
corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities
accountable to the governed;
And whereas revelation of information
in actual practice is likely to conflict with other
public interests including efficient operations of the
Governments, optimum use of limited fiscal resources
and the preservation of confidentiality of sensitive
information;
And whereas it is necessary to
harmonise these conflicting interests while preserving
the paramountcy of the democratic ideal;
Now, therefore, it is expedient
to provide for furnishing certain information to citizens
who desire to have it.
Be it enacted by Parliament in
the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
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