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Written by Virag   
Thursday, 03 June 2010 21:31

Today, 3rd June 2010 was a great day for citizens in general and RTI activists in particular. For the uninitiated, RTI Act stands for "Right to Information Act" which was passed in the year 2005 to ensure good governance. This Act is a powerful tool in the hands of citizens to nail corrupt bureaucrats, popularly known as Babus. This Act empowers citizens to demand any information from the Babus pertaining to Governance, expenditure and actions taken by the various Govt. Depts.

As per Section 4(1) (a) and Section 4(1) (b), the Govt. authorities are supposed to display the names of Public Information Officers (PIOs), Assistant Public Information Officers (APIOs), Appellate Authorities (AAs), so that citizens do not face harassment while filing applications and know whom to file.

 

However, it came to the notice of a concerned and awake citizen that the Bangalore Police has not complied with these provisions of the Act and accordingly filed a complaint with the Karnataka Information Commission (KIC). The commission took note of the seriousness of the matter and directed all the 174 Police Inspectors (PIs) and 25 Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) and the Commissioner of Police (CP) to comply with the Act and display the names of PIOs, APIOs and AAs and revert back to the Commission with compliance report on 3rd June 2010.

 

And so, today, we all had gone to the KIC to see the tamasha. Officials from almost all the DCP offices had assembled and were handing over reports of their compliance to the citizen and whispering in his ears - "Sir, I have done the work."

Now this was a treat to my eyes. These Babus have a lot of arrogance that they work for the Govt. and behave very rudely with people but today they were all subdued and were presenting their work to their boss - The Citizen.

As a citizen, it was my delight to see the Babu's plight. This power comes only from the RTI Act. It gives us citizens the true value of the tax that we pay to the Govt. and allows us to demand accountability, transparency and fairness in their operation thus minimizing corruption.

But what's more pertinent to mention here is that the bureaucrats are getting increasingly uncomfortable with the RTI Act as they are being put to scrutiny and the patronage of secrecy they were enjoying so far is now receding.

It a celebration time for every citizen, after all "A citizen's delight is a babu's plight".
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