UPA turning on itself

The Right to Information Act has been one of the biggest policy imprints of the UPA (though it has been in the works for years before that, and a feeble “Freedom of Information Act” had been enacted in 2002, one that was repealed and replaced with this much more progressive and participatory legislation). It rests on the premise that the government and the governed are on the same side — a radical notion in a country that has long been labouring under the lofty aloofness of a colonial-era official secrets regime.

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