JHARKHAND MIRROR

By Gladson Dungdung

14 November, 2009

JCB Machine at work

In the age of information revolution, the Right to Information Act 2005, widely known as RTI, can be counted as one of the milestones of India. The UPA (I) propagated it as one of its achievements and bagged all the credits for it. There are also many successful stories of the RTI across the country, where people got justice only because of the RTI. But the other side of the story is also pathetic. There are cases of people being threatened of excommunication, harassed by the government officers, false cases filed against them, asked to pay fee more than their annual income and slaughtered only because they dared to seek the information regarding misappropriation of the public money and campaigned against rampant corruption in development and welfare schemes. The latest stories of Dhanbad and Bokaro districts of Jharkhand suggest that how the people have internalized ‘corruption’ as part of their culture.  Read more…