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akharbandyo
2025-10-26

RTI Under Siege: The Deadly Costs of Transparency in BJP-Run India
onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/10
📊 RTI Under Siege — how India’s transparency law is being strangled under authoritarian governance.
Explore the story of courage, censorship, and the high cost of truth-telling.
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The Right to Information Act (RTI), once hailed as a revolutionary tool empowering citizens to hold power accountable, now stands at a critical crossroads. Two decades after its enactment, the law that once illuminated corruption, exposed scams, and strengthened democracy has been systematically hollowed out through political interference, bureaucratic evasion, and legislative dilution. From the 2019 amendments weakening Information Commissions to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act’s Section 443 shielding the government under the guise of privacy, transparency has been recast as a threat. India today suffers from data opacity, manipulation, and denial—where evidence is replaced by erasure and secrecy becomes governance. Institutions once devoted to public integrity—the NSSO, CAG, and Indian Statistical Institute—face interference, delayed data releases, and censorship of inconvenient truths. Activists who dared to ask questions have been attacked or killed, while citizens encounter silence and obstruction. The RTI’s decline mirrors a deeper democratic crisis: the transformation of a people’s right to know into the state’s right to conceal. Yet amid suppression, citizens continue to resist—filing mass RTIs, exposing institutional failures, and demanding reform. The fight to save RTI is no longer just about access to information; it is a struggle to reclaim the soul of Indian democracy itself.The Right to Information Act (RTI), once hailed as a revolutionary tool empowering citizens to hold power accountable, now stands at a critical crossroads. Two decades after its enactment, the law that once illuminated corruption, exposed scams, and strengthened democracy has been systematically hollowed out through political interference, bureaucratic evasion, and legislative dilution. From the 2019 amendments weakening Information Commissions to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act’s Section 443 shielding the government under the guise of privacy, transparency has been recast as a threat. India today suffers from data opacity, manipulation, and denial—where evidence is replaced by erasure and secrecy becomes governance. Institutions once devoted to public integrity—the NSSO, CAG, and Indian Statistical Institute—face interference, delayed data releases, and censorship of inconvenient truths. Activists who dared to ask questions have been attacked or killed, while citizens encounter silence and obstruction. The RTI’s decline mirrors a deeper democratic crisis: the transformation of a people’s right to know into the state’s right to conceal. Yet amid suppression, citizens continue to resist—filing mass RTIs, exposing institutional failures, and demanding reform. The fight to save RTI is no longer just about access to information; it is a struggle to reclaim the soul of Indian democracy itself.
frankie (auto-rebootable)frankie@infosec.exchange
2025-05-31

RTI: Government Withholds Details of Social Media Takedown Notices, Cites details of Section 79 instead

medianama.com/2025/05/223-gove

Yup; of course they withheld information. :blobcatgiggle:

#RightToInformation #Government #Medianama #India #Section79 #Freedom

Aliyesha.comaliyesha
2024-09-05

धामी के लिए गरम दूध बने मंत्री गणेश जोशी।

aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

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IndiaNewsWatchindianewswatch@kolektiva.social
2023-08-24

Years of data goes missing from Union government’s RTI portal

Hundreds of RTI applications and their responses from Union public authorities have disappeared from the RTIOnline website; the site has processed 58.3 lakh applications since 2013.

thehindu.com/news/national/yea

#RTI #RTIOnline #DOPT #NIC #RightToInformation #UnionGovt #transparency #governance #BJP #india

Sankeiy tunes not Sankeiystns@fosstodon.org
2023-07-23

Small steps towards developing a cumulative index of legal sources and #information provided by the Indian government. Here's a proof of concept for a web app I'm looking to develop further - sankalpsrv.github.io/2023/07/2

#openaccess #freedomofinformation #RighttoInformation

EU Court of JusticeEUCourtPress@respublicae.eu
2022-10-28

#1999: The Treaty also strengthened the protection of #FundamentalRights, recognised the #RightToInformation as well as #ConsumerProtection

🐦🔗: nitter.eu/EUCourtPress/status/

Awake@mstdn.social
2021-05-06

#SirHNRelianceFoundationHospital #MedicalNegligence #MedicalEthics #CandidaAuris #ICU #Pathogens #NosocomialInfections #HospitalAcquiredInfections #RightToLive #RightToInformation #BoycottReliance #JusticeForPatients
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Shaswatswayamshaswat
2020-04-30

's PMO refuses to give details on under Act!
So uses office to solicit funds for PMCARE but does not care for transparency!
thewire.in/government/pmo-rti-

Kumar Sambhav ShrivastavaKumar_Sambhav@masthead.social
2019-12-19

RT @thesuniljain@twitter.com

Never thought a Chief Justice of India would come out against something that increases transparency!
Sad day when the CJI starts sounding like a govt functionary #RightToInformation

🐦🔗: twitter.com/thesuniljain/statu

Naveen Surendar :mastodon:naveensurendar
2019-12-18

RT @thesuniljain@twitter.com

Never thought a Chief Justice of India would come out against something that increases transparency!
Sad day when the CJI starts sounding like a govt functionary

🐦🔗: twitter.com/thesuniljain/statu

Musafirmusafir
2019-12-16

Ye ajeeb silsila hai....

"Have you seen the kind of people seeking information under the Act? They have no relation with the information... People are called activists. Is this a profession?"

~ CJI Bobde

Musafirmusafir
2019-12-07

Why journalists will not notice the defanging of the RTI Act.

The Ministry of Truth

@nit_set 's commentary.

caravanmagazine.in/commentary/

Via~ @thecaravanindia

Musafirmusafir
2019-11-20

@nit_set 's reports and findings are hugely based on RTI information that Commodore Lokesh K Batra has been tirelessly working to get. It also exposes the Narendra Modi led BJP's agenda on weakening the RTI. And let's also not stop at this. What we have right now ka just a speck of what the BJP has actually done and what it intends to do to this country. There is much more. Much more than we can even imagine.

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