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Subject: "Safeguarding the Right to Information: Report of the People's RTI
Assessment 2008" in India
freedominfo.org - Update, July 17, 2009
* "Safeguarding the Right to Information: Report of the People's RTI
Assessment 2008" in India
"Safeguarding the Right to Information: Report of the People's RTI
Assessment 2008" in India
A Comprehensive Look at the Implementation and Use of India's RTI Act
New Delhi, India -- In the first two years of access-to-information
implementation in India, about 1.6 million requests for information were
maade in urban areas, while an additional 400,000 applications were made in
the rural villages. Taking such a large-scale access-to-information regime
head on, "Safeguarding the Right to Information: Report of the People's RTI
Assessment 2008" is the first broad-based, nation-wide study of RTI
implementation and usage in India.
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