01981pab a2200205 454500008004000000100001700040245006600057260000900123300001500132362001200147520132300159650003301482650003501515650002501550700002101575773004401596909001101640999001901651952010501670180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGuhman, B.S.  aRight to Information Act, 2005 in India: a decadal experience  c2017  ap.228-251.  aApr-Jun  aRight to Information (RTI) Act emerged as a powerful instrument for taming corruption in the functioning of public authorities by promoting transparency and accountability. The Act has completed ten years but the challenges hindering the successful implementation of the Act are still looming large. The Act is slowly moving away from its goal owing to many factors, such as lack of awareness, improper maintenance of records, poor compliance to public disclosure of information mentioned under Section 4 of the Act, inconvenient fee depositing mechanism, lack of sustained training mechanism for employees, misuse of the Act, pendency of appeals before Information Commissions and lack of legislative measures for protection of whistleblowers. For making the Act a success, it is essential to conduct massive awareness campaigns for citizens, to maintain proper official records for facilitating provision of information under the Act, ensuring suo motu disclosure of information mentioned under Section 4 of the Act, use of information and communication technology in the implementation of the Act, making available convenient fee depositing options, conducting training programmes for officials involved in the implementation of the Act, and, finally, enacting a strong whistleblowers' protection Act. - Reproduced.  aRight to information - India  aRight to Information Act, 2005  aRight to information  aSohail, Mohammad  aIndian Journal of Public Administration  a115642  c115636d115636  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 63, Issue no: 2pAR116102r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR