Right to Information Act, 2005 was introduced as a fundamental
right to make it mandatory for the governmental bodies to disclose
information. Under this act, a person can make a request to the
governmental bodies to disclose certain information and the
concerned authorities have to respond with the necessary data
unless they have some legally compelling reasons to stop them from
doing so. RTI has helped to curb down corruption and mismanagement
that was going down in the working of the government intuitions and
promoting accountability and transparency to the same.
There are three organs of the state i.e. legislature, executive
and judiciary. Legislature and executive has always been covered
into the ambit of the RTI but judiciary had always been secluded on
the grounds of independence of judiciary which is enshrined in the
constitution.
