Right to Information Act, a Casualty of Corrupt Bureaucrats and Politicians - Page 2
Democracy, a sham
It seems so-called democracy in India itself is a sham. Otherwise, how can black money nearly equal the GDP of the country and run a parallel government? How can millions of toiling masses who created trillions of dollars of Indian wealth, still get below $1.5 a day while the wealth of handful of families like Ambanis, Kirloskar, Tatas and Birlas, to name a few, shot up to billions of dollars? Education is still a distant dream for children of millions of workers and farmers. In India, where above 70% of the population is dependent on agriculture, land has become a scarce commodity. A rights activist has said once that the legislative members are not sitting in assemblies or parliament, but on thousands of acres of land. Had land reforms been implemented properly, land wouldn’t have been concentrated on such a massive scale.
CIC admits
The Central Information Commission, the watchdog for transparency, admitted violations. "RTI act is now beginning to bite into vested interests also. And the vested interests will spare no effort in using excessive measures to try and crush activism," it said. RTI act, in 5 years of its existence has exposed illicit relationship among bureaucrats, politicians and even mafia. Due to this, the law isn’t coming forward to rescue the activists even after their deaths.
Most of the information activists are taking up the issues at the individual level. So it is becoming easy for the vested interests to target and eliminate the activists. But unless information activists find a way to concur their fight with that of broad mass struggles that are striving to bring about a systemic change, individual activists continue to face threats to their lives.
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