The Right to Information Act will empower people as access to information it ensures is set to be an answer to the ills affecting governance, such as corruption, which stand in the way of the country becoming developed, according to experts.
Inaugurating a seminar organised by the Kannur University School of Legal Studies,Kerala , Vice-Chancellor P. Chandramohan said though the country had much potential for great development, poverty continued to be a major problem.
He said the Act was important because it provided a system for accessing information and lodging grievances when information was denied.
Delivering the keynote address, Director of the school Sheena Shukkoor said that though Article 19 (1) of the Constitution bestowed on people the right to information, the governments had been invoking privileges to counter this right.
The university's Controller of Examinations, K.P. Jayarajan, who was the moderator of the seminar, said the governments, bureaucracy and the people had to reconcile their minds to the presence of this Act.
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