Rallying for RTI,CIC says total disconnect,govt losing legitimacy

This Act makes people a partner of governments decision-making, Mishra said.

The government is losing legitimacy and there is total disconnect between it and the people,Central Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra has said.

It is here that the RTI is helping,he added,at a book release function here yesterday evening. I think more than the people,it is the government that has gained by the RTI. By opening up its offices to public scrutiny,the government has been able to regain some of its legitimacy.

Government of any kind democratic,dictatorial,monarchy needs legitimacy to sustain. The government in India,unfortunately,has been losing legitimacy and today one can very safely say that there is total disconnect between the people and government, Mishra said.

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In such a scenario,the RTI Act has emerged as a way for the government to get back its legitimacy by inviting people into its core realm the office space.

This Act makes people a partner of governments decision-making, Mishra said,adding the legitimacy restoration that it has started will eventually make people feel the government is their own.  With PTI

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