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RTI Act

The proposed amendment to the Right to Information Act, to exempt file notings, marks the triumph of bureaucracy, which is the bane of India. It breeds corruption and is very powerful. An honest bureaucrat need not have any fear regarding file notings. If the amendment goes through, the purpose of the Act will be lost.

P. Isaac Prabhakar,
Vijayawada, A.P.

While there is a case for disclosing file notings, there is an equally important reason to withhold them. There have been many instances where men of integrity have suffered for being straight and the system could hardly do anything.

The Act has come into force very recently. There has hardly been any preparation in government departments to deal with its implementation. A system in which officials of lower ranks get penalised even for what their superiors do should be done away with. The decision-making process needs to be re-evaluated. The staff need to be trained. Until then some things can wait.

Ranjan Kumar,
New Delhi

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