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10 important facts related to the right to information act

1. Before the formation of a central law in the context of Right to Information, nine states of the country-Tamil Nadu  (1997), Goa (1997), Rajasthan (2000), Karnataka (2000), Delhi (2001), Assam (2002), Madhya Pradesh (2003), Maharashtra (2002), Jammu and Kashmir (2004), this right was given to the people.

 

2. Karnataka is the first state in which the right to information has been tried. However, he did not get success.

 

3. The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly passed the Right to Information Bill on April 17, 1997. Thus, the credit for making such a law in India went to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Karunanidhi. 

 

4. Three months later, in July 1997, the Goa Legislative Assembly passed the bill and got the distinction of being the second state.

 

5. The Madhya Pradesh government prepared the Madhya Pradesh Right to Information Bill in 1996. In 1997,  it faced heavy opposition in the cabinet. In 1998, the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed this bill and surprisingly sent it to the President instead of the Governor for approval. This bill was never returned. Five years later, in 2003, the Madhya Pradesh  Legislative Assembly again passed a new bill and implemented it. (However, between 1995 and 1997, the Commissioner of Bilaspur division of Madhya Pradesh Harsh Mander made significant efforts for transparency in documents related to the public distribution system, transport, rural development schemes, literacy, and employment).

 

6. Rajasthan is the state where the first and most vigorous movement for the Right to Information took place. Due to heavy public pressure, in 1995, Chief Minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat assured the assembly that soon the Right to Information would be implemented, but the people had to make continuous agitation for the next five years. In May 2000, the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly passed the Right to Information Bill.

 

7. The Right to Information Bill was passed in Maharashtra on December 11, 2000, but it was very weak. It contained restrictions on various important information. Therefore, informants found this law extremely inadequate. This was the reason that Anna Hazare pressurized the state to enact a better law by running a vigorous agitation. The Maharashtra government constituted a committee on 10 September 2001 to prepare a new bill and in April 2002,  the new bill was introduced in the assembly. Also, an ordinance was promulgated on September 23, 2002. In March 2003, both houses of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly passed the bill and received the assent of the President on 10 August 2003. This ordinance was deemed to have come into force with effect on September 23, 2002.

 

8. The Right to Information Bill was passed in Delhi in May 2001 and came into force on October 02, 2001.

 

9. Uttar Pradesh passed the Code of Practice on Access to Information, 2000. However, due to its very limited provisions, it did not see much relevance.

 

10. Finally in the year 2005, the Central Law of Information came out in its true form.

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