Ahmedabad, April 14: Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah today said that public awareness about Right To Information (RTI) Act is not as high as it should have been.
“The RTI Act is major instrument in democratisation process. The constitution had laid the foundation of democracy but the foundation has to be built upon. And RTI Act is the flowering of the process that was initiated over 60 years ago,” Habibullah said at a public lecture on ‘Challenges in Making RTI more effective’ here today.
But he said “the levels of public awareness about RTI Act is not as high as it should be. The rapidity of implementation is very slow, although compared to implementation of other laws, it is remarkably faster. The credit for which mainly goes to the NGOs”.
The Act seeks to shift the focus back to the common man.
–Agencies