The American: New Delhi: Wednesday,
September 21, 2016.
The Indian
government has received a number of ridiculous and senseless queries filed
under the Right to Information (RTI) Act since the law came into existence in
2005.
Many of such
queries have made headlines because of their funny nature. One of such RTI
requests filed by a Mumbai man under the RTI took social media by storm on
Tuesday due to the weird questions he asked.
Ajay Kumar, from
Mumbai, was deeply concerned about the ability of the government to handle an
invasion by aliens, zombies, and extra-dimensional beings’. So he filed an RTI
with the Ministry of Home Affairs raising his questions in the issue.
The following
were the questions for which Kumar sought an answer from the ministry.
What plans
are in place for protecting the public in the event of an invasion by aliens or
zombies or extra dimensional beings?
What are our
chances against them?
What means
does the government have at its disposal to defeat them?
And the best
question was the last one.
Referring to
the 1996 sci-fi movie Independence Day, Kumar asked, Can we do it without Will
Smith?
Though the
query was filed in March, it went viral after journalist Abhimanyu Ghoshal
posted the same on Twitter.
However, it
is not sure whether the ministry had replied to the queries of the citizen who
is concerned about the security of the nation. Earlier the government had
received many RTI files asking bizarre questions like, what was Mahatma
Gandhi’s IQ, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had acted in Ramlila, and how many
trees are green in the country.
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