Business Standard: New Delhi: Tuesday,
November 08, 2016.
Stressing
that RTI should be used effectively, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said
the act is a powerful medium of two-way communication between the citizens and
the government.
Inaugurating the 11th annual convention of the
Central Information Commission (CIC) here, he said the Right to Information
(RTI) Act helped citizens to get information and the government to get new
ideas for formulating people-friendly policies and to reform the governance
system.
"The
government system should use it effectively," an official release quoted
him as saying.
"Our system needs to be corruption free,
smart, sensitive, transparent and answerable for making all the programmes of
the government a success and RTI can play an important role in it,"
Rajnath Singh said.
The RTI Act provides a strong foundation to the
feeling of trust and cooperation which is important for the governance based
upon trust, he added.
The minister said maximum possible information
was being made available on the websites of government departments and
agencies.
He also expressed happiness over the launch of
citizen-friendly software by the CIC where citizens can register their appeals
and complaints.
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