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Discuss the Right to information and underline challenges being posed before it.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 15 marks
  • Social Movements

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Since State of U.P. v. Raj Narain (1975) the Supreme Court has read a right to know into Article 19(1)(a); the Right to Information Act 2005 made it enforceable. Amartya Sen counts transparency guarantees among the instrumental freedoms of development. In India, the right was pulled from below, not granted from above.

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  • A Right Written from Below
  • What the Act Does
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