Democracy
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SARAL or Secrecy? How the DPDP Rules Change RTI’s Promise
Imagine filing an RTI to understand why your local authority denied you a benefit, only to be told that the relevant file is now “personal data” and cannot be shared. That is the quiet shift India woke up to, the following month. On 14 November 2025, the Government of India notified the Digital Personal Data…
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The Journey of Right to Information in India
Right to Information (hereinafter RTI) can be referred to as a tool to ‘Empower the General Masses of the country. ‘It is a surprising fact that in such a vast country like India, which is also the world’s largest democracy, there was no any prescribed way through which the general public could access the information…