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    Home / News / India News / No such thing as too much information in democracy: President
    No such thing as too much information in democracy: President
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    No such thing as too much information in democracy: President

    Written by Garima Bora
    (PTI desk)
    October 12, 2018 | 04:35 pm 2 min read
    No such thing as too much information in democracy: President

    President Ram Nath Kovind strongly advocated for transparency in governance, saying there is no such thing as "too much information" in a democracy and information overload is always preferable to a deficit. Inaugurating the 13th annual convention of the Central Information Commission, the highest appellate authority in RTI matters, the President also made a strong pitch for the declassification procedure and maintenance of archives.

    Half-a-million public information officers appointed under RTI Act: Kovind

    "There is also need to look at our declassification protocols for government and archival documents, and see how we can modernize these," President Kovind said. The President said India has appointed half-a-million public information officers under the RTI Act with the estimated requests for information touching as high as six million requests a year which are astounding numbers.

    RTI is about nurturing trust between citizen and state: Kovind

    Kovind said RTI is about nurturing the social contract of trust between the citizen and the state, where both must have faith in each other. "A related and parallel implication is to ensure rational use of public resources to check instances of corruption," he said.

    Kovind talks about the goals of RTI

    To inform, trust and ultimately empower ordinary citizens are admirable goals, but frankly, they're not ends in themselves, Kovind said. "It's only when we link this process to the realization of definite objectives that engage, enable and ensure efficiency and so serve to make life that much better for the citizen that we complete the narrative of democracy," he said.

    RTI Act came into force 13 years ago

    Earlier, speaking on the occasion, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Jitendra Singh, requested the gathering of information commissioners, activists, information officers and people to find out if "unnecessary RTI applications" can be reduced as much of the information is readily available on government websites. The Right to Information Act came into force on October 12, 2005.

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