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Himanshu Jha on Institutional Change in India

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Do You Think the Right to Information Act Is Also a Way of the Political Class to Keep the Executive in Check?

The right to information act is also a way of the politicians, or the elected class, to keep the emanent executive in check. The bureaucracy can take some very dire and rather extortive and corrupt forms as we see with the indian state. So there's another kind of churning which is taking place after right to informationAct was promulgated - between this nested norm of secrecy and the new norm ofe ness on the ground.

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