Information Society Watch

2005,Sukumar Muralidharan,Seminar wed edition

Reflective of a global pattern, right to information legislation in India has evolved at the interface between the citizen (or the wider community) and state institutions. It protects specific individual and community rights of access to data of public interest and enjoins certain norms of transparency on the state. Nowhere does this family of laws bring the media into the equation. Implicitly, the laws argue that the special privileges granted to the media would not impinge on ordinary freedoms of expression of the individual.

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