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Contents
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Nov 2013 examination, in the order it was set.
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 100 · 25 questions answered
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Q.1
Answer in short, not more than two sentences 20 Marks
(a)What is the basic aim of Right to Information Act 2005?[2]
Answer
The basic aim of the Right to Information Act, 2005 is to set up a practical regime under which any citizen can obtain information held by a public authority, so that government becomes transparent and accountable and corruption is contained.
1. The aim in the Act's own words. The Preamble says that democracy requires an informed citizenry and transparency of information, which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed. The long title describes the object as securing access to information under the control of public authorities.
2. The balance the Act itself admits. The Preamble goes on to say that revelation of information in actual practice is likely to conflict with other public interests, including the efficient operation of Governments, the optimum use of limited fiscal resources and the preservation of the confidentiality of sensitive information. The Act is therefore a harmonising statute, not an absolute one, which is why sections 8 and 9 contain exemptions.
3. Where the right comes from. The Act does not create the right; it makes an existing constitutional right workable. The right to information is part of the freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a). State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain AIR 1975 SC 865 held that the people of this country have a right to know every public act; S.P. Gupta v. Union of India 1981 Supp SCC 87 and Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting v. Cricket Association of Bengal (1995) 2 SCC 161 carried it further.
4. How the aim is worked out. Every public authority must appoint a Public Information Officer, must publish key information on its own motion under section 4 so that citizens need not ask at all, and must answer a request within thirty days, or forty eight hours where life or liberty is involved. An applicant need not give reasons. Refusals go to a first appeal inside the authority and then to the Central or State Information Commission, which can order disclosure and impose a penalty on a defaulting officer.
Note on the current text. Section 8(1)(j), the personal-information exemption, was substituted by section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, brought into force on 13 November 2025. Personal information is now exempt as such, and the public-interest test that used to sit inside clause (j) is gone, though the overriding power in section 8(2) survives.
Conclusion. The basic aim is transparency and accountability: to move the administration from a presumption of secrecy inherited from the Official Secrets Act, 1923 to a presumption of disclosure, by giving every citizen an enforceable and cheap right to information, subject only to the exemptions the Act itself specifies.
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