how RTI act as a watchdog in democracy
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Right to Information Act has empowered people to act as Watchdog of democracy in the following ways:
1.This law helps control corruption and supplement the existing laws that ban corruption and impose stick penalties.
2.This act has given people and extensive right to know what is happening in the government.
3. This law helps to know who has taken the decision as per the established norms and procedures. So the executives have to think twice before taking any biased decision.
4. This act enables people to know about every detail of any program from the level of planning to implementation. By this people can know lapse, misappropriation,etc, if committed by any official and file a complaint.
5. Buy this law people are empowered with the right to know the source of income, details of Expenditure e.t.c.This puts an effective control over the government officials by dealing with the funds.