“An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.”

--- Right to Information Act, 2005

True democracy cannot be run by 20 people sitting at the centre….that should be run from the bottom by the people from each village…The power today is centered in Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai i.e. in big cities…I want to distribute it amongst seven lakh villages in India.

 

--- Mahatma Gandhi on Swaraj