Opposition parties and information activists have decried the Economic Survey’s call for re-examining the RTI and questioned the rationale behind it. ADVERTISEMENT“The RTI Act was never intended as a tool for idle curiosity, nor as a mechanism to micromanage government from the outside,” it adds. Congress president and leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, pointed out that 26,000 RTI cases were pending as of last year. “Since 2014, over 100 RTI activists have been murdered, unleashing a climate of terror that punishes truth-seekers and extinguishes dissent. The State has been able to supply information for so long, so why raise this now?”

Source: The Telegraph January 31, 2026 01:35 UTC