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Perhaps the biggest contribution of our Parliament to wards promoting greater accountability in independent India is the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. If, as they say, information is power, then the RTI Act has been a veritable 'Brahmastra' in the hands of the Indian public. It has been extremely successful in empowering people with information held by public authorities.

Countless Indians are now able to check the status of their ration cards, below poverty line (BPL) cards, passports, application for public schemes etc. An important reason why this has been so is because the Act has an effective and reasonably efficient implementation machinery consisting of the state and central chief information commissioners (CICs) who have the power to give effect to the provisions of this Act.

This success story of the RTI Act has, however, encountered a significant reversal in the recent judgment of the Supreme Court in Namit Sharma?s case. In a single stroke, the court completely upset the established RTI machinery with disastrous consequences for the public at large.

However, a review of the decision is pending before the SC, and it is hoped that the court takes into account these genuine concerns while relooking at this issue.

This success story of the RTI Act has, however, encountered a significant reversal in the recent judgment of the Supreme Court. Why so?

A) Supreme Court gave a judgment upsetting the established RTI machinery.

B) Supreme Court criticized the practice of RTI.

C) Supreme Court instructed the government to kill RTI.

D) All of these

E) None of these