Handbook of Right to Information

Contents: Preface. 1. Right to information: an introduction. 2. Right Information Act of India (2005). 3. Right to Information Act of Karnataka (2000). 4. Freedom of Information Act of United States. 5. Right to Information Act of Delhi (2001). 6. A Citizen\'s Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act. 7. Freedom of information around the world (2006). Index.

"This is the age of information affluence. Technology, with its capacity for storing, simplifying and communicating information with astonishing speed has, more than ever, put information at the centre of development. Information is a global resource of unlimited potential for all.

Importantly, information belongs not to the state, the government of the day or civil servants, but to the public. Officials do not create information for their own benefit alone, but for the benefit of the public they serve, as part of the legitimate and routine discharge of the government\'s duties. Information is generated with public money by public servants paid out of public funds. Therefore, it cannot be unreasonably kept from citizens." (jacket)