RTI Turns 20: Is India’s ‘Right to Know’ Losing Its Power?
November 3, 2025—Twenty years after its enactment on June 15, 2005, the Right to Information (RTI) Act stands as one of India’s most transformative legislative triumphs, a beacon of accountability that has pierced the veil of governmental secrecy and empowered ordinary citizens to demand transparency from those in power. Emerging from the grassroots fervor of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)