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Link filing RTI-applications with Aadhaar Card

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At a time when central government is linking every aspect of day-to-day life with Aadhaar Card, it is high time that filing RTI applications may also be linked to Aadhaar Card mainly to prevent filing fake RTI applications in name of others and to prevent misuse of RTI Act, with the phenomenon now being quite common. Linking RTI with Aadhaar Card will also make people file RTI applications with responsibility. There is absolutely no logic in the baseless argument that attaching Identity-proof with RTI applications will reveal identity of the applicant, because identity is already disclosed through name and contact-details including address given on an RTI application. Attaching copy of Aadhaar Card will just verify about correctness of identity-details given in the RTI application. Provision if recorded in database will reveal persons making frequent use of transparency Act. Rather Department of personnel and Training (DoPT) is duty-bound for making attachment of ID proof compulsory with every RTI application because of clear directions by Punjab and Haryana High Court in its order dated November 2, 2012 in the matter -Fruit & Merchant Union vs Unknown (CWP 4787 of 2011).

Madhu Agrawal

(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)

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