তথ্য অধিকার আইন

The Daily Star, Nov 15, 2021

Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz

The Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2009 is made of interlocking parts. We usually focus on two of its main protagonists: citizens, for whose empowerment the law was enacted in the first place, and public authorities, who are required by the law to respond to legitimate information requests. Today, we will focus on another key element of the system—the Information Commission of Bangladesh.

The role of the Information Commission in implementing the RTI Act takes up more than half of the entire written text. And this is for good reason, because the law has entrusted the commission with a wide range of activities to carry out the purposes of the law. The “purposes” are facilitating citizens’ participation in the affairs of the state so that “transparency and accountability of all public (offices) shall increase, corruption… shall decrease and good governance… shall be established.”…Read More