{"id":296,"date":"2020-07-18T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=296"},"modified":"2020-07-18T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:20:47","slug":"engaging-citizens-to-use-the-rti-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Engaging citizens to use the RTI law"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Daily Star, December 15, 2019<br \/>Engaging citizens to use the RTI law<br \/>Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz<br \/>Those who read this column regularly are aware of its two recurring themes. First, that the Right to Information (RTI) Act is important not simply because it enables citizens to obtain information from public authorities which they may \u201cneed to know\u201d for personal reasons, but, more importantly, because it empowers them with a \u201cright to access\u201d information that sheds light on the way public offices perform their duties and spend public money. By resorting to RTI, citizens convey to public servants that they are keeping an eye on them. <a href=\"http:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/January 15, 2020.pdf\">Read More<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Star, December 15, 2019Engaging citizens to use the RTI lawShamsul Bari and Ruhi NazThose who read this column regularly are aware of its two recurring themes. First, that the Right to Information (RTI) Act is important not simply because it enables citizens to obtain information from public authorities which they may \u201cneed to know\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rti-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rib-rtibangladesh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}