RTI - Right to information act

Government of India under the governance of UPA brought in a right to the common man for knowing that what information is. The main advantage of this was said to be the ease of information or for sure a surety that you would get to know of something. This rule is handy in some cases like when I was a kid and wrote the board exams for CBSE for 10th standard and results which were not so good were printed on a chart and pasted on the school's wall and subsequently the ill fated students who were present in plenty took solace in turning that lengthy and only piece to pieces for a share of of one or two each. Poor souls like me who were just under 5'4'' tall frame just managed to be a part of mute spectator with pounding hearts hoping there would a piece left which might give a little indication of the destiny which awaited next. Unfortuantly that was not the case and in absence of any official that day and reluctance in the days to follow the result was not known for days before came a time when there was a last day to apply for the second exam which might have given me access to next standard. Needless to say that in this gap of few weeks I had to go for the umpteen numbers of nagging and accusation of withholding the information under a benifit of doubt that I had failed miserably!!

In today's time of internet and mobile boom the situation probably may not be well understood by this generations. But imagine that if there was an RTI there at that time, then perhaps I would have known my fate earlier and spared myself of all the trouble.

Of course looking at the advantage of this kind the RTI is a really laudable tool in the hand of common man to look up for. But the catchy part is that how many really are aware of the process and how much efforts worth should it be ? Should a common man's quest take weeks of running around like earlier time. And what about the other common men who are really common and are happy with the way system works if they're to make any efforts to improve it and unhappy otherwise ? .. Do they not deserve to have it ? In short why a complex procedure of finding out that to get an information where to apply and when and which format ?

Why can't all the information simply be put in the form of pages/docs/pictures on internet and left for the common people as FYI than made available by means of RTI ?

Another important point to crib about this is the fact that RTI in its current form though enables the informations access in a clumsy way though but still is a teeth less tool there is nothing one can do in spite of knowing the wrong doings.

Lets hope that someone who holds the power to made a change (Official) notice and improve the cause.