Digital Personal Data Protection Act के बहाने सरकार का RTI पर एक और हमला https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TtT9_Y6uUY | Report
newslaundry Mar 27, 2025
On the one hand, while the central government is preparing to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, on the other hand, it is being widely opposed by social organizations. The organizations allege that the Government of India recently made some amendments in the Right to Information Act i.e. RTI on the basis of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Due to which the Right to Information Act can be weakened considerably.
In this connection, on March 25, about 34 organizations including the National Public Information Rights Campaign held a high-level meeting including MPs of opposition parties at the Constitution Club in Delhi. The MPs were apprised of what dangers can be caused by this new amendment and it should be opposed in Parliament.
Apart from social organizations, MPs of Congress, Trinamool Congress, DMK, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) attended the meeting.
Apart from this, representatives of all these organizations also met the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi. ITI activist Anjali Bhardwaj, who was leading the meeting, said, "The government is using DPDP as a weapon to control information and common citizens, journalists and social organizations will all come under its purview."
How is the government weakening RTI through this law? What impact will the implementation of this law have on the Right to Information? And what did the opposition MPs who came to the meeting say about this law?