RIGHT TO INFORMATION

About:

• The RTI Act came into force in June 2005.
  
  
• Sashidhar Mishra from Begusarai district was the first RTI activist killed in 2010 and just last week, Bipin Agrawal, 46, was killed, allegedly for exposing encroachment on government lands in East Champaran district.
  
  
• Agrawal had filed at least 900 RTI applications seeking details on government land encroachment in the district.
  
  
• In 2011, the Whistleblowers Protection Act was drafted. The Act was later renamed The Whistleblowers Protection Act, 2014 and was passed by both Houses of Parliament, but never notified.