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12th October 2022

QUIZ - 12th October 2022

5 Questions

5 Minutes

Mains Question:

Question: How far do you think that the Right to Information in India has brought in a sense of ‘transparency’ the governance structure? (150 words)

Approach

Introduction- brief about RTI (implicit in the “right to life” under Article 21)
Need in India
- Rapid increase in corruption
- Unawareness about utilisation of public fund
Significance of RTI
- strongest pieces of legislation at the disposal of the common man
- promoting transparency, and demanding accountability
- against corruption
Discuss how good governance and RTI are complimentary to each other
- natural corollary of good governance
- effective means to promote democratic ideology
- Free flow of information, informed citizenry
Conclude accordingly

Editorials

Solutions by the people, for the people

Polity & Governance

Context:

Policy-making has to become more inclusive and less dominated by the powerful and the wealthy, while a paradigm shift is needed in problem-solving at global and national levels.

Need for a shift:

Health of Planet: In pursuit of GDP, the Club of Rome gave a wake-up call in 1972, by introducing the health of the planet into calculations of profit and growth.
Thatcher-Reagan-Chicago” model of neoliberalism: It marks a transition from welfarist to monetarist. In a way, it wants governments out of the way to let private entrepreneurs loose.
Unfair Global Financial System: Global financial system protects the interests of large corporations. Now the demand to include the needs of ‘People’ in economic policy is becoming louder.

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