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The Right to Information Act, brought in after decades of civil society pressure in 2005, has been one of the UPA’s biggest achievements. It is an enforceable right of public access to official workings, a radical switch that assumes government and governed have the same interests. In its brief life, RTI-enabled investigations have shed light on large matters like the Commonwealth Games corruption, the Adarsh scam and the 2G debates within government, apart from exposing land scams and misuse of public funds, even forcing the higher judiciary to declare assets. 

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