Has the Right to Information (RTI) become a double-edged sword? So say many bureaucrats, who complain that they spend half their working hours trying to answer inane queries from the chief information commissioner’s office.
One senior bureaucrat said he had to answer frivolous queries regarding whom he entertained in his official capacity, what he spent and how many packets of napkins had his office used in a year!
Often, many bureaucrats suspect, some of the queries are instigated by subordinates in their own department or ministry in order to get even with their bosses.
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