DPDP -2023 HAVE DEBILITATING EFFECT ON THE RTI ACT -2005

Recently promulgated digital personal data protection Bill, 2023 seeks to introduce for reaching changes which are likely to have a debilitating effect on the very efficacy of Right to Information Act -2005 . Article 21 of the Constitution provides for the right to privacy and requires balancing with article 19 , which at the same time ensures freedom of speech and expression and the RTI act 2005 is a derived right from article 19 of the Constitution. Similarly the supreme Court of India has crafted privacy as an implied right under article 21 of the Constitution of India. As it is continued in force since 2005 and various orders passed by the courts and the supreme Court of India over years and has been diluted considerably through administrative and judicial reformations. The proposed changes in digital personal data protection Bill on the grounds of privacy are likely to take the residual sting out of the Right to information Act, as a tool to foster and accountability in the fight against the corruption. Section 8(1) (j) of the RTI act mandates that personal information, which can not be denied to parliament and the state legislatures has to be provided to RTI activists, /applicant.It is particularly empowered to the citizens of country and providing the genuine rights and powers to a citizen of the society and circle to have benefits of the public domain information. Now the government is taking some control and restrictions on the original RTI act publications like appointment of the data protection board and no senior official would be held responsible after this amendment of the DPDP. -2023 for which people are not satisfied with the said legislation and demanding the original publication of the former RTI law publications however the government is reluctant to do the needful and impacting the common citizens of country demanding free and fair justice from the system of governance.