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THE

RTI

STORY

Aruna Roy resigned from the IAS in 1975 to work with peasants and workers in rural Rajasthan. In 1990 she helped co-found the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS). The MKSS struggles in the mid-90s for wages and other rights gave birth to the now celebrated Right to Information movement. Aruna continues to be a part of many democratic struggles and campaigns.

This book is a collective history that tells the story of how ordinary people can come together and prevail against great odds, to make democracy more meaningful.

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Dedication

This narrative is dedicated to the many who have paid with their lives, for combating corruption and the arbitrary use of power, by claiming the right to know.

Tribute

This book is a tribute to the large collective, from whose action, determination, memory and records a narrative has emerged. The stories, anecdotes and the common sense of its logic in the pages to come, including the many edited out which remain anonymous for the time being, because of prosaic things like word limits and the number of pages are its real authors. We are mere scribes.

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE

Devdungri: The Beginning

CHAPTER TWO

Sohangarh and the Struggle for Land

CHAPTER THREE

The Concept and Birth of the MKSS

CHAPTER FOUR

The First Hunger Strike, 1990

CHAPTER FIVE

The Bhim Minimum Wages Sammelan

CHAPTER SIX

The Second Hunger Strike, 1991 A Watershed

CHAPTER SEVEN

Exposing the Myth of the Free and Open Market

CHAPTER EIGHT

Articulating the Demand for Transparency

CHAPTER NINE

MKSS and Public Hearings

CHAPTER TEN

Political Promises and Accountability

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Hamara Paisa Hamara Hisab: Beawar and Jaipur Dharnas, 1996

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Formation of the NCPRI and the Making of the Law

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The Process and the Campaign Travel: The Public Hearings

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The Rajasthan Divisional Dharnas

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The Dharna in Jaipur: MayAugust, 1997

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

NCPRI and the State Laws

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

The Second Set of Jan Sunwais

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The Rajasthan State Act An Intermediate Success

CHAPTER NINETEEN

The Challenge of Elections

CHAPTER TWENTY

The Public Hearings in Umarwas

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Janawad Jan Sunwai

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Government Enquiry Endorses Janawad Public Hearings

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

NCPRI Convention, Beawar 2001

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

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