Social audit and RTI are legal provisions created to encourage people participation, with an obligation on the state to enable such participation. If the state becomes a mute spectator to attacks on activists using these provisions it is no less than leading lambs to the slaughter. The State must act decisively to make sure that all these efforts result in the strongest action against corruption and violence. The rest of us must ensure that they do so now.
The writers are NREGA-RTI activists and founding members of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan. Aruna Roy was in the IAS between 1968 and 1975
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