What do the Right to Information Act and the Information Commissioners mean for Indians?
The Act, which was passed in 2005, allows citizens of India to request information from a “public authority”, be it a body of the government. This means, every public authority has to keep a record of what it does so that it can be easily shared with people... within 30 days if and when it is asked for.
So, if I had to crunch it down to one single word, it'd be: transparency. That's what the Bill is worth.