Interesting RTI questions

We know that Right To Information Act in India is getting popular these days. People are more frequently asking questions and making the concerned people more responsible. If you have questions and think someone need to respond, just ask it.

The questions could be as serious as the ones which put A.Raja to jail. Or, it could be as trivial as ‘who currently heads the Indian PMO? Manmohan Singh or Sonia Gandhi’ 🙂 (although irresponsible/funny questions should be avoided, i thought this question is trivial but not funny)

Sometimes kids ask some simple questions to which we adults don’t have answers. Most of the time we try to avoid the questions or tell something we think could be right. Recently came across an article about a 10-yr old girl from Lucknow, who had some basic questions, filed RTIs and got back interesting facts.

1. Who officially declared Gandhi as Father of the Nation (since we always read it in our text books)
Ans: No official declaration done till now.

2. Who declared Gandhi Jayanti, Republic day, Independence day as national holidays?
Ans: Such orders were never issued.

Yes, I agree that you could simply Google it, and the net is full of it. Probably she wanted more authentic information.