 bill no ciii of 2006 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2006 a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-seventh year of the republic of india :—1  (1) this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2006short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force at once2  after article 19 of the constitution the following article shall be inserted namely:—insertion of new article 19a5right to information"19a every citizen shall have the right to seek information from the record maintained by the government explanation: in this article unless the context otherwise requires,—10(a) "government" includes any body or non-government organisation by whatever name called, owned, controlled or substantially financed directly or indirectly by funds provided by the central or the stategovernment; as the case may be(b) "record" includes any document, manuscript or file or any microfilm, microfiche or fascimile copy of the document or any reproduction of images embodied in such microfilm (whether enlarged or not) and any other material produced by a computer or any other device(c) "right to seek information" means and includes:—(i) inspection of work, documents, records; (ii) taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records; (iii) taking certified samples or material; and5(iv) obtaining information in the form of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthe right to information act, 2005, enacted by the parliament has been well received througout the country citizens in general and non-government organizations in particular, are taking full benefits of the provisions contained in the historic legislationhowever, authorities responsible to make the law effectively operational for the benefit of the society are not fully co-operating with the applicants, partly due to ignorance and partly on account of arrogancein order to make everyone realize the relevance of the right to information, it is essential that, besides enacting a legislation on the subject, the same is included in the constitution of india as a fundamental rightthis will help the applicants to seek constitutional remedy in case the appellate authorities under the act, are unduly influenced by any quarters, whatsoeversome of the countries adopting democratic form of government, in recent years, have included right to information act in their respective constitutionsfurther, on account of the economic policy of liberalization, a large number of activities presently undertaken by the government are likely to be undertaken by nongovernment organizations, directly or indirectly financed by the government if right to information is made a fundamental right, getting information from such organizations will be easier and, persons responsible to give information may not put fourth pretexts to refuse informationhence the billshantaram laxman naik rajya   sabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india ————(shri shantaram laxman naik, mp)