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Corporate Legal Framework Amit Kumar Sharma, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 4: Information Technology Act, 2000

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
4.1 Right to Information Act
4.1.1 What Rights are available under RTI Act, 2005?
4.1.2 Salient Features of Right to Information Act
4.2 Benefits of the RTI

4.3 Information Technology Act
4.4 Objectives of the Act
4.5 Commencement and Application
4.6 Digital Signature
4.7 Electronic Governance [Secs.4 to 16]
4.8 Secure Electronic Records and Secure Digital Signatures [Secs.14 to 16]
4.9 Digital Signature Certificates [Secs. 35 to 39]

4.10 Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal
4.11 Offences [Sec.65 to 78]
4.12 Shortcomings of the Information Technology Act, 2000
4.13 Summary
4.14 Keywords
4.15 Self Assessment
4.16 Review Questions
4.17 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Discuss Right to Information Act

Explain the benefits of RTI
Describe Information Technology Act
Introduction

In the earlier unit, you came to know about the FEMA Act. In this unit, you will study about the
information related laws.

The Right to Information (RTI) Act has been in existence for over a year. But ironically, this
Act which is full of significance in creating conditions for good governance, accountability of

the government and promoting people’s basic rights to know about government’s decisions,
actions or lack of actions and policies, remains hardly known to people for whose benefit it was

introduced in the first place. Legislations centred on RTI are in full force in many countries of the

world specially in the ones which are developed and ruled democratically.

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