The Lokayukta will remain a toothless tiger until more and more people in the state make complaints and bring up cases of abuse of office, corruption or lack of integrity against public servant

Chief information commissioner of Manipur Information Commission Oinam Sunil said that the RTI Act is one of the most effective tools to bring transparency and accountability in the government.

A delegation led by Opposition leader and former chief minister Mukul Sangma also sought the governor’s intervention for immediate release of the pending salaries to the employees and for holding of elections to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) with no further delay.

'RTI is a wonderful tool to regulate or control corruption rather than completely eradicate it and the important part is to understand when to apply an RTI for it to be most effective.'

Power meant nothing when our own people's fate lies undecided, where poverty, corruption and crime rate has engulfed each passing day.

It will not be wrong to say that the custom or tradition of Corruption may call the second-oldest profession.