Right to Information Act and Record Management System in Bangladesh Muhammad Lutful Haq Archives without borders August, 30th 2010 Peace Palace, The Hague

1. Right to Information Act and Records Management System in Bangladesh

2. Introduction

26. Relation between Right to Information and Records Management

28. More than 70 countries have enacted RTI Act; but only a fewer have also revised or modernized their RM legislations. Thus in many countries acts or rules related to RM are mostly out dated.

29. Records Management in Bangladesh

33. Records Management in Right to Information Act 2009

38. Conclusion

39. On 14 th July 2010, Chief Information Commissioner pointed out that record keeping is very poor in Bangladesh and there is an urgent need for keeping records digitally.