CPI Rajya Sabha MP P Santhosh Kumar on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing strong opposition to the latest Economic Survey that called for a re-examination of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. The Economic Survey on Thursday made a strong case for re-examining the nearly two-decade-old RTI law to exempt confidential reports and draft comments from disclosures, saying such provisions constrain governance.

It said that the RTI Act 2005 was never intended as a tool for idle curiosity, nor as a mechanism to micro-manage the government from the outside.
In a letter addressed to Modi, Kumar said, "The suggestion that the RTI Act requires 're-examination' to protect internal deliberations risks legitimising corruption and shielding wrongdoing under the guise of administrative efficiency."