2.3 Right to Information

Article 27 — every citizen's right to seek and receive information on matters of public importance, subject to the confidentiality laws' protections. The Right to Information Act, 2064 (2007) — the machinery: Information officers: every public body's designated responder — the request-and-response timeline discipline; Proactive disclosure: the public body's duty to publish and update information of public importance — the lists, decisions, budgets; The exemption list: the protected interests — sovereignty, security, international relations, personal privacy (the harm-based limits — Unit 6's classified-information detail); The National Information Commission: the oversight body — complaints against refusal, orders to disclose, classification review (Unit 8.1's full treatment); The media's stake: the RTI as the journalist's statutory tool — the watchdog's right-to-know realized; the information request as the investigative story's first step (Unit 4's newsgathering).