Social Science (087) — AI-generated practice question

The RTI Act is a tool of transparency — it allows citizens to access information held by the government. When the daily-wage earner filed an RTI request, officials were made accountable for their earlier denial, as they now had to justify or act on the application.

This connects directly to dignity: the textbook states that democracy promotes the dignity and freedom of ordinary individuals and transforms people "from the status of a subject into that of a citizen." By using RTI, the worker exercised his democratic right, compelling the system to treat him as an equal — not someone to be ignored.

Thus, transparency enables accountability, and accountability upholds citizens' dignity in a democracy.

Source: Outcomes of Democracy (Introduction) and Dignity and freedom of the citizens — Chapter 5

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• The question links RTI to three concepts: transparency → accountability → dignity. Show the chain clearly.
• The key textbook line examiners expect: "transforms people from the status of a subject into that of a citizen" — use it or paraphrase it.
• Don't describe RTI procedures in detail; focus on the democratic outcome (dignity, accountability).
• 3 marks = roughly 3 distinct points: (1) RTI ensures transparency, (2) officials become accountable, (3) ordinary citizen's dignity/rights are upheld. One point per mark.