ABSTRACT
The Right to Information (RTI) is a tool for resilience building of vulnerable communities. Making this the central argument for this chapter, the connection between resilience building and information as a plea for empowered community has been established. Some selected cases have been looked into in which the RTI has helped to expose corruption mismanagement and flawed decision making and protected natural resources from harm and destruction. The RTI has also brought to surface land records, which has enabled post-disaster compensation task much simpler and just. The RTI has also helped improve hospital conditions in vulnerable regions. The crux of the problem, which would be taken up in the conclusion, is that despite huge funding to climate change adaptation measures and disaster relief there is no other way but through the RTI that resilience of communities could be obtained and strengthened. The author finds the RTI as a support tool to bring out many hidden realities of state structures during disasters.
