Information' of both the above categories belongs to the public, generated or collected using public money, served by public servants and paid out of public funds. Public participation in the democratic and governmental process is at its meaningful best when citizens have adequate access to all information available under the control of government which includes all types of documents produced by government and acquired and maintained by government at libraries or other departments as well as administrative data/information generated by the process of day to day administrative operations.
Ensuring access to both these types of information only can ensure good governance, transparency, accountability and participation. The fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression as well as the RTI is meaningless without the requisite basic information about issues and subjects as well as information on specific administrative actions related to that on which opinions are to be formed and expressed. The RTI of both categories is, implicit in the RTI and the first category of information to be provided by libraries as much fundamental.