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Ghuman, B. S., and Mohammad Sohail. "Right to Information Act, 2005 in India: A Decadal Experience." Indian Journal of Public Administration 63, no. 2 (June 2017): 228–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556117699737.

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Right to Information (RTI) Act emerged as a powerful instrument for taming corruption in the functioning of public authorities by promoting transparency and accountability. The Act has completed ten years but the challenges hindering the successful implementation of the Act are still looming large. The Act is slowly moving away from its goal owing to many factors, such as lack of awareness, improper maintenance of records, poor compliance to public disclosure of information mentioned under Section 4 of the Act, inconvenient fee depositing mechanism, lack of sustained training mechanism for employees, misuse of the Act, pendency of appeals before Information Commissions and lack of legislative measures for protection of whistleblowers. For making the Act a success, it is essential to conduct massive awareness campaigns for citizens, to maintain proper official records for facilitating provision of information under the Act, ensuring suo motu disclosure of information mentioned under Section 4 of the Act, use of information and communication technology in the implementation of the Act, making available convenient fee depositing options, conducting training programmes for officials involved in the implementation of the Act, and, finally, enacting a strong whistleblowers’ protection Act.
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Naveen, _______, and _____ Priti. "The Right to Information in India Implementation and Impact." International Research Journal of Management, IT & Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/irjmis.v2i1.55.

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The Right to Information Act 2005 was passed by the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) Government with a sense of pride. It flaunted the Act as a milestone in India’s democratic journey. It is five years since the RTI was passed; the performance on the implementation frontis far from perfect. Consequently, the impact on the attitude, mindset and behaviour patterns of the public authorities and the people is not as it was expected to be. Most of the people are still not aware of their newly acquired power. Among those who are aware, a major chunk either does not know how to wield it or lacks the guts and gumption to invoke the RTI. A little more stimulation by the Government, NGOs and other enlightened and empowered citizens can augment the benefits of this Act manifold. RTI will help not only in mitigating corruption in public life but also in alleviating poverty- the two monstrous maladies of India.
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Borpatragohain, R. C. "Safeguarding the Dignity of Women under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2013-A Critical Analysis." Space and Culture, India 1, no. 2 (November 28, 2013): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v1i2.30.

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This viewpoint aims to analyse the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2013 from a legal perspective. In doing so, it discusses the statutory safeguards of rights to a dignified life of a woman by analysing the various existing laws, which have been significantly amended to build the Criminal Act, 2013. These laws are: Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860; Indian Evidence Act 1872, Code of Criminal Procedure as amended in 1973, Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act 1956, Information Technology Act 2000, The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000, The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013. In the conclusion, I urge that although efficient laws are in operation in India towards protecting the right to live with dignity of women, however, incidents of violence against women are on the rise. Hence, a concerted effort in bringing appropriate attitudinal change is the task ahead for all Indians.
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Mohapatra, Satyakam. "Right to information act, 2005 and privacy in public mental health sector in India." Asian Journal of Psychiatry 19 (February 2016): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2015.11.011.

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Mehdi, Haider. "Right to Information Act 2005: Its Uses and Abuses in Indian Context." Asian Man (The) - An International Journal 11, no. 1 (2017): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0975-6884.2017.00011.1.

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Agrawal, Vidhi, and Hari Nair. "From Jan Sunwai to Rajasthan Right to Hearing Act 2012: Fostering Transparency and Accountability through Citizen Engagement." Studies in Indian Politics 6, no. 2 (September 24, 2018): 282–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023018797537.

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This study examines the evolution of the movement for transparency towards redressing grievances and holding public servants accountable to the people. It explains how three legislations—Right to Information Act (RTI, India, 2005), Rajasthan Guaranteed Delivery of Public Services Act (RGDPS, 2011) and the Right to Hearing Act (RTH, Rajasthan, 2012)—form part of a continuum in the people’s struggle for transparency. The analysis of the three acts as a continuum is significant because together these are gradually changing the administration-centric Indian polity into a citizen-centric one. If the RTI Act ensured an informed citizenry, the RGDPS Act recognized the government’s duty to provide public services and the RTH Act guaranteed that the people were heard by the government. This right to hearing may be traced back to the Jan Sunwai, which was a pivotal forum in the struggle for transparency because it functioned as a dialogical space between the people and the state, as well as a forum for social auditing and civic engagement. Of late however, the Jan Sunwai is being transformed by digital technology. This transformation poses the challenge of converting a participatory polity alive with people’s voices into a transactional state regimented by technology.
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Dhaka, Rajvir S. "The Information Commissions in India: A Jurisprudential Explication of Their Powers and Functions." Indian Journal of Public Administration 64, no. 4 (August 13, 2018): 703–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556118788481.

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The Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, provides for the Constitution of the State Information Commissions (SICs) and the Central Information Commission (CICs) for acting as the final appellate authorities. These Information Commissions have been entrusted with statutory powers while hearing complaints and appeals. These Commissions also enjoy the power to impose penalty and to recommend disciplinary action against the public information officers. Besides, there prevails large-scale confusion in them regarding the contents of Sections 18–20. This has culminated in adverse comments on their decisions by the Supreme Court (SC) and the High Courts (HC). An attempt is being made in this article to evaluate the functioning of these commissions and also about the interpretations given by various High Courts (HCs) and the Supreme Court (SC) about the Constitution, transaction of business and powers of the Information Commissions.
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Momen, Md Nurul, Harsha S., and Debobrata Das. "Mediated democracy and internet shutdown in India." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 19, no. 2 (December 18, 2020): 222–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-07-2020-0075.

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Purpose This paper aims to highlight the very recent cases of internet shutdown during the creation of Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and enactment of Citizenship Amendment Act and the detention under Section 66 (A) of Information Technology Act 2000. Design/methodology/approach This study takes up a broad explorative discussion of the challenges posed to the consolidation of democracy in India due to frequent internet shutdowns for online communication and social media usages. Findings As findings, it is narrated that due to politically motivated reasons, India compromises its commitment to the pluralism and diversity in views, in particular, individual rights to freedom of expression and opinion, enshrined in the constitution. Originality/value Right to freedom of speech and expression has now taken a new shape due to the emergence and availability of the internet that enriches the quality of democracy.
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Gupta, Sangita Dutta, Ajitava Raychaudhuri, and Sushil Kumar Haldar. "Information technology and profitability: evidence from Indian banking sector." International Journal of Emerging Markets 13, no. 5 (November 29, 2018): 1070–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoem-06-2017-0211.

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Purpose Information Technology has transformed the banking sector with respect to various systems and processes. Banks have adopted various measures to quicken their business activity and also save cost and time. That is why there has been large requirement of IT in the banking sector. The question arises whether this investment is enhancing the profitability of the bank or not. The purpose of this paper is to examine the presence of profitability paradox in Indian Banking Sector. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected from ten nationalized banks and three private sector banks from 2006 to 2013. The impact of IT expenditure on return on assets and profit efficiency is examined. Profit efficiency is determined using Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Data are collected from annual reports of the banks. Data on IT expenditure are collected through Right to Information Act 2005. Correlation and Panel Regression are used to investigate the relationship between IT expenditure and ROE or Profit Efficiency. Findings The findings of the paper confirm the presence of profitability paradox in the Indian Banking sector. Research limitations/implications Extension of this study to other developing countries of the world will help to identify if any common pattern is there among the developing countries as far as productivity or profitability paradox is concerned. Originality/value There are some studies on the impact of IT on the banking sector in USA and Europe. This type of study however is rare in the context of India or for that matter other developing countries. Therefore, this paper will add new dimension to the existing literature and pave the way for future research in this area.
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Gopalan, Aparna. "Rights-Politics and the Politics of Rights in Neoliberal India." Social Change 50, no. 2 (June 2020): 307–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049085720920238.

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In 1991, the Indian economy, was finally proclaimed liberalised from the control of the state; the market was now to be the sole engine of growth, development and poverty alleviation. But just over a decade later, a series of rights-based legislations––rights to food, work, information, education, and forests were seen as challenging the market’s dominance over an anti-poverty agenda and heralding the birth of India’s welfare state. These rights-based legislations have animated a growing field of social scientific inquiry which assesses the genesis and career of the different pro-poor laws that have passed since 2005. This paper reviews two recent contributions to that scholarship: Rob Jenkins and James Manor’s Politics and the Right to Work and Indrajit Roy’s Politics of the Poor, both of which are concerned with the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). After contextualising the two books within an emerging legal activism and providing an in-depth discussion of their key concepts, arguments and methods, attention is paid to each author's explanation of the contradictions between India’s neoliberal economy and welfare state. In conclusion, the strengths and limitations of prevailing approaches studying India’s poverty alleviation programmes are discussed and it is suggested that a theoretical cross-fertilisation with neoliberalism studies could further reinvigorate and give shape to this promising literature.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "India. Right to Information Act, 2005"

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Sharma, Prashant. "The right to information act in India : the turbid world of transparency reforms." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/579/.

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The enactment of the national Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005 has been produced, consumed and celebrated as an important event of democratic deepening in India both in terms of the process that led to its enactment (arising from a grassroots movement) as well as its outcome (fundamentally altering the citizen-state relationship). This thesis problematises this narrative and proposes that the explanatory factors underlying this event may be more complex than thus far imagined. First, the leadership of the grassroots movement was embedded within the ruling elite and possessed the necessary resources as well as unparalleled access to spaces of power for the movement to be successful. Second, the democratisation of the higher bureaucracy along with the launch of the economic liberalisation project meant that the urban, educated, high-caste, upper-middle-class elite that provided critical support to the demand for an RTI Act was no longer vested in the state and had moved to the private sector. Mirroring this shift, the framing of the RTI Act during the 1990s saw its ambit reduced to the government, even as there was a concomitant push to privatise public goods and services. Third, the thesis locates the Indian RTI Act within the global explosion of freedom of information laws over the last two decades, and shows how international pressures, embedded within a reimagining of the role of the state vis-à-vis the market, had a direct and causal impact both on its content, as well as the timing of its enactment. Taking the production of the RTI Act as a lens, the thesis finally argues that while there is much to celebrate in the consolidation of procedural democracy in India over the last six decades, existing economic, social and political structures may limit the extent and forms of democratic deepening occurring in the near future.
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Books on the topic "India. Right to Information Act, 2005"

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Awasthi, Shailendra Kumar. The Right to Information Act, 2005 (Act no. 22 of 2005). Allahabad: Dwivedi Law Agency, 2008.

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Naib, Sudhir. The Right to Information Act 2005: A handbook. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Shekhar, Singh, National Campaign for Peoples Right to Information., and National Book Trust, eds. Right to Information Act, 2005: A primer. New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 2007.

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Yeshwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration. Right to Information Cell., ed. Right to Information Act, 2005: A primer. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., 2006.

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Kumar, Niraj. Bharat's handbook on Right to Information Act, 2005. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Bharat Law House, 2009.

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Kumar, Niraj. Bharat's treatise on Right to Information Act, 2005. 3rd ed. New Delhi: Bharat Law House, 2011.

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Kumar, Niraj. Bharat's treatise on Right to Information Act, 2005. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Bharat Law House, 2009.

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Devasher, Mandakini. Your guide to using the Right to Information Act, 2005. Edited by Rodrigues Charmaine, Nayak Venkatesh, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, and India. New Delhi: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, 2010.

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Devasher, Mandakini. Your guide to using the Right to Information Act, 2005. Edited by Rodrigues Charmaine, Nayak Venkatesh, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, and India. New Delhi: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, 2006.

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India. The Right to information Act, 2005: A non-technical exposition. [New Delhi: s.n.], 2006.

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Sharma, Prashant. "Turbid Transparency: Retelling the Story of the Right to Information Act in India." In Social Movements and the State in India, 141–59. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59133-3_7.

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Naib, Sudhir. "Right to Information in India." In The Right to Information Act 2005, 21–39. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198067474.003.0002.

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Balasubramaniam, Dr R., and M. N. Venkatachaliah. "Information indeed is power – people and their right to information." In I, the Citizen. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713514.003.0004.

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This chapter focuses on the passing of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005, an important milestone in the history of democratic India which conferred upon common people the right to request information from any ‘public authority’. This Act, comparable to the Freedom of Information Act (USA) has tremendous potential to tackle corruption and asymmetry of information in public, and it is therefore imperative that every citizen of the country knows about this act. The chapter then looks at how the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) undertook a campaign-on-foot to create awareness about RTI among the people of some 120 villages in 2008. Covering five districts in South Karnataka, the campaigners interacted with thousands of people in about a month on not just people's right to information, but also on different issues related to democratic development including corruption, accountability, and citizen's responsibility.
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Chakrabarti, Rajesh, and Kaushiki Sanyal. "Leveraging Grass-roots Activism." In Shaping Policy in India, 95–121. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199475537.003.0004.

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This chapter sketches the evolution of the RTI Act. After pointing out far-reaching consequences of the Right to Information Act, and the worldwide move towards transparency, the chapter traces the judicial activism towards transparency between 1975 and 1996, till it became part of the Janata Dal’s election manifesto in 1989. Still things did not progress much till in 1995, a major workshop on RTI was held at LBSNAA on the subject. A long tug of war ensued as government came and fell till the bill was introduced in 2000. The Freedom of Information Bill passed in 2002 but was never notified. The grassroots efforts by MKSS in Rajasthan since 1990 played a major role in pushing the RTI agenda forward, ultimately leading to the formation of the NCPRI. Finally, the RTI was passed in 2005. Its journey exemplifies the advocacy coalition framework.
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Worthy, Ben. "The US, Australia and India: two firsts and the greatest?" In The Politics of Freedom of Information. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097676.003.0008.

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• US: A long struggle by a small group of politicians and journalists over a decade led to numerous abortive attempts to pass legislation in the 1960s. The bill finally became the 1966 FOI Act following a long process of negotiation in the Senate and opposition, though crucially not rejection, from the then President Lyndon Johnson (Reylea 1983: Yu and Davies 2012). • Australia: the Australian FOI policy development, beginning in the 1970s and ending in 1982, was a long series of advances and retreats. The proposed legislation was alternatively weakened during its passage, with crusaders both in government and in the Senate seeking to preserve key features against bureaucratic and political opposition (Snell 2001: Terrill 1998). • India: the traditional view of Indian Right to Information Act is of a remarkable grassroots alliance of dedicated reformers pushed openness legislation from the local level upwards during the 1990s and 2000s (Roberts 2006: Sharma 2013). However the reality is more complex as RTI was the result of a combination of piecemeal reforms in the 1980s, shifts in elite power and support from parts of the bureaucracy and from Sonia Ghandi herself (Singh 2007: Sharma 2013).
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Mathur, Kuldeep. "Social Mobilization for Public Accountability." In Recasting Public Administration in India, 136–50. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199490356.003.0013.

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This chapter examines administrative accountability through the democratic pillar of public transparency. One of the pillars of democratic accountability is the availability of adequate information in the public domain about the functioning government. It has taken a social movement for transparency in government to establish people’s right to information through the passage of the Right to Information Act in 2005. However, traditional administration has not reconciled to its demands and PPPs are kept out of its purview on the plea that they are not public authorities. The Lok Pal (ombudsman) Bill has been passed in response to another struggle of civil society.
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Kaur, Rajinder, and Prabal Mehrotra. "Data Protection." In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Business Convergence, Computing, and Legality, 208–15. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4209-6.ch019.

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The right to privacy, characterised by Justice Brandeis in Olmestead v. United States (1928)277 US 438 as the “right to be let alone: the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilised men,” is recognized under India’s constitution by the Supreme Court in four rulings: Kharak Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Ors. AIR 1963 SC 1295; Govind v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Anr. (1975)2 SCC 148; R. Rajagopal alias R.R. Gopal and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors. (1994)6 SCC 632; and District Registrar and Collector, Hyderabad and Anr. v. Canara Bank (2005)1 SCC 496.1 This aim of this chapter is to analyze the legislative provisions prevalent in India, especially those afforded by the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India, and also the legislative provisions accorded to data protection in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, so as to be able to reach a conclusion that will address the need for data protection law(s).
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Das, S. K. "Right to Information Act, 2005." In India's Rights Revolution, 37–97. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198081661.003.0002.

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Naib, Sudhir. "Freedom of Information." In The Right to Information Act 2005, 1–19. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198067474.003.0001.

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Naib, Sudhir. "Information Exempted from Disclosure." In The Right to Information Act 2005, 144–90. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198067474.003.0007.

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Unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion: Data from men and women in Rajasthan, India. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh17.1015.

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This report is the result of a collaborative project between the Population Council and the Centre for Operations Research and Training, conducted as part of a Council program of research on unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion in Rajasthan, India. Designed as a complement to service-delivery activities being undertaken in Rajasthan by the Indian nongovernmental reproductive health service provider Parivar Seva Sanstha, the program of research aimed to provide a multifaceted picture of the on-the-ground realities related to unwanted pregnancy and abortion in six districts of Rajasthan. Detailed pregnancy histories yielded data on levels of unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion in the sampled areas in Rajasthan. As noted in this report, the legal right to abortion is not a reality for the majority of women in the sample in Rajasthan. Women have strong desires to meet their reproductive intentions, but existing methods of family planning and abortion services are not meeting their needs. According to the report, public information campaigns to educate women, their spouses, and other family members about the legal right to abortion, as well as efforts to revise the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, are imperative if access to abortion services is to improve.
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