Edited sentence: Consistent with this development similar laws were enacted in various countries all around the world, which led to a demand among the Indian intelligentsia for a similar law.It was in accordance with this need that President Lyndon B Johnson of the United States first enacted a law regarding freedom of information in 1969.Owing to this demand the Indian parliament passed the right to information act on 15 June 2005, which came into full force on 13 October 2005.Since the end of imperial age human beings all around the world have increasingly enjoyed certain basic rights, but as democracies developed a need for a legislation to bring more transparency into the democratic process was realized