Public Servants and not Public Masters:
NREGA and RTI are probably two of the most potent laws ever passed in Independent India. And add impacts of Internet. The whole world knows about the Govt frailties within a week, if not 24 hours.

Like PILs (Public Interest Litigation) which came earlier, they are proving to be a strategic aid for activists and the people.

1974 Nobel winner Gunner Myrdal in his classic, The Asian Drama, prophetically wrote: "the vested interests in the 3rd world are strong enough, to pass the most radical laws and yet not allow their implementation."
The Internet and faster communications, has changed all that. It is holding the bureaucracy's foot to fire of the laws. And stopping the politicians from manipulating the babus.

That is why you found P.M. Manmohan Singh's Govt trying to amend the RTI (File notes to be kept out of public eye, was the issue). Or Orissa Govt messing up the rules of RTI, so they can not be implemented, in true spirit. The letters of the RTI, law are messed up/misinterpreted in Orissa/India to give the politician/ bureaucrat nexus, some cover for their misdeeds.

Similarly you will see this year, if we can hold the NREGA to its words - a bureaucratic effort to dilute it. But if there is a sincere effort and there is civil society involvement - this is not going to happen. Like efforts of amending RTI Act, this too is going to be stalled by the big roar of the civil society.

Let us take advantage of the situation (coming off age of the civil society) and make "pubic servants", aware of what they are: public servants. Many of them behave as if, the public has hired some " public masters".