By Venkatesh Nayak* During his reply on the Motion of Thanks to the Address of the President of India in the Lok Sabha on 7th February 2018, the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi compared his Government’s efforts to curb corruption and flush out black money to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan – the nation-wide mission launched to clean up cities, towns, villages and roads, build community toilets and end the practice of open defecation. He drew attention once again to is government’s emphasis on ‘transparency in governance’. Despite the clear signals from the topmost level of the Government, key departments and agencies are failing to abide by this important principle. The Ministry of Finance and one national public finance institute under its control, have both refused to reveal the research reports on black money in the domestic sector under The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act). More interestingly, the Black Money SIT has claimed that it does not have a copy of the study repo