[2] After a series of public hearings exposed systemic corruption across Rajasthan, and the reneging of the promise of the Right to Information given by the then Chief Minister of Rajasthan, the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan began a historic forty-day-long dharna (sit in protest) to demand the Right to Information.

[5] As the protest gained momentum, people began to visit Beawar from across the country to see the extraordinary happenings that were taking place in this small city in Rajasthan.

Senior journalists who visited included Nikhil Chakravartty, Kuldip Nayar, and Prabhash Joshi.

A museum with archival material to remember the city that gave birth to the RTI movement is being planned at Bewar.

[8] One of the innovations of the MKSS was the method of Jan Sunwaiis or Public Hearings where detailed documents derived from official expenditure records were read aloud to the people of the villages who gathered.

[9] Before the existence of the RTI Act, it was very difficult to access official records and not many Jan Sunwaiis could be organised.