The present volume brings out together selected papers presented at the seminar. The sixteen papers included in this volume have been grouped under four parts dealing respectively with the concept and dimensions of transparency, disclosure, governance and development; the role of technology in transparency and disclosure; transparency, disclosure and social justice; and transparency, disclosure and human rights. It will forward different views and positions to promote transparency and disclosure in governance and also to understand how it affects the relationship between the state and the people, how it helps in keeping alive the basic tenets of our Constitution and how does the lack of transparency and disclosure lead to weakening of the very foundations of our polity. This book will helps in spreading better awareness and concern for transparency and disclosure in governance at various levels and contribute to practical action in this direction. This book would be useful as handbook for the Government Administrators and the researchers.