A recently-concluded 10-day padyatra of 300 villages in four districts around Jaipur highlighted the problems of land acquisition for SEZs, forced jatropha planting for bio-diesel, removal of restrictions on the sale of land owned by SC/ST groups, better implementation of the NREG and RTI Acts, and social security for workers in the unorganised sector. Schemes like the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) (in which Rajasthan leads the states in terms of employment generated) are being poorly implemented: workers are being denied the promised minimum wage of Rs 73 per day. There is opacity in a large number of government decisions. RTI applications are gathering dust in public offices: the 30-day time limit is routinely violated. Red tape is rife. Public information boards are missing from panchayat offices. Corruption has not been brought to an end. And this in a state that birthed the ideaof people's right to information.