Duvvuri Subbarao, the governor of Reserve Bank of India, on Tuesday discussed the importance of freedom of information and the use of historical references to improve future policies, at the opening of the central bank's new archives museum.

"There is a growing concern that the mere ability to store larger and larger volumes of information is itself triggering storage of larger volumes of information without any consideration of its potential value," Subbarao said. He said the theme of the