X-Nico

7 unusual facts about RTI


Centre for Public Policy Research

In 2009, the Digital RTI Mission was initiated by CPPR to make Kerala the first RTI digital state of India.

Common Service Centers

#G2C Communication - All G2C (Government to Consumer) Communication including Health, Education, Agriculture, Human Resource Development, Employment, Fundamental Rights, Disaster Warnings, RTI, etc.

Dinu Solanki

He came under media gaze after the RTI crusader Amit Jethwa was murdered; his nephew Shiva Solanki has been arrested as the prime suspect in the murder.

Harsha Raj Gatty

At Present he is a Research Fellow on RTI conducted by the The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) & leads vocational training to students & others on how to properly access and use the RTI Act.

Kamla Beniwal

In August, the father of murdered RTI activist Amit Jethwa filed a Public Interest Litigation in the High Court, which then served a show cause notice on the government for the delay in the appointment of Lokayukta.

R. A. Mehta

In August 2011, responding to a Public Interest Litigation filed by the father of the murdered RTI-activist Amit Jethwa, the High Court issued a show-cause notice to the government on the delay in appointment.

Shashidhar Mishra

Shashidhar Mishra (1975–2010) was an Indian RTI activist, who was shot dead by unknown assailants by bullets near his house in Phulwaria Village, located near Begusarai town of Bihar.


Actian

By this time, RTI had fierce competition in the database management system (DBMS) market, including Oracle Corporation (which had started with the similar name Relational Software Incorporated), Informix Corporation, and Sybase, but was one of the largest DBMS companies.

Dhvani Desai

" Chakravyuh " ( The Vicious Circle ), her another film about promoting awareness of India's Right to Information Act (RTI) was produced by the Films Division and released publicly on the occasion of the 8th Anniversary of the RTI Act by the Public Concern for Governance Trust ( PCGT), Indian Merchants' Chamber ( IMC ) Anti Corruption Cell and Bombay Chartered Accountants Society in Mumbai.

Gorkha Rashtriya Congress

In September 2010, GRC filed an RTI with the Sikkim government regarding the ownership of the territory under Darjeeling district.

India Against Corruption

In September 2013, Sarbajit Roy claimed to be the national convenor of IAC, which by now comprised mostly Right to Information (RTI) activists.

Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti

Formed by the RTI activist Akhil Gogoi in 2005, the organisation works on a diverse range of issues from Public Distribution System (PDF) thefts, non-implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA), land rights, governmental and corporate corruption, Right to Information Act (RTI) and construction of big dams in fragile seismic territories of north east India.

National Voters' Day

On the fourth National Voters Day, a disability activist Satendra Singh's RTI caught Election Commission of India off-guard when they were found violating Supreme Court orders to enfranchise voters with disability.

Pallathadka

Harikumar Pallathadka, (Harikumar P in short) is a prominent Indian RTI (Known as FOI in the west) and Social Activist and also the Manager of AUP School Pallathadka.

Resistance to interrogation

The most intense RTI was supposedly carried out by the Russian special purpose regiment (Spetsnaz) when the Soviet Union was still intact.

RTI International Metals

RTI recently announced plans to build a new premium-grade sponge plant contiguous to the Tronox plant in Hamilton, Mississippi.

Social audit

While the SRPs manage daily activities like scheduling the social audit, contacting district officials, ensuring follow up and enforcement of social audit findings, the DRPs manage the actual conduct of the social audit, for instance, filing RTI applications, and contacting the 'Mandal' level officials to organise logistics and public hearing.


see also