Get all the details About RTI and get inspired by some Real time examples where RTI has Revolutionized things in India
In this post u will know what RTI is about and all can file an rti application form and the response of intervention for an given rti application form on which we file an rti form.we can also file an online form for rti.Rti is an important tool it brings out Freedom of information among citizens.As we say India is an Democratic Nation RTI is an example for such thing it gives the right to file an application aganist all wrong things done by Government and in the case we feel where we feel we didnt get right justice.Also we will show u some real time examples where RTI has worked immensly.
RTI application form:
The Right to Information has not been simply a tool to combat corruption. For me, it proved to be life changing. Right to Information Act 2005 mandates timely response to citizen requests for government information. It is an initiative taken by Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions to provide a– RTI Portal Gateway to the citizens for quick search of information on the details of first Appellate Authorities,PIOs etc. amongst others, besides access to RTI related information / disclosures published on the web by various Public Authorities under the government of India as well as the State Governments.
here the Link if u will feel anything wrong just file an Rti online form:
https://rtionline.gov.in/request/request.php
Response to Intervention:
The time limit for getting a response to your RTI inquiry, from the concerned Public Information Officer (PIO) is generally 30 days, from the date your application is submitted. In a case where the application is submitted to the Assistant PIO, five additional days are allowed. This is to provide for the required time where, the APIO would send the application to the PIO. Taking all factors into account, one should expect a response with a time frame of approximately 40 days at the most.
Here are Some Real time Examples where RTI has Changed things for People:
Ordinary people's power:
After this first taste of the power of Information, I have filed more than 200 RTI applications till date encompassing multiple public issues and including a few personal as well. When I used to live in Varanasi, inflated electricity bills were a huge problem for the entire locality. Common people used to receive electricity bills amounting to Rs.10 lakhs, 20 lakhs, and in one shocking case, 200 crores as well. This happened because the departmental staff did not come to check electricity meters as per their duty. I met several higher officials of the department numerous times with a request to send their staff to our locality but they paid no heed to my pleas. I ultimately filed an RTI application seeking detailed records of meter checking by the concerned electricity department and things changed overnight. The next day concerned S.D.O came and promised to send the staff regularly for meter-checking and solve all the other related grievances of the public then and there.
1.8 Crore Toll-Booth Scam Exposed by Prashanth Burge:
Prashant Burge, an RTI activist, suspected that excess toll was being charged on NH4. He then filed an RTI application, which proved him right, exposing a scam of Rs. 1.8 crores.
He filed an application under Right to Information Act (RTI) in 2013, demanding an investigation into the entire toll structure. National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) responded to his query and initiated a high level probe.
The results were shocking, but not to Burge, as he had already suspected the flaw.
Read here to See the Complete Story:1.8 Crore Scam By A Toll-Booth Exposed by RTI Activist Prashant Burge
RTI application form:
The Right to Information has not been simply a tool to combat corruption. For me, it proved to be life changing. Right to Information Act 2005 mandates timely response to citizen requests for government information. It is an initiative taken by Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions to provide a– RTI Portal Gateway to the citizens for quick search of information on the details of first Appellate Authorities,PIOs etc. amongst others, besides access to RTI related information / disclosures published on the web by various Public Authorities under the government of India as well as the State Governments.
here the Link if u will feel anything wrong just file an Rti online form:
https://rtionline.gov.in/request/request.php
Response to Intervention:
The time limit for getting a response to your RTI inquiry, from the concerned Public Information Officer (PIO) is generally 30 days, from the date your application is submitted. In a case where the application is submitted to the Assistant PIO, five additional days are allowed. This is to provide for the required time where, the APIO would send the application to the PIO. Taking all factors into account, one should expect a response with a time frame of approximately 40 days at the most.
Here are Some Real time Examples where RTI has Changed things for People:
Ordinary people's power:
After this first taste of the power of Information, I have filed more than 200 RTI applications till date encompassing multiple public issues and including a few personal as well. When I used to live in Varanasi, inflated electricity bills were a huge problem for the entire locality. Common people used to receive electricity bills amounting to Rs.10 lakhs, 20 lakhs, and in one shocking case, 200 crores as well. This happened because the departmental staff did not come to check electricity meters as per their duty. I met several higher officials of the department numerous times with a request to send their staff to our locality but they paid no heed to my pleas. I ultimately filed an RTI application seeking detailed records of meter checking by the concerned electricity department and things changed overnight. The next day concerned S.D.O came and promised to send the staff regularly for meter-checking and solve all the other related grievances of the public then and there.
1.8 Crore Toll-Booth Scam Exposed by Prashanth Burge:
Prashant Burge, an RTI activist, suspected that excess toll was being charged on NH4. He then filed an RTI application, which proved him right, exposing a scam of Rs. 1.8 crores.
He filed an application under Right to Information Act (RTI) in 2013, demanding an investigation into the entire toll structure. National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) responded to his query and initiated a high level probe.
The results were shocking, but not to Burge, as he had already suspected the flaw.
Read here to See the Complete Story:1.8 Crore Scam By A Toll-Booth Exposed by RTI Activist Prashant Burge
RTI Changed My Life:
The Right to Information has not been simply a tool to combat corruption. For me, it proved to be life changing. It helped me face and solve a huge personal problem and helped me reach one step closer to my academic goals. After clearing my higher secondary examination I had started preparing for CLAT (Common Law Admission Test). As the date of form-submission came closer, some of my friends who were already pursuing legal studies conveyed to me, during a course of conversation, that I was ineligible to appear for any law entrance examination of the Country since I had passed my higher secondary examination from ‘National Institute of Open Schooling’ commonly known as N.I.O.S. This information was a complete shock to me. I felt as though all my dreams had been shattered. I had wanted to pursue legal studies from my early days of schooling. I had absolutely no idea how to acquire information that would help confirm the truth of what I had heard. I lived in a small village and didn’t have access to modes of seeking information. I had very limited knowledge of the internet.
I telephoned the Bar Council of India office, New Delhi, hoping that I would get the true and correct information that I needed so desperately, but the response I received was no relief to me at all. It confirmed the Information passed on to me by my friends. In anxiety, I kept telephoning the BCI office and in this way telephoned them more than 20 times with a hope that some other official may pick up the phone and say that I am eligible but it didn’t happen and I failed in my every attempt. Thereafter I contacted NUJS, Kolkata which was conducting CLAT that year and it too confirmed the Information that I am not eligible to sit in this examination. As a last effort, I started contacting Private Universities over phone but all of them disappointed me by confirming that the legal profession had closed its doors to me.
At this time when I had become entirely depressed and hopeless, I read a piece of Information in a Hindi daily about the immense power of this beautiful legislation called the Right To Information. I didn’t know how to write an RTI application and whom to send it to. But I knew I had to try. So, I picked up a plain white paper and drafted an application not in its prescribed format but in the ordinary form of a letter of grievance and sent it to the HRD Ministry, Government of India. A few days later, I received a reply that the subject matter of my Information pertains to the NIOS and the same has been transferred to it. Within a month, I received a detailed reply from NIOS with all relevant documents which opened the blocked door to my legal studies. The barriers I faced were created due to the false, inauthentic and misleading Information passed on to me by several entities. The Information I received through the RTI revealed that I was absolutely competent to sit any law entrance test. Unfortunately, I couldn’t appear for CLAT that year because it had become too late to submit the application. Today, I am successfully pursuing my fourth year of Law from a reputed private university situated in the capital city of Odisha. This happened because of the power of ‘Right to Information’. I sometimes think, that if I had been born in a Pre-RTI era, I wouldn’t have been able to fulfil my dream of pursuing legal studies.
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