Mahithi Hakku Jagruthi Vedike: Address and tel no required

[subramany4]

Hello I am Subramany, a senior citizen of India.I would like to file an RTI complaint.

Please furnish the address and telephone number of Mahithi Hakku Jagruthi Vedike near Malleswaram.If there is no center available in Malleswaram, please provide exact (address with phone number) of Mahithi Hakku Jagruthi Vedike in Bangalore.

Regards
Subramany

[DineshK]

Welcome to RTI forum. You should mention the designation of the officer you are looking for instead of name. May be we will be able to help you then.

[karira]

Subramany,

mahitihakku@gmail.com

[DineshK]

Who is Mahithi Hakku Jagruthi Vedike ? Is it a name of person or an agency ?

[sidmis]

Who is Mahithi Hakku Jagruthi Vedike ? Is it a name of person or an agency ?

They are an active RTI Group from Bangalore, Karnataka.

To know more about this group you may try Google Search and you will find a lot of info.

[ganpat1956]

The details available in the first post of the thread: For the attention of Bangalore members and also post No.6 in the thread: B'lore gets India's 1st 'RTI bank' may also be useful to you.

[sidmis]

Schoolkids could learn about RTI
as reported by R Krishnakumar | TNN | Times of India e-paper

Bangalore: Now on, the questions will come with more bite. Shaped and sharpened, right in the school classroom. Furthering the efforts to ensure greater awareness about the Right To Information, the Department of State Education Research and Training (DSERT) is set to incorporate RTI in the state’s school syllabus.

The plan is to include RTI as chapters in textbooks of classes 6 and 9.
The move assumes importance considering that the RTI Act, 2005 recommends educational programmes by governments to enhance awareness and use of RTI. According to Section 26 of the Act, the appropriate government may “develop and organize educational programmes to advance the understanding of the public, in particular of disadvantaged communities as to how to exercise the rights contemplated under this Act.’’

M N Baig, director, DSERT, told TOI the addition could be made in the 2009-10 academic year. “We are rewriting the syllabus and tendering process for textbooks this year has commenced. RTI will be incorporated into textbooks but not this year,’’ he said.

KIC welcomes move: The Karnataka Information Commission said the move was in tune with the government’s entrusted responsibility to create awareness on RTI. A KIC official said the commission had written to the state education department about a year ago to initiate measures to bring RTI within the school education ambit. “A few other states have been proactively following up on the recommendations on their own as well,’’ he said. Maharashtra was the first state to include RTI in school textbooks.

C N Kumar, an RTI activist, has, for the past year, been seeking details of programmes taken up by the government to incorporate RTI in school textbooks. “The effect will be on different levels. Once RTI is in textbooks, children will start looking at the right to know as a fundamental right, like the right to vote,’’ Kumar said.

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