Jagruti Yatra-to create awareness on RTI act among people

[brajeshmerta]

'Information is Power', especially in the context of rural India. Our development experience of more than 20 years in rural India has repeatedly demonstrated to us that people who are able to access information, process them effectively and use it to their own benefit are the ones who are more easily able to get out of poverty; the others are condemned to merely cope with poverty. The last few years have also shown us that Right to Information (RTI) Act and processes like Social Audit can be very effective and powerful tools in reducing corruption and forcing good governance practices on public service delivery institutions.

With this in mind, a group of people from SVYM (Swami vivekananda Youth Movement ,An NGO from Mysore HD kote taluk)(led by Dr.R.Balasubramaniam) is on a padayaathre (walk) from Saragur (in H.D.Kote Taluk) to Bangalore - a distance of about 350 km, walking through more than 100 villages, over 30 days. They will interact with atleast 200,000 people along the way and talk about the RTI Act, Social Audit and schemes like NREGA. The walk also aims to create an environment of positivity wherein people will get to believe in the power and goodness of communities and take on the responsibility of cleansing the system instead of merely complaining against it.

The walk started on the 4th of September, 2008 and will end on the 2nd of October, 2008 (on Gandhi Jayanthi day), traversing through Beerwal, Yediyala, Begur, Gundlupet, Tarakanambi, Chamarajanagar, Yelandur, Kollegal, Malavalli and Kanakapura.
For more information visit vivekamysore.blogspot.com
Thanks
Dr. Brajesh Raj merta
Swami vivekananda Youth Movement

[karira]

Dr Brajesh,

Members and Guests of this forum have been following the padyatra organised by your Movement.
Please see:

Padayatra to Popularise RTI