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On this page are weblinks to constitutional provisions, laws, draft laws and regulations which are relevant to the right to information.

Official Secret Act, 1923: Official_Secret_Act1923.pdf

Constitution of India, Article 19(1) coiason29july08.pdf

Public Records Act (official source)

The Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, ccp1973.pdf


Inclusion in the list on this page does not reflect any assessment that the cited ...

Enactment of RTI ACT 2005 became the first recorded instance of participatory Law Making in India. In 1996 National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) prepared the first ever civil society draft of the right to information (RTI). NAC (National Advisory Council) was setup in 2004 as an interface between civil society and the government.



Within 3 months of the 2004 elections, the NCPRI submitted its recommendations ...

With the coming into force in toto of the Right to Information Act, 2005 on 12th October, 2005, the Department of Posts has the responsibility to implement the Act after a decision taken by the Prime Minister of India that the Department of Posts should provide its services to the whole of Central Government as a collection point for request for information under the Act by designating its CAPIOs as CAPIOs for the entire Central Government.

2. The Department has already designated ...

We recently introduced RTI INDIA facebook connect and created Facebook application. Today RTI INDIA application has been approved in the Directory listing of Facebook application. The application is listed here:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/applica...25783517432980

We thank you all who had used Facebook ...

We have introduced Tweetboard - micro-forum cum chat for RTI INDIA website. It pulls Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving RTI INDIA visitors full perspective of what's being discussed.

Tweetboard is also a powerful viral tool, a link back to the corresponding conversation is appended to your tweet, creating ...

In a major shift of displaying the number of users at the website, we have stopped showing the total number of users, instead we have started showing Actual number of verified members only.

For the statistics sake we might have 170000 members who have registered but only 123000 members have actually verified their account.

The idea is to show only the verified members.

Original Post here!

Let me bring togather all the channels we are available in the net and the upcoming channel access.

• Main Website: http://www.rtiindia.org
• Right to Information Information Portal: http://www.rtiindia.info
• Facebook: Become Fan of RTI INDIA at Facebook
• Twitter: Follow us at Twitter
• Orkut: Become our friend at Orkut
• Tumblr: Follow us here at Tumblr
• YouTube: Visit our RTI INDIA Video Channel
• Posterous: Email Us the Right to Information Stories and we publish them directly
• RSS:

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Why is verification important?

• Let people know it's really you. Your profile badge will be upgraded to Verified so that others know that your comments are truly from you.
• No impersonators! Verifying your email prevents others from using your email address when posting on sites using Disqus Comments.
• Your comments won't get stuck. With a verified profile, your comments will be less likely to get stuck in moderation or in the spam filter.

I receive many useful email forwards from Activists and others which naturally I cannot post it at the website due to many reasons primarily being formatting and filtering of the content.

However, I have found an easy way out for all those emails carrying information regarding RTI.

Please visit our email community blog here:
http://rtiindia.posterous.com/

The methodology is simple:

1. You simply forward any email content carrying information ...

What better time to celebrate our 10000 strong member community than on the month of September when we started RTI India Portal.

Today on 4th September 2008, RTI India has crossed 10000 registered members. I am thankful to all those who had joined, participated, asked and took the lead in making sure that Right to Information means a success.

Thank You!