Speak up, speak out
As the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan completes over 20 years, a story of the songs and street plays created by the people’s movement to demand accountable governance, confront administrations and inspire communities
NRIs too have the right to information
An Indian scientist based in the US petitioned the courts and got the Supreme Court to guarantee the right to information to all persons of Indian origin, including NRIs
Information behind bars
A citizen recounts her long struggle to get information out of jail authorities
RTI is development you can see
The villagers of Boru in Gujarat, under the stewardship of Gulambhai, decided they would no longer tolerate the lack of healthcare facilities in their village. Using the right to information, they fired off a series of questions to the PIO. And things began to change
'Ooof, woh RTI-walleh aa gaye'
Students at the Prabhat Khabar Institute for Media Studies in Ranchi use the right to information in various innovative and exploratory exercises. They have filed a slew of applicationsâfrom probing administrative excesses to simply finding out why someone has not got a telephone connection for six months
One year after: State report card on RTI
One year after the enforcement of the landmark Right to Information Act, problems of implementation and resource allocation persist. But the main problem in all but a handful of states appears to be the lukewarm response of a largely unaware citizenry
Something to hide
Public interest groups have made it clear that they intend to defeat the government's proposal to exempt file notings from the ambit of the Right to Information Act
Right to Information: Are you being served?
The Pune Municipal Corporation's public information office receives at least 10 Right to Information applications a day. Who are the citizens contributing to this flurry of activity? Are these applications indicative of the success of the recent legislation and the RTI movement?
'If 40% of Indians are asking for 1% of the GDP, it's no big deal'
Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy is founder-member of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatana and a member of the National Advisory Council. She is an outspoken champion of an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act 2002 and the much-talked-about Employment Guarantee Act
Triveni Devi and 109 other women vanquish corrupt ration shop dealers
A chronicle of the battle of destitute women, supported by the NGO Parivartan, to expose a Rs 300 crore Public Distribution System scam in the capital and secure their entitlements using the Right to Information Act