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AID Delhi Right To Information cell started

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Objective

The objective of the group is to:

Create awareness among people about the usage of RTI.
Use RTI to find the information about working of the government departments to make them more accountable.
Strive to reduce corruption from government departments.
Take up critical issues from the community where we work and make them aware of this act by enabling them to file RTIs.

Strategy and Focus

We started AID Delhi RTI cell in February. We have formed a team called Youth Task Force. This will bring in members from AID, Josh, and other colleges, and organizations, who are working on various RTI issues.

The primary focus of our group is to inspect the work and/or to seek information for the documents of Public Works Department (PWD) of Delhi Government and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) schools in Delhi. However, if a volunteer feels that there are other relevant areas where a significant impact can be made, we will take up those issues as well. We also plan to approach the people of the community where we work to discuss with them and create awareness among them by performing street plays, playing RTI songs, and helping them file RTI applications on critical issues.

We are currently talking with the students of IIT (NSS), DU, LSR, and various other colleges of Delhi for cooperating with us. We are also trying to take help of civil engineers from IIT for the inspection of roads in Delhi. We also plan to conduct a workshop by Arvind Khejriwal for the volunteers of IIT Delhi (NSS). This will be a very important workshop because it will not only tell us about the importance of RTI, but will also teach us on how to file RTIs on different issues.

The 46 applications filed so far cover works on all roads including Outer Ring Road, Ring Road, NH-10, NH-24, and other PWD roads in the capital. We have filed 46 such applications seeking information and inspection regarding road works worth Rs 420 crore. We took a retired MCD civil engineer with us to check the strengthening work. Under pressure of 46 RTI applications, PWD for the first time told us that they would be allowed to pick up samples simultaneously with the inspecting authority. The endeavors of IIT-Delhi students were covered by Times of India on the front page on April 22, 2007.

Check out RTI cartoons :

http://gallery.aidindia.org/gallery2/v/rticartoons/

Youth Task force website :

http://www.togetherwearebetter.blogspot.com/

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