Nagaland Post: Monday, June 24, 2013.
YouthNet has been instrumental in introducing the
Right to Information (RTI) in Nagaland. The RTI Campaign has been taken up with
the objective to empower young people to use it as a tool to check corruption
and bring about transparency and accountability in the system.
Since August 2006, a series of workshops and
awareness campaigns on RTI have been conducted by YouthNet all over the State
in partnership with various NGOs, students unions, churches, colleges, youth
groups and government departments, reaching out to more than ten thousand
youths. In 2008, YouthNet conducted RTI Public Hearing/Social Auditing in Suruhuto,
Pfutsuro, Pughoboto and Chizami, focusing on four areas namely; schools, health
centres, electricity and road. This was followed by public hearing in Kohima in
2011 which was facilitated by Arvind Kejriwal. In 2012, in partnership with
Administrative Training Institute (ATI) Kohima, the “Youth for transparency and
good governance”, campaign was initiated which was headed by Kuovi Belho, (Masters
in Social Work) and assisted by 20
students from colleges in Kohima called the YouthNet
Young Ambassadors. RTI division is headed by Joshua Sheqi (Lawyer) and Lydia
Yeptho (Lawyer).
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