Web India: Goa: Wednesday,
November 02, 2016.
'RTI on
Wheels', an extensive 10-day Right to Information (RTI) awareness drive with a
multimedia vehicle, accompanied by RTI experts from Gujarat and Goa, will be
held acrossGoa from November 5-15.
RTI on
Wheels' is a joint initiative of Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP), the Goa
Information Commission and the Goa RTI Forum (GRF).
State Chief
Information Commissioner (SCIC) Prashant Tendulkar said that the primary
objective of the campaign is to empower citizens by making them aware of the
appropriate usage of the powerful Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 for a
stronger and healthier democracy.
The campaign
will include outreach programmes on the public places like bus stands, markets,
fairs etc, he informed. Various publications on RTI which will help citizens
understand the applicability of the Act will also be made available to public,
he said.
Seminars,
workshops and brief RTI orientations will be held for all categories of
audience including villagers, women's groups, school/college students, teachers
and workers' unions among othersduring the 10-day drive in Goa, he informed.
Mr Tendulkar
has appealed to government machinery specially the PIOs, Appellate Authorities
etc to take advantage of the national-level RTI experts coming to their localities.
Executive
secretary of MAGP, Ms Pankti Jog, said that they held similar campaigns in
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jammu & Kashmir and the response
had been overwhelming.
The focus of
the campaign is to make citizens understand how RTI can be used as a tool to
empower people and mobilise stakeholders for individual problem solving,
influencing policiesand for also advocacy purpose, Ms Jog added.
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