RIGHT TO INFORMATION CAMPAIGN IN ANDHRA PRADESH
Organiser: United Forum for RTI Campaign – A.P.
Dates: 21st May to 26th May, 2007
Venues: Outside District offices including that of Collector’s, Mandal offices, Municipal offices all thoughout Andhra Pradesh.
Activities: Volunteers, including members of civil society organisations, will help common citizens understand the RTI Act, in drafting their applications under the Act and getting it submitted to the concerned Public Information Officer or Assistant PIO.
Objective: At the end of this first round of campaign we hope PIOs in all government offices all over A.P. will be nominated, they will be identified through a board outside their offices and they will set up a smooth mechanism to accept RTI applications with a fee of Rs. 10 in cash. People will become aware about using the Act and officials will become sensitive towards people so that applications under RTI will be readily entertained and they’ll disclose information suo moto as per the Act.
Contact Information: For any information about the campaign as well as for participating in the campaign please contact:
B. Ram Krishna Raju, 9866887299
N. Nagendra Babu, 9848029527
V. Venkateshwar Rao, 9849064309
Address: CMS, 1300 A, Road No. 66, Jubilee Hills Society, Hyderabad 500033
Fax: 040 23540493
e-mail: rticampaignap@gmail.com
Participating Organizations (65): Action Aid (Secunderabad), ADDS (Rangareddy Dist.), APMASS, ANKITA (Nalgonda), APDS, APDS (Kurnool), APPS (Ananthapur), APSMS (Visakhapatnam), APVVU, ARD (Nellore), ARTS, Asha Parivar, BREAD, CAMEL, CAPCO, CASA, Centre for Media Studies, CHATRI, COVA, Dalit Bahujan Front, DBSU (Nalgonda), DHWDS, FAPSCO, FFA, Forum for Better Visakhapatnam, Forum for Better Hyderabad, Forum for Better Kukatpally, FVPS (Nalgonda), GAMANA (E. Godavari Dist.), HCHW (Hyderabad), HRF, HRLN, Jana Chaitanya Vedika, Jana Vignana Vedika, Kadali Network, KERATAM, Lok Kalyan Trust, Loksatta, MMM Network (Ananthapur), NFF (Prakasam Dist.), Novok, ONVA (Warangal), PEARLS, Pragathi, Praja Alochana Vedika, PRIA, PSS (Warangal), PUCAAR, PWRF (Warangal), PWS (Hyderabad), Raksha, RISE, SACIR-AP, Sajjani, SANNIHITHA, Senior Citizens’ Forum, Shanthi Sangham (Guntur), SNIRD (Ongole), SPACE, STMKU (Prakasam), UFERWAS, United Forum for RTI (Mahaboobnagar), VOICE, WAASAN, Young India Project (Penugonda).