About the Campaign

On August 1st 2019, the National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information launched a year long “Use RTI, Demand Accountability” campaign. This campaign was initiated as a response to the recent amendments to the Right to Information Act by the Central Government which weakens one of the most popular and widely used legislations in India. The campaign was initiated to counter the misleading rhetoric that was gaining popularity that all information is being proactively disclosed and there is a reduced need for the RTI itself and to continue to put pressure on the government by demanding accountability. This campaign was conceived with the intention of bringing individuals and organizations together in solidarity and support and to strengthen the RTI network across the country.

Through this campaign, interested citizens, RTI users, various people’s movements, organizations and individuals working on a wide range of issues have been filing RTI applications for the past few months and will continue to file RTI applications on pressing issues of public interest on the 1st of every month. 

RTI applications are being filed on several critical issues such as Adivasi Rights, Public Health, Transparency and Accountability, Food and Nutrition, Pensions and Social Security, Employment, Dalit Rights, Aadhaar, Women’s’ Rights, Urban Housing, Banking, Mining and Environmental Governance, Agriculture, Land Rights, Tribal and Forest Rights, the Economy, Education, Media, Democratic rights to name a few. Till date over 375 RTI applications have been filed as part of the campaign.

We encourage you to participate in this campaign and hope that by coming together in support and solidarity we can collectively protect the RTI movement and to send out a clear public message that the RTI campaign will not be suppressed by anti-transparency tactics.

We appeal to all of you and request your participation by filing RTI applications in your respective states on issues of public importance that you are working on or are interested in and to share those details with us on rtilagao@gmail.com or through the form on the website where all the RTI applications filed are being uploaded, tracked and collated.