TAMIL NADU RIGHT TO INFORMATION CAMPAIGN
Contact Address : No.54, LDG Road, Little Mount, Saidapet, Chennai – 600 015, Ph:22353503, 22355905, email: humanrightsadvocacyandresearch@gmail.com, hrf@md3.vsnl.net.in
RTI Workshop on Implementing the Right to Information Act for Women Activists
(Including drafting and filing RTI Applications and complaints)
13th August 2014 at Chennai
Tamil Nadu Right to Information Campaign, Human Rights Advocacy and Research Foundation (HRF), Legal Aid to Women Trust (LAW TRUST), Social Need Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA), Society for Integrated Rural Development (SIRD) organised Right to Information Workshop on implementing the Right to Information Act (including drafting and filing RTI applications, complaints and appeals).
Main Objective of the Workshop
- Important Provisions of the Right to Information Act 2005
- How to use the Right to Information Act
- Powers and Functions of the Information Commission
- Some key issues and challenges of the RTI Act
- Strengthening RTI by campaigning for the adoption of Right of Citizens for Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redressal of their Grievances Bill 2011 and The Whistle Blower’s Protection Bill
- How to access information under RTI swiftly and make the Tamil Nadu Right to Information Commission work efficiently