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Right to Information week – Celebrations @ 2016 by TNIC

Oct

6

2016

Today TNIC celebrated RTI week by conducting a workshop on RTI. PIOs and RTI Activists, NGOs, Media persons were equally invited. We were invited to present on the role of “Information seekers”. Note: Awaiting for the snaps taken yesterday from Information Commission. Should receive in couple of days and update here. New Coverage: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/CIC-suggests-help-desks-to-cut-number-of-RTI-petitions/articleshow/54726219.cms Our presentation – Digitization ...

Online RTI Generator in Multiple Languages

Jun

6

2015

Our RTI Generator is now ready with Tamil and Hindi support after months of work. This will help people use the tool in a language that makes them comfortable. Link: http://grayfaceofindia.in/online-rti-generator/ This release of the RTI Generator got featured in Times of India on Apr 14, 2015. Big applause to the team for their hard work ...

Bribing Traffic Inspector and our Video recordings 1

Jun

5

2015

We parked our Tata Magic vehicle near Kandasamy Temple, Broadway. The vehicle belongs to the NGO Chennai Social Service. We were doing some purchases for a Sapling plantation event at Uthandi, ECR the next day. When we returned back to the vehicle, we found that the vehicle is wheel locked. Constable was standing there and asked us driving license and insurance. We showed ...

RTI Workshop – 2

May

29

2015

We conducted our second RTI workshop on 24/05/2015. The workshop went awesome with 10 participants: Akshyaa, Sowmya, Aarya, Ganesh, Gowtham Ravi, Arvind, Hitesh, Shiva, Balachander and Kanchan. The agenda of the session is as follows: Introduction about RTI Some common civic, social issues that we face everyday. How we can combat those issues with RTI. Scams revealed through ...

2015 – Q1 Report 1

Apr

4

2015

RTI to followup on our previous traffic complaints To follow up on our complaints given on Traffic violators, we filed a RTI last year, enquiring on the status of the complaints. We got a response from saidapet and guindy Inspectors that Action has been taken on our complaints and reports sent to their higher authority. It ...

Hearing in TNSIC – Rough to applicants and the RTI Act and lenient to PIOs

Jan

9

2015

RTI follow up on Adyar, Cooum River restoration project: We filed a Second appeal against against Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on July 16, 2014. Background Information On February 5, 2013, S. Alexraj filed a complaint to prevent untreated sewage dumped into rivers through unlawful outlets. However, we noticed no action was taken. On July 22, ...

Blank paper as RTI Response – First time in the history of RTI by J1 Saidapet police station

Nov

25

2014

We filed a RTI with DGP Office to get the report submitted by J1 saidapet police station on the IOB Issue, briefed in the other post. The RTI was forwarded to Commissioner office and then to J1 police station. The response given by Tr.D.Vijaya Ramalu, Inspector of Police, J1 saidapet police station was totally unbelievable. ...

Traffic Violation Portal – Vision Zero for India

Jul

16

2014

To take forward our previous attempts at fixing Traffic violations, we came up with a comprehensive IT solution, a web portal to track Traffic Violations and crowdsource the process of taking violation videos and analyzing them. The portal is not just about this, but something much more significant. Maybe this portal will pave a way to realize one ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers Part 6

Jul

14

2014

Its been more than 6 months since we filed complaints to 10 departments on the sad state of Adyar and Cooum Rivers. We didn’t hear from even one of the department regarding our Complaint, which is expected. So we filed our second set of RTIs, to enquire into the status of our complaints. Some of ...

Atrocity by Indian Overseas Bank and their failed Grievance Redressal System 6

May

21

2014

Exams are always tough, even the Payment of Exam Fee is Its August 24, 2013. I visited Indian Overseas Bank, Saidapet to deposit an Exam Fee towards University of Madras. I was told to stand in alternative queues, as if they (Bank employees) themselves are not sure, which counter is to pay the Exam Fee. After ...