RTI is a powerful tool. Infocracy India will use the power of law and community media to use RTI to build more transparent system. 
 
Infocracy India, supported by Legally India and Lawctopus

RTI IDEAS: Do you have an idea to file RTI applications for some particular cause? Tell Infocracy India about it and they will feature them on LegallyIndia and Lawctopus. You and the Infocracy India group can then create a movement around it.

RTI EXPERIENCES: Have you attended an RTI workshop? Tell Infocracy India about it. Did you file an RTI? Tell Infocracy India about the experience; what was it about, what did the authorities say and what result did your application yield.

RTI APPLICATIONS: Drafting an action-oriented, powerful and rigorous RTI application is a craft which can be learnt. They will be putting some good RTI applications for free upload. The top-notch RTI applications which are filed by the Infocracy India’ Community will also be in the public domain and can be referred by anyone.

RTI RESULTS: They will be sharing the information get via your RTI applications with readers on LegallyIndia and Lawctopus. If an objection by the information officer is raised, they will be discussing whether it is a valid objection or if your should raise an appeal.

RTI IMPACT: Did the RTI application create an impact? What and how powerful was it? What do the people feel about the change? This is the community media part of the project.

The Government has recently constituted a Special Task Force to ensure effective implementation of the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) and to bring in more transparency and accountability in governance.  The task force is mandated to seek ways for effective implementation of Section 4 of the RTI Act.   

In this regard, Infocracy India, an initiative to further democracy by access to ‘free, open and abundant’ information conducted a survey to check if law schools are adhering to the RTI Act and concluded that most of the law colleges are not complying with the law.   

Section 4 of the RTI Act stipulates that every public authority shall catalogue, index & facilitate access to its records and ensure that online access to such information is facilitated (subject to availability of resources). 

Also, every public authority is duty bound to proactively disclose the information provided under the heads mentioned under Section 4 (1)(b). This had to be published within 120 days of the date of enactment of this Act. 

Even our best law universities have a poor record on this. The Section 4 came into force on June 15, 2005 and the information should have been disclosed within 120 days, by October 15, 2005. It seems that we are six years late.