RTI aggregation platform, Rapid Action Against Corruption in India (RAACI) has launched YourAdhikar, an online platform to file applications under Right to Information Act (2005). When we checked the website, we noticed that users have to sign up with their email address and password. After signing up, users can either file RTIs with correct address and PIOs information or view RTIs filed so far. Users can file RTI applications free of cost. In the back end, the company has a person who does the manual filing of the applications. Once the response is received, it is uploaded into their database and a scanned copy of the response is sent to the applicant. In addition to filing RTIs, the platform also has provision for users to file first and second appeal to higher authorities as well. The company plans to add status update on the filing soon. RTI response aggregation: Besides this, it also intends to aggregate the RTI responses, anonymise the data and make them available through RAACI's website for public access. The company said that the data will be anonymised to protect the identity of the people filing the application. When we checked, we also noticed that the website's privacy policy states that YourAdhikar reserves " the full rights to publish and share any such information obtained" through the RTIs filed. Speaking to Medianama, Raj Shekhar Singh, co-founder of RAACI said that they had initially tried to aggregate RTI responses by asking applicants to upload their responses to RAACI's website so that all others in…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...