RTI AWARENESS GENERATION IS NECESSARY FOR RTI ACTIVISTS AND VOLUNTEERS AND ALSO FOR THE CPIOs AND SPIOs., AAs AND STAFF OF THE CONCERNED OFFICES.

RTI activists and volunteers must do needful celebrations related to innovative awareness generation programme in the interest of new era entrants and organisation of workshop and training required for the awareness drive of the RTI and the RTS act adjudication. At the same time the government is too responsible to conduct one day training programmes for at least 25 RTI nodal officers of the public authorities in each programme regarding the implementation of DOP&T guidelines, time to time issued by the government of India and the state government on suo motu disclosure, particularly on implementation of templates for the disclosure at various levels. These training programmes will be conducted at the district headquarters by the DRPs under the overall supervision of the ATIs. Each course will be provided to ATIs based on a detailed proposal. The training programme must also include a segment on record management. State ATIs will be supported for undertraining training of SPIOs /CPIOs and AAs in a cascade model. ATIs may set up helpline for answering queries of the general public regarding RTI Act in the respective regional language and the ATIs will be provided funds for getting guidebooks published in the regional language. The guidelines on the various components of the plan scheme for which financial support would be provided by Department of the DOP&T to the ATIs and State information commissions, as per the proposals for the innovative awareness generation activities. Keeping in view the above guidelines on the captioned subject of awareness generation for RTI state information commissions are responsible to ask for the proposed programmes made by the Government and the department of the DOP&T and ensure trained PIOs for the welfare of people of area and circle demanding accuracy and correctness in the schedule of Right to information and obligation of the public authorities.