SICs AND ATIs ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT DETAILED PROPOSALS FOR SEEKING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, BASED ON DETAILED ESTIMATED COST AND REQUIRED FOR AWARENESS GENERATION ACTIVITIES.

In order to attend to RTI requests promptly, improved record management/suo motu disclosures is necessary to index the stored records properly. Similarly, sup motu disclosure would help in disseminating as much information as possible to the public which would obviate the need to seek information through RTI and the RTS act adjudication. Government of India has issued guidelines on suo motu disclosure under section 4 of RTI Act, 2005 to be followed by the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India. It would be desirable that such guidelines are adopted by the State Governments as well DoP&T would grant funds under this scheme as follows:--- (1) If any state government is willing to implement these gyi in their respective Public authorities, ATIs can do the necessary hand holding of the PAs. proposals are invited from the ATIs in this regards and financial assistance required for such hand holding shall be provided to the ATIs based on their proposals. (2) ATIs can also conduct audit of the suo motu disclosure of public authorities in their respective states either themselves or through an NGO /agency.Funds would be granted to ATIs to conduct such audit based on their proposals. As for sanctions and release of financial assistance is concerned, SICs and ATIs are required to submit detailed proposals for seeking financial assistance, under this scheme and the proposal must include detailed cost estimates for various activities and the timelines for the physical achievements

. Further the Scheme monitoring Committee (SMC) will review the proposals and sanction assistance. Funds will be released only if UCs for finds provided to the SIC (For awareness generation activities) or the ATI (For training/ Awareness generation/capacity building), subject to receipt of financial and physical progress/achievement.