{"id":9098,"date":"2013-04-18T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/welcome-initiative-of-rti-online-more\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:54:20","slug":"welcome-initiative-of-rti-online-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/welcome-initiative-of-rti-online-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome initiative of RTI-online ; More needs to be done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Subhash-Chandra-Agrawal2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"184\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Subhash-Chandra-Agrawal2.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b><i>SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL<\/i><\/b><br \/><b>Guinness Record Holder &amp; RTI Activist<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Department of Personnel &amp; Training (DoPT) deserves all appreciation for its launching RTI-online for e-filing RTI petitions. However this service will have practical limitation because of public-authorities being in very large numbers apart from government-departments and ministries. System should be formulated whereby there may be sub-options for undertakings after main options of departments and ministries respectively controlling these undertakings.<\/p>\n<p>But more practical approach is to extend system of designated post-offices to receive post-free RTI petitions to all post-offices in the country. Every post-office however small it may be, is attached to a big post-office where all postal-articles for registered and Speed Post mail are forwarded by the small post-offices. RTI-petitions received at small post-offices can also be forwarded to big post-offices in the same bag.<\/p>\n<p>DoPT should also take up matter of issuing RTI-stamps or numbered RTI-coupons as the simplest mode of paying RTI fees and copying charges. It will not only save RTI-petitioners of cumbersome use of postal-orders for the payment mode, but also save largely on handling-cost of postal orders which was rupees 22.71 as estimated for the year 2005-06.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWALGuinness Record Holder &amp; RTI Activist Department of Personnel &amp; Training (DoPT) deserves all appreciation for its launching RTI-online for e-filing RTI petitions. However this service will have practical limitation because of public-authorities being in very large numbers apart from government-departments and ministries. System should be formulated whereby there may be sub-options for undertakings after main options of departments and ministries respectively controlling these undertakings. But more practical approach is to extend system of designated post-offices to receive post-free RTI petitions to all post-offices in the country. Every post-office however small it may be, is attached to a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[1879,67],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-update","tag-update","tag-views","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38839,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions\/38839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}