The Legal System Reforms Project

12/07/2017

As a first step, the women filed an RTI to find out how many water tankers were allotted to their colony. The RTI response revealed that Savda Ghevra was allotted 88 tankers per day, while in reality, only 22 arrived and that too not daily. With this information at hand, they filed another RTI to find where the missing tankers were going. The authorities now had to act. Each tanker was fitted with a GPS tracker so that they do not go ‘missing’. They women started to follow up every tanker individually. Within six months the entire water tanker supply got streamlined with fixed timings for the tanker arrivals.

From bringing water to their community to saving a girl from being r***d.

11/07/2017

The RTI Act of 2005 made the government more accountable. But a new set of proposed rules may weaken the law and make it difficult and risky for people to access information

01/06/2017

Our report got published in RTI Foundation of India website.

A Project report analyses the RTI compliance across High Courts of India

22/05/2017

Our RTI Report is covered by Bar and Bench. We would like to know your comments too.

According to a study by final-year post-graduate students of Azim Premji University, Punjab & Haryana High Court is the most RTI compliant high court.

22/05/2017

We have been reported on Live Law. Do not forget to see the report here https://thelsr.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/the-implementation-of-rti-act-2005-in-nine-high-courts-final-report/

A study conducted by the Legal System Reforms Project, Azim Premji University, Bangalore has revealed that most High Courts notify RTI rules which frustrate the purpose of the RTI Act. The report titled, “The Implementation of the Right to Information Act, 2005 in Nine High Courts of India – A Compa...

20/05/2017

We have published the final report of the RTI and the High Courts project here. The project ran from December 2016 to April 2017. During the project, we have sent over 100 RTI applications to around 12 High Courts, Compiled over 1000 pages of RTI responses, compared the RTI rules of 16 High Courts, Compared the sou-moto declarations of the nine high courts and looked at over 60 judgments on RTI which have been a part of our sample. [ 419 more words ]

https://thelsr.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/the-implementation-of-rti-act-2005-in-nine-high-courts-final-report/

We have published the final report of the RTI and the High Courts project here. The project ran from December 2016 to April 2017. During the project, we have sent over 100 RTI applications to aroun…

18/05/2017

Section 28 of the RTI act, allows the Chief Justices of the High court to draft RTI rules regulating the applicability and fees of RTI for their respective High Courts. One of the components of our project has been the comparative analyses of the RTI rules of various High courts. As we have stated before, the RTI rules of various High Courts are in some cases, patently… [ 244 more words ]

https://thelsr.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/model-high-court-right-to-information-rules/

Section 28 of the RTI act, allows the Chief Justices of the High court to draft RTI rules regulating the applicability and fees of RTI for their respective High Courts. One of the components of our…

16/05/2017

Filing an RTI is not as easy as it seems. Here is the video of one of our group member explaining the hardships she has faced while filing the RTI. Annmol Chacko
Project

16/05/2017

This video will take you through step by step procedure for filing e-rti...

10/05/2017

Greetings from the field. Survey LSRP.

04/05/2017

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed Ministry of Law and Justice to disclose when Memorandum of Procedure will be finalised.