Kabir | Right to Information | Past and ongoing Activities

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About Kabir - Past and ongoing Campaigns

Over the years, Kabir has organized many campaigns to promote the use of the Right To Information Act. Our campaigns have been directed towards India's masses, with the aim of empowering every citizen to help make our government more transparent and accountable. These are some of the campaigns we have organized so far:

Drive Against Bribe with RTI - was a very widely publicized campaign in the media. Organized in collaboration with NDTV, it aimed to promote the use of the RTI Act amongst the masses by encouraging them to use it as a substitute to giving bribe to get their work done in government offices. The campaign involved the training of around 1500 volunteers to work in assistance camps set up between the 1st and the 15th of July, 2006, throughout the country. Around 45,000 applicants were assisted, and around 21,000 RTI applications were filed.
The Action Research Villages Campaign (termed Mere Gaon Ka Sawaal in Hindi) - Jointly launched in December 2006 with out partners Poorest Area Civil Society Project (PACS) and ABSS from Dehat, the campaign was focused on brining RTI to five villages in various districts of Uttar Pradesh. The villagers were trained and encouraged to file a minimum of 300 RTI applications on various issues from each village; the impacts of the year long campaign were tremendous resulting in a district wide dispersal of RTI awareness and usage! To learn more and watch a brief film about this campaign please click here.
Jannane Ka Haq - is a half hour special on the RTI Act aired on the DD News channel every Saturday at 10:30 am. Kabir provides RTI expertise and research for the program on an ongoing basis. The program features a phone-in RTI help section, video clips documenting RTI success stories from across the country, and discussions with experts in the field of RTI.