Civil Society & Right to Information
Civil Society & Right to Information
NIA: Capacity Building for Right to Information
RTI is a weapon in the hands of Civil Society. RTI empowers the civil society with the Right to seek information and helps in:
* Enabling Good Governance * Ensuring accountability and transparency * Ensuring participation of public in governance * Eliminating corruption &
Empowering people
Civil Society & Right to Information
Volunteers from Civil Society Organisation can invoke RTI to access any:
• Information pertaining to any of public authorities • Photocopies of Government contracts, payment, estimates, measurements of engineering works, drawings, records books and registers etc. • Samples of materials used in the construction of any Government project like roads, drains, buildings etc.
Right to Information
& Social Audit
To attain greater public accountability and transparency using RTI, CSOs across India have adopted a novel social accountability tool that goes hand in glove with RTI – SOCIAL AUDIT.
“Social Audit is an independent and participatory evaluation of the performance of a public agency or a programme or scheme. Social Audit enables the Civil Society to assess whether a public authority lives up to the shared values and objectives it is committed to”.
The RTI Act can be coupled with Social Audit to ensure the following:
• Access and audit availability of information in the public domain. • Generate demystified and understandable formats for better public comprehension. • Provide for the community to verify recorded information • Facilitate a regime of transparency and accountability
Examples of How RTI can be used to undertake Social Audit of Government processes, programmes and schemes
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Volunteers from CSOs can inspect mandatory records maintained by Gram Panchayats & seek information & explanation under the scheme. Records
NIA: Capacity Building for Right to Information
RTI is a weapon in the hands of Civil Society. RTI empowers the civil society with the Right to seek information and helps in:
* Enabling Good Governance * Ensuring accountability and transparency * Ensuring participation of public in governance * Eliminating corruption &
Empowering people
Civil Society & Right to Information
Volunteers from Civil Society Organisation can invoke RTI to access any:
• Information pertaining to any of public authorities • Photocopies of Government contracts, payment, estimates, measurements of engineering works, drawings, records books and registers etc. • Samples of materials used in the construction of any Government project like roads, drains, buildings etc.
Right to Information
& Social Audit
To attain greater public accountability and transparency using RTI, CSOs across India have adopted a novel social accountability tool that goes hand in glove with RTI – SOCIAL AUDIT.
“Social Audit is an independent and participatory evaluation of the performance of a public agency or a programme or scheme. Social Audit enables the Civil Society to assess whether a public authority lives up to the shared values and objectives it is committed to”.
The RTI Act can be coupled with Social Audit to ensure the following:
• Access and audit availability of information in the public domain. • Generate demystified and understandable formats for better public comprehension. • Provide for the community to verify recorded information • Facilitate a regime of transparency and accountability
Examples of How RTI can be used to undertake Social Audit of Government processes, programmes and schemes
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Volunteers from CSOs can inspect mandatory records maintained by Gram Panchayats & seek information & explanation under the scheme. Records