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Right to Information/ Transparency/ Accountability/ Right to Hearing | Chandigarh gets Asia’s first RTI library

Chandigarh gets Asia’s first RTI library

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published Published on Jun 17, 2012   modified Modified on Jun 17, 2012
-The Times of India

CHANDIGARH: If you wish to see, possess or deposit papers related to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, then here is good news for you. A library of RTI documents, touted as Asia's first, was inaugurated at Dwarka Das Library, Lala Lajpat Rai Bhawan on Friday. The library has been formed by Servants of People's Society in association with the Citizens' Voice and RTI Users' Association.

Interestingly, it was also the seventh anniversary of the RTI Act in the country. A large number of RTI documents were deposited with the library on the inaugural day.

Onkar Chand, chairman of the Servants of the People's Society, said, "Making documents public will help those who want to refer them for litigation or research purposes. The process to collect documents from RTI users is on and we will upload the whole collection online within a few months, making it possible for anybody to access the information from anywhere in the world."

Hemant Goswami, chairman of the Citizens' Voice, said the library would ensure that documents procured by RTI users are put to further use.

The library is an open source depository of information collected under the RTI Act. Anybody can become a member of this library free of cost and can also contribute to information available. The documents will be catalogued according to subject matter, ministry/department and whether they relate to the central or state government, making it easy for anybody to navigate through the collection.

"We call upon all RTI users to share the documents that are of no use to them now," said Goswami.
 

The Times of India, 16 June, 2012, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-16/chandigarh/32268450_1_rti-act-information-documents


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