The RTI Wiki team

RTI Wiki is produced by a small, independent editorial team, led by editor Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak. It is an editorial project of Big Helpers, an independent Indian civic-technology organisation. Articles are curated and reviewed by the team rather than openly editable by the public — a deliberate choice: legal and procedural guidance that a citizen might act on cannot be left to drive-by edits.

The site now carries more than 4,000 pages of guides, tools and reference material on the Right to Information Act 2005 and the services around it — state fee rules, first-appeal builders, court-route explainers, exam-result RTIs, banking and telecom escalation paths.

1. Curated, not crowd-edited. Every page is written and reviewed by our editorial team. We are not a community-editable wiki.
2. Primary-source verified. A number with legal consequences — a fee, a deadline, a helpline, a portal address — is checked against the statute, rule, circular, regulator page or judgment itself, not against another article that mentions it. Where a figure could not be verified, it is dropped rather than carried forward.
3. Dated. Pages carry a last-reviewed line so you can see how fresh the verification is. India's rules change — fee schedules are superseded, portals migrate, schemes are renamed — and a guide that hides its age is a guide that lies quietly.
4. Corrected openly. If you find an error, file a correction request — we log material corrections on the affected page.
5. Audited on a schedule. Clusters are re-checked in quarterly waves — links tested live from the network, superseded rules re-checked against the source. See the quarterly audit page.

Content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) licence unless otherwise marked — you may reuse it, including commercially, with attribution to RTI Wiki.

The site is free to read. It is supported by advertising and by The RTI Playbook, our paid complete-method book; nothing sits behind a paywall that a citizen needs to exercise a statutory right.

• We are not lawyers and nothing here is legal advice; it is plain-language documentation of statute, rule and practice.
• We are not a government body — we file no RTIs on your behalf and have no official standing. Our job is that you never need to pay anyone to draft one.
• We do not publish personal data of readers, and our examples use fictional composite personas, not real people's cases.

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Last reviewed: 27 August 2026.