Editorial — RTI Wiki

RTI Wiki's editorial direction is set by a small editorial board and executed by a compact editorial team. Articles are written and reviewed by the team and carry the collective credit “RTI Wiki Editorial Team” rather than individual bylines — a deliberate choice: the work is collaborative, and it protects contributors who write critically about specific authorities. Where an article relies substantially on a guest expert, they are credited at the bottom of that article.

• Primary first: statutory text is quoted from the Act as amended; rules, notifications and office memoranda are traced to official publications; case holdings are stated from the reported decision, with the citation shown on the page.
• No claim without a source: material that cannot be verified against a real, citable source is dropped — not softened and kept.
• Supersession watch: year-bound facts (fee schedules, portal status, circulars) carry their verification date and are re-checked on review; see Methodology.
• Corrections are public: a corrected page says so in its Last reviewed note.

Every page carries a Last reviewed date. High-churn pages — state fees, portal status, rules — are re-verified on a rolling schedule; the state fee hub, for example, was verified against state primary sources on 26 August 2026. Statutory and case pages are re-read against the current text at review.

• Not legal advice: pages are citizen-first explanations and editorial summaries; for a live matter, verify citations against the reported decisions and consult a lawyer.
• Not a filing service: the tools draft documents; they do not file for you and take no fee for filing.
• Not affiliated with any government body — see Independence below.

If you find a factual error, an outdated rule or citation, or want to verify an editorial decision, write to [email protected] or use the corrections page. We respond to correction requests within a few working days, and confirmed errors are fixed with a dated note on the page.

RTI Wiki is an editorial project of Big Helpers, an independent Indian civic-technology organisation. It is not owned by, partnered with, or contracted to any law firm, NGO, government body or commercial RTI service, and editorial decisions are not subject to external veto.

Contributors write in a personal editorial capacity, independent of any government body, political party, or commercial RTI-filing service. We do not accept payment for editorial coverage or favourable treatment of any service.

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Last reviewed: 27 August 2026. Individual editor attribution replaced with the collective board/team credit the page already used elsewhere; sources policy, review cadence and what-we-are-not sections added.