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| + | metatag-description=(Final certificate page for the RTI Wiki Activists course - 6 modules on movement-building, | ||
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| + | ====== Activists' | ||
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| + | **You have completed the 6-module RTI Wiki Activists Course.** This course trains organisers, journalists and citizen-rights workers to use the Right to Information Act, 2005 as a movement weapon - mass RTI campaigns, coordinated filings, FAA escalation and Section 19 strategic wins. The course assumes you can already file a basic Section 6(1) application; | ||
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| + | ===== What you covered ===== | ||
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| + | - **Module 1: The activist' | ||
| + | - **Module 2: Mass-RTI campaigns** - how to coordinate 50+ identical RTIs from different citizens to force institutional pattern recognition. The **Common Cause v. Union of India** mass-RTI strategy template. | ||
| + | - **Module 3: PIO accountability** - using §20 penalty + §19(8)(b) compensation to hold a stalling PIO personally accountable. **MJ Antony v. SBI** fee-dispute principle. **NCPRI 2018 study** on penalty levy across states. | ||
| + | - **Module 4: FAA + Information Commission strategy** - drafting a §19(1) appeal that wins, when to file with the **Central Information Commission** vs the **State IC**, and how to invoke **Anjali Bhardwaj v. UoI (2019)** when an IC is sitting on appeals due to vacancies. | ||
| + | - **Module 5: Litigation pathways** - High Court writ under Article 226 when the PIO + FAA + IC chain fails. *Bhagat Singh v. CIC* litigation cost test. | ||
| + | - **Module 6: DPDP Act 2023 impact** - what the §44(3) amendment did to §8(1)(j) and why your activist RTIs should now invoke §8(2) public-interest balance instead. | ||
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| + | ===== Certificate ===== | ||
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| + | * **Issued to**: [download personalised certificate from the link sent to your registered email] | ||
| + | * **Issued by**: RTI Wiki Editorial Team, May 2026 | ||
| + | * **Verifies**: | ||
| + | * **Verification URL**: https:// | ||
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| + | If you trained as a cohort, your collective record sits at [[: | ||
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| + | ===== What to do next ===== | ||
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| + | - **File your first activist RTI** - use our [[https:// | ||
| + | - **Track responses** with the [[https:// | ||
| + | - **Build your campaign page** - share with us at [email protected] if you want it featured in the Success Stories section. | ||
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| + | ===== Citations grounded in this course ===== | ||
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| + | * **RTI Act, 2005** - especially §6(1), §7(1), §7(2), §8(1)(j), §8(2), §10, §11, §19, §20. | ||
| + | * **Anjali Bhardwaj v. Union of India** (2019) 9 SCC 199 - timely + transparent IC appointments. | ||
| + | * **CPIO SC v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal** (2020) 5 SCC 481 - office of CJI is public authority. | ||
| + | * **Bhagat Singh v. CIC** (2008) Delhi HC - PIO cannot defeat RTI through procedural objections. | ||
| + | * **Common Cause v. UoI** - mass-RTI MPLADS audit. | ||
| + | * **DPDP Act 2023**, §44(3) - amendment to §8(1)(j) proviso, in force 14 November 2025. | ||
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| + | ===== Related on RTI Wiki ===== | ||
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| + | * [[: | ||
| + | * [[: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[: | ||
| + | * [[:act|RTI Act, 2005]] | ||
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| + | //Last reviewed: 4 May 2026.// | ||
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