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 +====== About the Instructor — CPD Course ======
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 +**About Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak — editor of RTI Wiki and instructor of the PIO / FAA CPD course.**
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 +Part of the **[[:cpd:start|PIO / FAA CPD Course]]**.
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 +===== Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak — Instructor =====
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 +Editor of RTI Wiki, a plain-language reference on the RTI Act, 2005, with a long-running focus on PIO and First Appellate Authority drafting practice.
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 +==== Practice ====
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 +  * Trained **Public Information Officers** and **First Appellate Authorities** in central ministries, state departments, police, municipal corporations, and PSUs across India.
 +  * Drafted and reviewed reasoned PIO orders and First Appeals for departmental review teams.
 +  * Advised on the §8(1)(h) boundary between investigation protection and transparency.
 +  * Authored **practitioner notes** on major Supreme-Court RTI rulings.
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 +==== Teaching ====
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 +  * Editorial lead for the **PIO / FAA knowledge base**, covering the §8(1) clauses and §19 procedure.
 +  * Author of the **"Ask for records, not answers"** drafting framework.
 +  * Co-ordinator of the planned **quarterly editorial review**.
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 +==== Editorial ====
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 +  * **Editor, RTI Wiki.**
 +  * **Lead author** of the post-DPDP-2025 framework pages on §8(1)(j) and §8(2).
 +  * **Maintainer** of the reference corpus that grounds articles on this site.
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 +==== Writing ====
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 +Regular contributor on RTI to practitioner newsletters, legal journals, and training academies. Style: plain English, statute-first, case-law-anchored, tested against real-world PIO and FAA cases.
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 +==== Contact ====
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 +  * **Email:** ''[email protected]''
 +  * **CPD-specific:** ''[email protected]'' (coming soon)
 +  * **Editorial feedback:** [[:corrections|Corrections page]]
 +
 +===== Editorial board (forming) =====
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 +We are forming an **independent editorial review panel** of experienced RTI practitioners to co-review course content. We're actively onboarding — see **[[:about:editorial-review|Editorial Review — reviewer onboarding]]**.
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 +===== Why this course, from this instructor =====
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 +The gap is not in the Act. The Act is well-drafted — and the Supreme Court has done excellent work clarifying it over the years. **The gap is in everyday PIO drafting.** A three-minute order on a routine RTI is the norm. A three-minute order that is *also* reasoned, clause-specific, and writ-proof is possible — if the officer has the mental muscle memory and the templates ready to hand.
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 +This course gives you both. Not theory; muscle memory and templates. After years of reading PIO orders that say //"§8(1)(d) applies — request rejected"// (and watching the FAA overturn many of them), that is what I believe is worth teaching.
 +
 +===== Related =====
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 +  * **[[:cpd:start|CPD course landing]]**
 +  * **[[:cpd:curriculum|Full curriculum]]**
 +  * **[[:cpd:enrol|How to start — free]]**
 +  * **[[:cpd:certification|Certification]]**
 +  * [[:about:editor|RTI Wiki editor profile]]
 +  * [[:about:editorial-review|Editorial review panel]]
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 +----
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 +//Last reviewed: 21 April 2026.//
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 +{{tag>cpd instructor about}}