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What you get at the end
This page is deliberately blunt. Your time is valuable. Here is what you actually receive when you complete the 12 modules and clear the final exam — and, more importantly, what this certificate is not.
Short version. A learner certificate with a unique verification URL; on your public RTI Wiki profile; downloadable as PDF; shareable on LinkedIn. Not a degree, not an accreditation, not a legal qualification. It is a statement of completion — and a signal of discipline.
What you actually receive
- A one-page RTI Wiki CPD Certificate — your name, course title, date of completion, instructor signature, and a unique 10-character credential serial. Print-ready and PDF-ready through your browser.
- A verification URL of the format
righttoinformation.wiki/verify/<serial>— anyone (a hiring manager, your training department, a Commission bench) can resolve your name and completion date from the serial. No login needed for verification. - An “RTI Guardian 🏛” milestone on your My Learnings profile — visible to anyone you share your profile with.
- 30 CPD hours of structured reading on the RTI Act, 2005, anchored in 200+ case citations and 12 module quizzes passed at or above 70%.
What this certificate is NOT
- Not a statutory qualification. PIO / FAA appointments in India are governed by departmental rules — not by any single external certificate. This course does not make you eligible for any office.
- Not an accredited degree. There is no UGC / AICTE / BCI accreditation attached. Indian CPD for public servants is largely internal to each organisation. Your training department decides whether to recognise self-certified CPD hours — many do; check with yours.
- Not a licence to practise. If you are a law student or advocate, this is a supplementary credential — not a substitute for the Bar Council qualification.
- Not a guaranteed CIC/SIC admission. The Information Commissions apply their own recruitment rules.
So what is it worth?
A lot, actually — if you are honest about what you are buying with 30 hours of your time.
- A signal of discipline. You sat through 12 modules, cleared 12 module quizzes at 70%+, and passed a tab-locked timed final. Most officers will not. Most consultants will not. Most citizens will not. You did.
- A reputational credential. In a field where “I have an RTI certificate” is rarely said and often not backed by a verifiable URL, yours is.
- A conversation-starter. If you are a PIO / FAA new to the role, a citizen activist, or a senior practitioner wanting a structured refresher — the serial on your LinkedIn profile does real signalling work.
- A personal benchmark. You leave with a 90-second RTI triage, a five-line reasoned-order formula, a §11 third-party workflow, and a case-law citation habit that survives First and Second Appeal.
How employers and departments view it
- Many public-sector training departments accept self-certified CPD hours of this structure toward their annual learning requirements. Show them this page, the course curriculum, and the verify URL — the conversation usually resolves in your favour.
- Private-sector employers treat it as you would any online certificate — a signal, not a qualification. Combined with your primary degree and work experience, it helps.
- Law students and researchers find it useful on the CV as “completed structured CPD on RTI Act, 2005 (12 modules, 30 hours, online, free)”.
- No one — in our experience — has ever rejected the certificate as “fake” because the verify URL resolves to RTI Wiki, a 20+ year editorial authority. See Why trust this course.
Verification, in one line
https://righttoinformation.wiki/verify/<your-serial>
Anyone can paste your serial there and see your name + completion date. No login, no fee. If the URL resolves, the certificate is real.
What if I lose my certificate?
Nothing to lose. Log in to your RTI Wiki account, open your profile, click “View certificate”. It is always there. You can re-download, re-print, and re-share the URL any number of times.
What about future recognition?
RTI Wiki's long-term goal is that public-authority training departments adopt our CPD framework as the de-facto standard for RTI refreshers. We are in early conversations with state training institutes and select CIC/SIC secretariats about recognition. This will be noted here as and when it happens — with direct letters of recognition published and verifiable.
In the meantime: it is a learner certificate, carefully earned, publicly verifiable, and free.
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Last reviewed: 21 April 2026.
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