RTI Assistant — all-in-one tool, 2026

RTI Assistant is the unified tool — start with a problem description and it walks you through draft → file → track → first-appeal → second-appeal in one workflow. Behind the scenes it composes the same engines as the standalone tools.

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1. **Describe the problem in plain words** — "the municipality has not fixed the street light complaint from March" is enough; the tool asks for only the details the law needs
2. **It picks the questions to ask** — records, registers and periods, not "why" questions that PIOs lawfully refuse
3. **It names the public authority and its PIO** — the single biggest reason applications die is the wrong office; the drafter fits the authority to the record
4. **It fills the fee and format** — ₹10, the state's payment mode, the six fields that matter
5. **The timeline tracker counts the clock** — 30 days to the reply, 48 hours where life or liberty is involved, and the first-appeal window the day the clock runs out
6. **When the reply is wrong or absent**, the First Appeal Builder reuses your application as its exhibit — the appeal writes itself from the record
7. **The PIO Reply Checker** reads the answer you received and flags what is missing, deferred without cause, or exempt-claimed without severance

Nothing to install, nothing to sign, and your text stays yours — the drafts export as printable letters for post, or as entries for the online portals.

Real example. Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak's first use was a municipal water-works file he knew nothing about: one paragraph in, the drafter had named the PIO, framed five register-point questions and set the 30-day clock. The reply — with the file's key pages — arrived on day 28. The tool does not make the law work faster; it makes the application impossible to return.

• You have a stuck application — government department not replying to your routine query.
• You have been told “we cannot share this” — a PIO has cited Section 8 without proper severance / public-interest balance.
• You want to build a case — for a journalist scoop, an activist campaign, or your own civil-court matter.
• You are a first-time RTI filer — the tool guides you through the right authority + the right questions.

• It does not file for you — it drafts; the ₹10 and the submission stay in your hands
• It does not write “why” questions — RTI delivers records, not cross-examination
• It does not promise outcomes — it promises enforceable drafts: numbered, single-subject, office-correct

The tool's drafting engine is grounded in:

• Right to Information Act, 2005 — full text
• Bhagat Singh v. CIC (Delhi HC, 2007) — procedural objections cannot defeat RTI
• CPIO Supreme Court v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal (2020) 5 SCC 481 — Constitution Bench on §8(1)(j)
• Girish Ramchandra Deshpande v. CIC (2013) 1 SCC 212 — personal information test
• Anjali Bhardwaj v. UoI (2019) 9 SCC 199 — IC accountability + transparent appointments

Yes — every tool in the suite, the Assistant included, is free and needs no account. No sign-in, no email wall, no paid tier behind the draft.

No. Describe the problem in one paragraph; the tool selects the sections and frames the points. The drafts it prints carry the section numbers, so the PIO sees the law without you having studied it.

The drafts follow the statutory pattern — authority, numbered record-points, fee mode, signature. Read the draft once for names, dates and numbers; the facts are yours, and one wrong figure costs weeks.

No, by design. It drafts the letter for post or the portal form's fields for online filing — the submission and the ₹10 stay with you, which is also what keeps the tool free.

Silence on day 30 is a deemed refusal — the timeline tracker flags the date, and the First Appeal Builder produces the appeal with your application and proof of fee attached. See the first-appeal format for the grounds.

• All RTI tools
• Sample RTI letters index
• Case-law database (300+)
• Master directory of landmark RTI rulings
• RTI Act, 2005
• The RTI Playbook

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026.