Articles tagged with: Infocracy India

Law schools show dismal record of RTI Act compliance

Rights through Information
Rights through Information
As the government has constituted a new taskforce to enforce implementation of access to the Right to Information, research by Infocracy India suggests that most law schools are not complying with the law.

Enabling school kids to fight corruption with information: Petitition- RTI drafting in languages' syllabus

You can sign the petition here http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/rti-in-schools/ It reads: School children in India should be taught on how to draft an RTI (Right to Information) application as a part of their school curricullum. Just as students learn ‘letter writing’ in English, Hindi or other la...

Infocracy: Making high school RTI drafting classes mandatory; Improving law school worker conditions

Infocracy India, an initiative to increase RTI activism amongst Indian law students, is launching a project to make RTI drafting an obligatory part of the Class 10 school syllabus and to investigate whether minimum wage is paid to campus labourers.

IMPACT: Ugly Iguana on a Tiny Island or India i.e Bharat?

Infocracy India, legal aid societies The legal aid societies whom we’ve contacted have asked us a few questions. Very pertinent and straight-forward too. Here are the questions and our answers. For more details please see www.infocracyindia.org What do the legal aid societies get? A chance to make a...

Infocracy's Fourth Monkey: Law students can use RTI Act to devastative effect

Fourth monkey is the monkey of the 21st century. The poor animal can’t help but see evil all around. The poor animal can’t help but hear evil all around. And what does he/she do? He raises his voice against it.

Infocracy India: Become a social lawyer and community journalist

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A man walks along a beach, picks up a starfish and flings it into the ocean. He does it with all the starfish he finds. Someone asks him: “Hey! There are thousands of starfish here. What difference are you making?” The man bends down, picks up another starfish and flings it into the ocean. “It makes difference to this one.”