The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Ministry of
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India (GoI)
has launched an 'Online Certificate Course on RTI' for various
stakeholders.
This Online Certificate Course on RTI is launched in
association with the Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad.
With a view to make the earlier 15-day course more interesting
and practical, now the course has been bifurcated into two versions,
namely - 7-Day Online Certificate Course (English)
and 15-Day Online Certificate Course (English).
While the 7-day course will be introductory in nature, the
15-day course will be extensive and with a hands-on orientation
whereby candidates will have to practically apply the RTI Act during
the course. In other words, the 15-day course will be based on the
principle of "learning while doing". Therefore, it is requested that
those who take the 7-day course should also go for the 15-day course
for experiencing the practical utility of the RTI Act.
The primary objective of the course(s) is to make both
information providers and information seekers aware on the salient
features of the RTI Act, 2005. Thus, the course(s) is/are useful to
both government employees and common citizens.
- Public Information Officers (PIOs)
- Assistant Public Information Officers (APIOs)
- Appellate Authorities
- Officials assisting the above designated officers or other
public officials Citizens
- Representative of Civil Society Organisations (including
Media Organisations)
- Any other person(s) who could be a direct / indirect
stakeholder
Successful completion of the 7-day course will be mandatory in order
to be eligible to take the 15-day version of the course. Besides, for
registering in the 15-day course a candidate will be required to file an
RTI application with any public service delivery public authority. At
the time of registration the candidate has to give the reference to the
RTI application filed along with the response s/he has received. The 15
day course can only be taken after 6 weeks to enable the RTI application
to be filed and a response to be received.
The second aspect of this 15-day hands-on version of the course
mandates a candidate to conduct a proactive disclosure (Section 4 (1)
(b) of the RTI Act) study of any public service delivery public
authority. This will be a desk study based on which the candidate will
submit a report at the end of the course. This report on the proactive
disclosures study will be evaluated on set criteria and accordingly an
online certificate will be issued to each successful candidate.
Posted By Manu Kaushik22:48
