Know "RTI" - Right to Information
Right to Information (RTI) is the right of every citizen in India. As a student is a valuable citizen too, a section of this right is provided specifically for the students to gain their entitled information and secure admissions in educational institutions of their choice.
Information is useful to students in many ways, like information relating to cut off marks in admissions in educational institutions, cut off marks in competitive exams etc. Under RTI Act , every student has a right to know the functioning of every Public Authority i.e. universities and other educational institutions, which are also declared as Public Authorities.
According to section 2(f) of the RTI Act, “Information” means any material in form , including records , documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advises, press releases, circulars, orders, log books, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any law for the time being in force.” However, all information cannot be given, there are some restrictions in providing information and there are some exceptions under RTI. These include, examining bodies will have to permit inspections sought by the examiners, with limited restrictions like those portions of answer books which contain information regarding the examiner or which may disclose identity with reference to signature or initials shall be removed , covered or otherwise severed from the answer book under section 10 of RTI Act. The main essence of RTI Act is to provide information within a specified time, failure to provide information to any citizen, in a specified time limit attracts penalties besides disciplinary action to any public official. The biggest success story of RTI is the one where a student made use of RTI provisions. There’s a teacher in a remote village in Tehri district of Uttarakhand State wasn't attending the school regularly. A student, Mahavir who heard a lecture on RTI, became an RTI activist. He was vexed with the irregular attendance of the teacher and he filed an application under RTI requesting the officials of the Educational Department “to inform the number of days the teacher attended the school during the last 3 years.” The district officials inquired into the matter and it was found that the teacher was not properly attending school. The District Educational Officer warned the teacher. Since then, the teacher was regular in attending the school. The RTI Act serves a valuable purpose and students must make use of it to improve their career prospects to the maximum.
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