How to prepare RTI Application; 4 golden rules
While asking for information, the 4 golden rules are:
*a. **Point to various specific documents.* Your application should
look like a shopping-list of documents.
*b. **Name documents using words from Sec 2(f) and Sec 4(1)(b) *of the RTI Act - reports, logbooks, emails, advices, rules, regulations,
manuals etc. Only after exhausting these should you use other similar names e.g. quality audit reports, correspondence etc. In case this information is denied, the similarity of wordings will help you to convince appellate authorities that your requested information is "records" and "information" that must be mandatorily given.
*a. **Point to various specific documents.* Your application should
look like a shopping-list of documents.
*b. **Name documents using words from Sec 2(f) and Sec 4(1)(b) *of the RTI Act - reports, logbooks, emails, advices, rules, regulations,
manuals etc. Only after exhausting these should you use other similar names e.g. quality audit reports, correspondence etc. In case this information is denied, the similarity of wordings will help you to convince appellate authorities that your requested information is "records" and "information" that must be mandatorily given.
