A mobile multi-media van ‘RTI on Wheels’, which was launched to make people aware about the Right to Information (RTI) Act in remote areas, has completed a year in the state on March 17.

The Gujarat State Information Commission, Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA) and Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP) jointly launched ‘RTI on Wheels’ in 2008.

In a period of 12-months, RTI on wheels reached about 80,000 people in 450 villages and 13 cities.

The mobile van has been fitted with audio-visual equipment plus Internet service to help its skilled volunteers to help provide proper information to people, and work out their queries.
 
Despite video shows and debates in the field, the mobile van also acts as a mobile legal clinic in order to help people draft applications, petitions and grievances.

The mobile van has also gone outside Gujarat, and visited nearest states of Maharashtra and Rajasthan during the last year.

In Mumbai and Pune, it was invited by Public Concern or Governance Trust and Bombay Chartered Accountant’s Association.

In Rajasthan Majdoor Kissan Shakti Sangathan invited it for conducting awareness campaigns in Bhilwada, Udaipur and Alwar districts.