India ,Youth and My Documentary

                 Recently I had the chance to make documentary film on corruption. It’s for the competition in my college “CYNO SURE” and I had participated for the celluloid i.e. the short film making. Well we had several plan to start with like FIGHT AGAINT CORUPPTION, RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, or we could take a real story and show it …. But I always wanted to make a documentary which will show what the young people of India think.
So after a lot of searching we arranged for the cam and a tripod … bingo tripod was awesome.
So to the shoot the documentary we went to JNMC, a medical college and started taking interviews of our youth doctors. But they came out to be all shit, before filming them on camera we use to ask them about corruption but they have no idea what it is or what are the problem faced by the common people due to corruption, for them the definition of corruption is only limited to their campus like giving donations to get into the college and bribing the senior doctors for marks and attendance. I know, giving donations to get admission in a college is a very big issue which deprives the student who really deserved to get a seat in college but as a youth of the country who will be serving or rather say healing the people of this country must be socially aware that what going on in this country . I was shocked to know that except for few nobody knew what was RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT ,they have not even heard about it . And those who knew about it don’t know what to do with it , they don’t know how to file a application and seek information . But after a long day of interviews we somehow managed to collect enough material for my documentary.
The best part was that after completing the film on the eve of the contest I came to know that documentary were not allowed itself... cant tell you how much fussed I was .. The event manager doesnt know what a documentary film is... he thought it’s same as masala film...
After a couple of arguments finally we were allowed to participate in the competition... and unfortunately we didn’t win it.
Anyway I seriously want to tell you how to file RTI application
The Central Information Commission gets over 400 RTI applications every day from across the country.


HOW TO FILE AN RTI APPLICATION


AN INDIAN citizen can seek information under RTI Act, 2005, on a simple paper addressed to the public information officer (PIO) of the concerned department.


THE APPLICANT must pay the RTI fee of Rs 10 per application, in cash, through bank draft or postal order along with the application.


THE PIO must provide the information within 30 days after receipt of application and within 48 hours if information sought concerns a person’s life and liberty.


THE PIO can ask for photocopy charges of Rs two per page for the information being provided.

NO RESPONSE? HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO


IF INFORMATION is not provided within stipulated 30 days, the applicant can file an appeal with the appellate authority of the department, from which information was sought. No fees to be paid.


IF YOU ARE not satisfied with the appellate authority’s decision, you can file a second appeal with the state information commission or the central information commission, depending on the jurisdiction of the information sought.


THE ACT GIVES the information commissions the power to impose a penalty of maximum of up to Rs 25, 0000 against the PIO if information has been denied deliberately.


So ask questions?