How to use RTI to solve personal problems?

How to use RTI to solve personal problems?

Be it never-ending delay in dispatch of passport or police dilly-dallying in giving you a copy of FIR you might have filed, submit an RTI application asking pointed questions. Highly likely this will be the beginning of the end of your woes. Pending income tax return, pension's release, withdrawal or transfer of PF, release of Aadhaar card or issuance of property documents or driving licence. Using the RTI tool in any of these scenarios—or other cases involving a government agency—will guarantee you an official response, based on which you can take things further if your issue is not solved.

A citizen can ask government officials reasons for delay in government service requested for. For example, if you have applied for passport and it has not been delivered. Then one can apply RTI with the following questions:

Please provide daily progress done on my passport application.

Please provide names of officers with whom my application has been lying during this period.

Please inform as per your citizen’s charter in how many days I should have got my passport.

In majority of cases, the problem gets resolved.

This way you can use RTI to solve many other pending issues and especially the ones where bribe is being asked.

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