Pravasi Legal Cell national award for emerging RTI Activists

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Pravasi Legal cell has invited applications for the K.Padmanabhan Memorial National Award for the RTI activists. The award is instituted in the memory of K.Padmanabhan, an RTI activist and the first Vice President of Pravasi Legal Cell.

The award is constituted to encourage and appreciate emerging RTI activists of the country. The award will be given to activists who have been working to make social changes using the Right to Information Act. The application will be scrutinized by an expert committee and the award will be given away in the month of October 2017.



Further details and the application form can be downloaded from the Pravasi legal cell website www.pravasilegalcell.org/. The last date for receiving the applications is 30th September 2017.

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