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Pravasi Legal Cell is happy to announce its National RTI Award for the year 2019 K. Padmanabhan Memorial National Award for RTI Activists, 2019 will be awarded to Shri. Subhash Chandra Agrawal and Shri. R. Radhakrishnan. Shri. Subash Chandra Agrawal is a well-known RTI activist in the country. In a petition filed by him, the Hon’ble Supreme Court had ruled in 2019 that the office of the Chief Justice of India would come under purview of the RTI Act 2005. He was successful in achieving many such orders which have strengthened the Act. As a person who worked for the protection and welfare of people in the media, journalist Shri. R. Radhakrishnan has made important interventions by using the Right to Information Act 2005. He serves as the Bureau Chief at News 24, New Delhi. K. Padmanabhan Memorial National Award for RTI activists is instituted by Pravasi Legal Cell in memory of Shri. K. Padmanabhan, its first General Secretary. He was a retired Intelligence Bureau office...

Dear Friends, A few photographs from the Awareness programme organised  by Pravasi Legal Cell’s Kerala Chapter and Study Path International, Australia on studying abroad. We are grateful to Study Path International and its members for helping us to organise such an awareness event at Cochin in a short period of time. Many thanks to all those who participated.  Thank you Dr. Bins Sebastian  Secretary, Pravasi Legal Cell

Dear friends, Please find a few news reports by national and regional media about PLC's Public Interest Litigation, challenging Rule 43 of the Aircraft (Public Health) Rules, 1954 which mandates advance intimation of atleast 48 hours to the airport health officers about the incoming of Indian citizens' mortal remains from abroad. The Hon’ble Delhi High Court has held that the 48 hours prior intimation is not mandatory for repatriation of dead bodies to India as was enforced by Air India in the year 2017. In News Live Law: https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/48-hours-advance-intimation-not-mandatory-to-bring-mortal-remains-of-indian-emigrants-from-abroad-centre-tells-delhi-hc-152775 Sathyam Online: https://www.sathyamonline.com/national-news-delhi-highcourt/ Deepika  https://www.deepika.com/nri/Pravasi_News.aspx?nriCode=NRI6&newscode=114863