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Objectives
The Information Needed For Optimistic Reforms in Manmade System (Informs) seeks to empower people and to deepen democracy, through promoting people’s right to information. Through the use of this right, it seeks to fight corruption and social apathy, to make governments, and other institutions and agencies having an impact on public welfare, more humane and accountable to the people, and to promote efficiency and frugality.
Values
The INFORMS is committed to support participatory, just, secular and humane democracy.
Methods and Activities
The INFORMS endeavors to constantly engage and interact with the state and with other institutions and agencies. It campaigns for the enactment and use of a right to information law that is effective and accessible to all, and supports people’s efforts at developing the ability and motivation to use the right to information for addressing individual and social problems. For educating people on right to Information we have specially designed online course. It works at disseminating the RTI law and encourages and supports the development of materials related to transparency and governance, the raising of awareness about the fundamental value of information, the conduct of research, and the setting up of information clearing houses. It seeks to further the cause of transparency by adopting other direct and indirect methods, including the filing of information requests, the fighting of legal cases, and the holding of public hearings.
The INFORMS seeks to actively work with other progressive campaigns and movements and in solidarity with other progressive elements of society.
Past Activities
The Information Needed For Optimistic Reforms in Manmade System (Informs) was founded in 2010. Its founding members included social activists, journalists, lawyers, professionals, retired civil servants and academics, and one of its primary objectives was to campaign for a national law facilitating the exercise of the fundamental right to information.
As a first step, the INFORMS formulated an online course on Right to Information Act which can be accessed by the person by registering it and certificate is given on its completion. We have also organized number of Seminars and Talk on Right To Information Act.
Structure
The INFORMS is a group that works under Crescent Shikshan Prasark Mandal which is a registered society and managed according to a constitution.
Funding Sources
The INMFORMS accept institutional funds, from India or abroad, and is financed through individual donations. We have an annual budget of roughly Rs. 1,50,000, which includes all overhead payments and salaries of a skeleton staff that runs the INFORMS office, in Ballarpur. Details of our accounts are available on our website.
Management
The founding members of Information Needed For Optimistic Reforms in Manmade System (Informs), which was launched in 2010 are Dr. Z.J. Khan, Adv. Z.k. Khan, Nitin Bansode, Mohd. Nazim Khan, Naved Quershi and Niraj Verma.
The INFORMS is managed by a Working Committee. The members of the INFORMS Working Committee are Nilesh Ramteke, Rauf, Niraj Verma, Uday Mirani, Bhushan Pimpalkar, Adv. Dhiraj Singh Chauhan, Naved N. Khan
STRUCTURE OF INFORMS
Structure of the INFORMS
The INFORMS has, as members known as MAHITI SEVAK, individuals who subscribe to the common objectives and values of the INFORMS. The person have to complete fifteen days course and pass an examination for qualifying as MAHITI SEVAK and MAHITI SEVAK shall be promoted after a particular period as MAHITI PRACHARAK who will promote and start ‘RTI DAVAKHANA’ for the specified period.
The Working Committee (WC) of the INFORMS nominates a Campaign Committee. Ordinarily, persons invited to serve on the Campaign Committee include those who share the values of the INFORMS and: Are already working on the Right to Information, and/or
Are leaders of other progressive movements and are interested in the RTI, and/or
Have a good Knowledge of computer and internet.
Are accomplished individuals in other walks of life - academia, arts and culture etc., who would enrich the RTI campaign and who are interested in contributing to it.
Members of the Campaign Committee are members for life, unless they resign or cease to be members of the INFORMS.
The INFORMS has a Working Committee, whose members are nominated by the Campaign Committee from among its own members or from outside. The first working committee has a tenure of two years. Subsequently, a member of the working committee will have a tenure of one years and members will be so elected that not all the members finish their tenures in the same year. The working committee will not have more than 21 members and members would be eligible for re-election.
The Working Committee will nominate, from among its members, a Convenor for the INFORMS, who will serve in an honorary capacity for a tenure of one years.
There will be a full-time Secretary of the INFORMS, who will assist the Working Committee and the Convenor, and will be appointed, on behalf of the INFORMS, by the Convenor. The Secretary, in turn, will appoint other appropriate support staff, in consultation with the Convenor.
Duties and Functions of committees and functionaries
The members of the INFORMS have the right to be invited to the National Convention, whenever it is held, and to receive at least once a year the annual report of the INFORMS. They have the obligation to uphold the values of the INFORMS and to support its activities, wherever possible.
The Campaign Committee of the INFORMS has the responsibility to nominate a Working Committee, and to fully support and participate in the activities of the INFORMS. The members of the Campaign Committee are also members of the INFORMS and have all the attendant duties and functions.
The Working Committee is the main decision making body of the INFORMS. It is also responsible for nominating the Campaign Committee and the Convenor, as specified earlier. All policy decisions regarding the INFORMS are to be made by the WC. In addition, it also has the responsibility of raising resources for the INFORMS and of periodically reviewing its objectives, programmes and methods.
The Convenor has the responsibility of convening meetings of the INFORMS and its various bodies and of ensuring that the decisions of the WC are carried out by the INFORMS. The Convenor also plays the coordination role and, with the assistance of the Secretary and other staff, manages the administration of the INFORMS.
The Information Needed For Optimistic Reforms in Manmade System (Informs) seeks to empower people and to deepen democracy, through promoting people’s right to information. Through the use of this right, it seeks to fight corruption and social apathy, to make governments, and other institutions and agencies having an impact on public welfare, more humane and accountable to the people, and to promote efficiency and frugality.
Values
The INFORMS is committed to support participatory, just, secular and humane democracy.
Methods and Activities
The INFORMS endeavors to constantly engage and interact with the state and with other institutions and agencies. It campaigns for the enactment and use of a right to information law that is effective and accessible to all, and supports people’s efforts at developing the ability and motivation to use the right to information for addressing individual and social problems. For educating people on right to Information we have specially designed online course. It works at disseminating the RTI law and encourages and supports the development of materials related to transparency and governance, the raising of awareness about the fundamental value of information, the conduct of research, and the setting up of information clearing houses. It seeks to further the cause of transparency by adopting other direct and indirect methods, including the filing of information requests, the fighting of legal cases, and the holding of public hearings.
The INFORMS seeks to actively work with other progressive campaigns and movements and in solidarity with other progressive elements of society.
Past Activities
The Information Needed For Optimistic Reforms in Manmade System (Informs) was founded in 2010. Its founding members included social activists, journalists, lawyers, professionals, retired civil servants and academics, and one of its primary objectives was to campaign for a national law facilitating the exercise of the fundamental right to information.
As a first step, the INFORMS formulated an online course on Right to Information Act which can be accessed by the person by registering it and certificate is given on its completion. We have also organized number of Seminars and Talk on Right To Information Act.
Structure
The INFORMS is a group that works under Crescent Shikshan Prasark Mandal which is a registered society and managed according to a constitution.
Funding Sources
The INMFORMS accept institutional funds, from India or abroad, and is financed through individual donations. We have an annual budget of roughly Rs. 1,50,000, which includes all overhead payments and salaries of a skeleton staff that runs the INFORMS office, in Ballarpur. Details of our accounts are available on our website.
Management
The founding members of Information Needed For Optimistic Reforms in Manmade System (Informs), which was launched in 2010 are Dr. Z.J. Khan, Adv. Z.k. Khan, Nitin Bansode, Mohd. Nazim Khan, Naved Quershi and Niraj Verma.
The INFORMS is managed by a Working Committee. The members of the INFORMS Working Committee are Nilesh Ramteke, Rauf, Niraj Verma, Uday Mirani, Bhushan Pimpalkar, Adv. Dhiraj Singh Chauhan, Naved N. Khan
STRUCTURE OF INFORMS
Structure of the INFORMS
The INFORMS has, as members known as MAHITI SEVAK, individuals who subscribe to the common objectives and values of the INFORMS. The person have to complete fifteen days course and pass an examination for qualifying as MAHITI SEVAK and MAHITI SEVAK shall be promoted after a particular period as MAHITI PRACHARAK who will promote and start ‘RTI DAVAKHANA’ for the specified period.
The Working Committee (WC) of the INFORMS nominates a Campaign Committee. Ordinarily, persons invited to serve on the Campaign Committee include those who share the values of the INFORMS and: Are already working on the Right to Information, and/or
Are leaders of other progressive movements and are interested in the RTI, and/or
Have a good Knowledge of computer and internet.
Are accomplished individuals in other walks of life - academia, arts and culture etc., who would enrich the RTI campaign and who are interested in contributing to it.
Members of the Campaign Committee are members for life, unless they resign or cease to be members of the INFORMS.
The INFORMS has a Working Committee, whose members are nominated by the Campaign Committee from among its own members or from outside. The first working committee has a tenure of two years. Subsequently, a member of the working committee will have a tenure of one years and members will be so elected that not all the members finish their tenures in the same year. The working committee will not have more than 21 members and members would be eligible for re-election.
The Working Committee will nominate, from among its members, a Convenor for the INFORMS, who will serve in an honorary capacity for a tenure of one years.
There will be a full-time Secretary of the INFORMS, who will assist the Working Committee and the Convenor, and will be appointed, on behalf of the INFORMS, by the Convenor. The Secretary, in turn, will appoint other appropriate support staff, in consultation with the Convenor.
Duties and Functions of committees and functionaries
The members of the INFORMS have the right to be invited to the National Convention, whenever it is held, and to receive at least once a year the annual report of the INFORMS. They have the obligation to uphold the values of the INFORMS and to support its activities, wherever possible.
The Campaign Committee of the INFORMS has the responsibility to nominate a Working Committee, and to fully support and participate in the activities of the INFORMS. The members of the Campaign Committee are also members of the INFORMS and have all the attendant duties and functions.
The Working Committee is the main decision making body of the INFORMS. It is also responsible for nominating the Campaign Committee and the Convenor, as specified earlier. All policy decisions regarding the INFORMS are to be made by the WC. In addition, it also has the responsibility of raising resources for the INFORMS and of periodically reviewing its objectives, programmes and methods.
The Convenor has the responsibility of convening meetings of the INFORMS and its various bodies and of ensuring that the decisions of the WC are carried out by the INFORMS. The Convenor also plays the coordination role and, with the assistance of the Secretary and other staff, manages the administration of the INFORMS.
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