Officials organising a series of contests in Andhra Pradesh to raise RTI awareness
The event is a part of the year-long programmes being planned by the Andhra Pradesh State Information Department to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Right to Information Act. According to the schedule of the events, college-level competitions would be completed by July 28, the zonal level by August 6 and the State-level competitions on August 11. The Department also conducted several awareness programmes for faculty, office staff and students in government degree colleges from July 4 to July 18, 2025 to scale up awareness on RTI legislation.
Director, College Education, Narayan Bharat Gupta, Joint Director C. Krishna, Academic Guidance Officers and others are supervising the arrangements being made for successful conduct of the events.
Mr. Bharat Gupta expressed gratitude to the State Information Commissioner P. Samuel Jonathan for providing guidance for the event.
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