📝 RTI Legal Assistance & Information Services
Helpful Foundation provides RTI (Right to Information) assistance to individuals, consumers, and victims who seek transparency, accountability, and answers from government departments or public authorities.
Our RTI experts help clients draft, review, and file effective RTI applications that bring out crucial information to support complaints, cases, or grievances.
📌 RTI Drafting Help
✔ Citizens explain their issue in simple words (via WhatsApp, Website, or Email).
✔ Our Consultant converts it into a formal RTI draft (legally correct format).
✔ Citizen receives a ready-to-file RTI application (PDF/Word).
✅ Why Choose Us?
- Simple, Fast & Affordable
- Draft prepared within 24 hours
- 100% Legally Correct Format (RTI Act, 2005)
- Ready for Online or Offline Filing
RTI Legal Assistance & Information Services Fee Structure
| 💼 Plan | 💰 Details & Features |
|---|---|
| 🟢 🧾 Basic RTI Application Plan | Fee: ₹349/- 📅 Validity: Single Filing 🕒 Delivery: Within 2–4 hours ✍️ Includes: 1 RTI draft prepared and formatted as per the RTI Act, 2005 📄 Ideal for individuals seeking basic information or single-department queries |
| 🔵 📑 RTI + First Appeal Plan | Fee: ₹699/- 📅 Validity: 30 Days 🕒 Delivery: Within 4–6 hours ✍️ Includes: 1 RTI draft + 1 First Appeal draft if reply not received or unsatisfactory 📄 Ideal for complainants who want to pursue pending RTI replies |
| 🟣 🏛️ Comprehensive RTI Support Plan | Fee: ₹999/- 📅 Validity: 60 Days 🕒 Delivery: Within 6–8 hours ✍️ Includes: RTI + First Appeal + Second Appeal + follow-up advisory 📄 Best for victims and complainants seeking full RTI-based evidence & accountability |
✅ RTI Benefits
- Promotes transparency and accountability in public departments
- Helps you track FIRs, complaints, or application status
- Provides documentary evidence useful in complaints and court cases
- Strengthens consumer, cyber, or grievance petitions
- Enables victims to expose delays or negligence by public officials
📝 General Complaint + RTI Categories (for Fast-Tracking Cases)
🔹 1. Police & Law Enforcement
- FIR not registered/delayed
- No action on registered complaint
- Police misbehaviour/negligence
- Missing person report status
Fast Track via RTI:
- Ask reasons for refusal, a copy of the FIR, the investigation status, name of the investigating officer.
🔹 2. Cybercrime & Online Fraud
- Online financial fraud (UPI, credit card, bank)
- Social media harassment / fake profiles
- Identity theft/phishing scams
- Online blackmail/sextortion
Fast Track via RTI:
- Ask for complaint registration details, current status, officer assigned, and timeline of investigation.
🔹 3. Public Utility Services
- Electricity bill disputes/meter tampering
- Water supply/sewage issues
- Road repair/streetlight maintenance
- Municipal garbage collection is not done
Fast Track via RTI:
- Ask for fund allocation, work orders, contractor details, and action taken reports.
🔹 4. Land, Property & Revenue
- Delay in issuing land records/mutation
- Encroachment complaints ignored
- Wrong entries in land records
- Delay in registry verification
Fast Track via RTI:
- Ask for certified copies of land records, file movement, and reasons for delay.
🔹 5. Social Schemes & Welfare
- Delay in the ration card/pension/scholarship
- Non-receipt of DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer)
- PM Awas / Employment scheme irregularities
- Disability/widow pension not processed
Fast Track via RTI:
- Ask beneficiary list, the officer in charge, the fund allocation, and the reasons for rejection/delay.
🔹 6. Health & Education
- Non-availability of medicines in government hospitals
- Delay in medical negligence inquiry
- School admission/refusal cases
- University exam result delay
Fast Track via RTI:
- Ask stock details, inquiry status, reason for delay, official responsible.
⚖️ Why Effective?
👉 Complaint alone = may be ignored.
👉 Complaint + RTI = forces accountability → higher chances of fast-tracking case.
🌐 Where RTI Can Help Victims & Complainants
RTI is a powerful legal tool that helps you uncover truth, delays, and inaction in public systems.
It can support victims and citizens in the following ways:
| 🧭 Area | ⚖️ How RTI Helps |
|---|---|
| Cybercrime or Fraud Complaints | Track progress of FIRs or investigation at cyber cells. |
| Police Complaints | Obtain copy of FIR, investigation status, or reasons for non-action. |
| Consumer Complaints | Seek status of cases filed before District/State Consumer Commissions. |
| Government Offices | Request information on pending applications, delays, or departmental inaction. |
| Banking & Financial Scams | Obtain internal communication, complaint handling reports, or RBI reference numbers. |
| Municipal & Civic Matters | Get records about property tax, encroachments, or illegal constructions. |
| Employment / Pension Issues | Request file movement details and decisions on service-related claims. |
🎯 Key Benefits of Filing an RTI
- Promotes transparency and accountability in government departments
- Helps you collect documentary evidence for complaints or court matters
- Strengthens consumer, cybercrime, and public grievance cases
- Builds legal credibility through official government replies
- Can be used in court or tribunal proceedings as supporting evidence
⚠️ Note
- Helpful Foundation provides RTI drafting and advisory services only.
- Clients file RTIs themselves (online or by post).
- All drafts are prepared in official RTI format and customised to the user’s case.