About PCRF
Public Cause Research Foundation (PCRF) instituted the RTI Awards 2009. The Foundation was set up on the 19th of December, 2006 by Magsaysay Awardee Shri Arvind Kejirwal, Former Journalist Manish Sisodia and TV producer and writer Abhinandan Sekhri to ensure that our society becomes more inclusive and that real power rests with the common citizens of India.
To this end, Mr Kejriwal donated the prize money of his Magsaysay award as corpus fund to PCRF. The Foundation works to collect, research, analyse, and disseminate information about various aspects of governance to ensure that rules and laws are enacted and enforced and policies implemented. For this, PCRF uses the RTI Act extensively and promotes awareness of the act.
The Foundation is presently working in three areas.
- Litigation: The Foundation takes up litigation in those cases where the outcome could lead to setting up of some basic principles in implementation of RTI.
- RTI Awareness: The Foundation aims to popularize the RTI Act through various campaigns and projects.
- Local Self-governance: The Foundation is working towards strengthening local self governance (Gram Sabha in villages and Mohalla Sabhas in urban areas), to enable people’s participation in day to day governance of their areas. http://www.lokrajandolan.org