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RTI application: your city’s ABC programme (template)

RTI application: your city’s ABC programme (template)

An RTI template asking your municipal body for data on its Animal Birth Control and anti-rabies programme.

Sign it, then post it by Speed Post.

Use this Right to Information (RTI) application to ask your municipal corporation or council how its Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme is run. Send it by post with the fee, or file it online if your state has an RTI portal.

To,
The Public Information Officer,
[Municipal corporation / council name]
[Address]

Application under Section 6(1) of the Right to Information Act, 2005

1. Name of applicant: [your name]
2. Address: [your address]
3. Information requested, for the period [from date] to [to date]:
   a) Number of dogs sterilised and vaccinated against rabies under the Animal Birth Control programme, month by month.
   b) Names of the agencies or organisations carrying out the programme, and copies of their agreements.
   c) Amount budgeted and spent on the programme.
   d) Location of each ABC centre, and the number of dogs it can hold.
   e) Copies of the monitoring committee's meeting minutes for the programme.
4. Fee: Rs 10 paid by [postal order / court fee stamp / online payment, details].
5. I am / am not a Below Poverty Line card holder.

Date: [DD/MM/YYYY]
Signature: [your signature]

The information must be given within 30 days. If it isn’t, you can file a first appeal with the First Appellate Authority of the same office.