Literary Society, MNIT, Jaipur presents a talk by leading social activist Mr. Amitabh Thakur. Mr. Thakur would enlighten us all about Right To Information (or RTI as we better know it). Your graceful presence at this event is benignly solicited. ;)
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Hope to see you here !!
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About Mr. Amitabh Thakur
Exuding confidence while at the same time maintaining a child like curiosity, he leaves his mark through his inquisitiveness & witty remarks. Meet Mr. Amitabh Thakur, a very well known Social-Activist.
An officer of the 1992 batch of UP Cadre in the Indian Police Service, he is a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur after which he joined the IPS. He has been SP of nearly 10 districts in UP and has also served at other important places like Vigilance, Intelligence, Special Enquiry, CB-CID and Police Academy, Moradabad. Presently he has taken study leave to undertake Fellow Program in Management (FPM) in Human Resource Management since 2009. This followed a controversy in which his request for a leave was denied by the government in Uttar Pradesh. Recently even the Allahabad High Court ordered in his favor but the matter is still being kept pending.
Other than this, Mr. Thakur is also actively involved with social work. He is the Founder and President of the National RTI Forum, a grassroots anti-corruption organization in India that advocates for government openness under the terms of the 2005 Right to Information Act. The organization is based in Lucknow. He is the President of another social organizations IRDS and is also the Patron of Indian Public Academy, a school providing free education to needy children.
Till now his three books, Jaisa Maine Jaana Hai (Hindi poems), Dhal Gayi Raat (Hindi short stories) and Fresh Brew- Chronicles of Business and Freedom (co-authored with Amit Haralalka, an IIM Lucknow student) have been published. The Fresh Brew contains inspiring life stories of twenty five IIM Lucknow Alumni who followed their hearts, their dreams and their passions. Recently he has taken up the project of writing one book each in Hindi and English based on his inputs from the social networking site Facebook, which is underway.
His filing of FIR against Facebook Inc. and others for use of abusive language against Mahatma Gandhi has been widely appreciated in India, following which the Facebook group was banned.