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Joining the forum is free and voluntary. Sign in and provide your details to become a member. Once you are member of the discussion forum, you will be added to the relevant stakeholder-group which, in fact, you would have selected from the following categories:

• Forum of Information Commissioners;
• Forum for Personnel of Information Commissions;
• Forum of Representatives of Nodal Departments;
• Forum for Representatives of Administrative Training Institutes.
• Open Forum. [The Open Forum, as the name suggests is open to all to register to be a member. The aforesaid specific-stakeholder-category fora shall be open only to persons belonging to these categories].

On this forum, one can share any relevant and related inputs on issues pertaining to RTI. Following are the thematic areas under which queries can be posted:

• Definitions & Concepts in RTI Act, 2005
• Roles and / or Responsibilities of Key Actors on the RTI implementation regime
• Key processes – applications, complaints and appeals.
• Exemptions – Information & Organisations

As a member of this Discussion Forum, you can share your experiences in as mentioned earlier. Information shared will be viewable by all the members of the Forum on which it has been posted. One can also access the discussion that has already taken place. Notes of the discussion shall be stored under the aforesaid specific themes.

One may also be able to receive regular alerts from the moderator on new queries and newly posted documents on the Portal as such.