Lokesh Batra 1971 war veteran- Flag Bearer of RTI Act

Aslam Bhai , President, Nagarik Adhikar Kendra, a Gujarat NGO
With the Panchayat getting the maximum number of visits by members of a village, the NAK hit upon the novel idea of painting the mandatory disclosures under RTI on the walls of the Panchayat building. While Section 4 (1) (b) of the Act lists 17 types of information which must be voluntarily disclosed by a public authority, this list is displayed on a department's website, inaccessible to the mass of villagers who usually have no access to a computer. In 2009 NAK put up a template on the walls of 22 village panchayats in Panchmahals district along with similar templates in the village ration shop, the nearest PHC, local government schools. When they did the same for 15 villages in neighbouring Dahod district, the district administration sat up and took note. 200 villages in Dahod district were then instructed to replicate the wall painting template and spread the RTI word.

Lokesh Batra, 1971 war veteran actively involved in taking up social issues
It is a full five years after the enactment of the RTI Act that all 37 passport offices in the country are in tune with it. A sustained campaign by Retd Commodore Batra ensured that they complied with Section 4 of the Act which lists the 17 types of information which every public authority must disclose. He is also in the middle of a campaign to ensure that Indians who travel abroad do not lose out on their RTI rights.

Indian citizens living abroad are unable to access information as per their right in the absence of procedure/rules to be framed by the government for payment of RTI fees in foreign currency. Retd Comm Batra, who stays in Noida, also led a spirited campaign at the time of the Nithari killings bringing out the failure of the authorities. His latest campaign involves an RTI application to the PMO and MoEF to formulate a Green Buildings Code for govt buildings.
Flag-bearers of RTI Act: The Economic Times