19 December, 2011

Tale of Md Afzal, RTI Activist

Mohd Afzal, a Mumbai based RTI Activist, is a man who have never been encouraged or appreciated for his workings. People in our country are not very familiar with Md Afzal and his achievement towards our society.

Mohd Afzal was a well established man. He had a travel and tourism business. He was always ardent towards our society. He wanted to remove the tribulations that we people undergoing in our society. Thus he started taking up social causes in his spare time. He began his social service with Consumer guidance society of India. Afzal has been actively working as an RTI activist for proper implementation of the Right to Information Act since 2005. He raised his voice to eradicate obscenity from hoardings, print and electronic media.

Afzal has been a significant medium in discontinue pornography, Video clipping from being shown in iShare Internet with the help of Social service branch. He had also filed a lot of RTI queries on different social issues in Maharashtra.
On speaking to Md Afzal, he said, “I have been in the social service for the past 30 years and I strongly believe that we have some responsibility towards the country and the society at large. No religion encourages terrorism, what is required is we Indians should rationally. We should join hands with the government to see how we can progress so that India shines”.