PDF
RTI Application Template
A blank application with the required fields laid out and guidance notes on framing a question that asks for a record rather than an opinion.
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu
- Revised
- Revised 2 May 2026
Downloads
Nobody should have to pay someone to fill in a form
Templates we use at our own desks, published so that nobody has to pay anyone to fill in a form. All of these are free, may be reproduced, and are revised when the underlying rules change.
Templates
8 files across 6 categories
Each carries the date it was last revised. Where a file is still being prepared, the card says so and offers a way to ask for it rather than a button that goes nowhere.
RTI
2 filesPDF
RTI First Appeal Template
For use when an application is refused or goes unanswered past thirty days. Includes the grounds most commonly available and the timeline to observe.
- Languages
- English, Telugu
- Revised
- Revised 2 May 2026
Grievances
1 filePDF
Grievance Intake Format
The form our own desk uses: what happened, when, which office, what was asked for, what was produced. Filling it in before you come saves the first half of the conversation.
- Languages
- English, Telugu, Urdu
- Revised
- Revised 19 January 2026
Rights literacy
2 filesPDF
Rights At The Station — Wallet Card
Print two-up on a single sheet and fold. The guarantees that attach on detention or on being called to a police station.
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu
- Revised
- Revised 30 September 2025
PDF
Know Before You Sign — Leaflet
One page on the right to read a document, the right to have it read aloud, and the right to refuse to sign a blank.
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu
- Revised
- Revised 8 November 2025
Documentation
1 filePDF
Consent And Confidentiality Form
The consent we take before an account enters the documentation register, including what may and may not be published and how consent is withdrawn.
- Languages
- English, Telugu, Urdu
- Revised
- Revised 8 March 2026
Welfare
1 filePDF
Welfare Document Checklist
What to carry for the entitlements our desk is asked about most, and the statutory timeline that starts once the application is in.
- Languages
- English, Telugu
- Revised
- Revised 11 June 2026
Media
1 fileZIP
Logo And Usage Note
The ACHRC mark in the permitted formats, with the clear-space rule and a note on what use does not imply endorsement.
- Languages
- English
- Revised
- Revised 1 February 2026
Using these templates
A template is a starting point, not a substitute for thinking about your own facts. An RTI application copied without adjusting the question will be refused as cleanly as one written badly from scratch. If you want help adapting one, the clinic exists for exactly that.
RTI assistanceCopy them freely
Print them, translate them, put your own organisation’s name on the covering note. We ask only that the passages setting out limits are carried across intact — they are the parts most often dropped, and the parts that protect the person using the form.
Work with usSomething missing
If there is a form you keep needing and we do not have it, say so
Most of what is on this page exists because somebody asked for it at a desk and we realised we were explaining the same thing every week.