Honour for 17-year-old RTI activist

NEW DELHI: Himadrish Suwan took the Ranchi Rajdhani from Delhi to Ranchi every summer and noticed it was the only Rajdhani still using the old ICF coaches. "They were horrible. The washrooms etc. were in bad condition. The Ranchi-New Delhi was the only one that didn't have the new LHB (Linke Holfmann Busch) coaches which are also safer as they don't flip on collision," said Suwan.

At 15 and still in school, he filed an RTI query asking the Indian Railways who will be responsible in case of an accident and what they mean to do with the coaches. "I filed the RTI in April 2012. They replied they are planning to change the coaches and on the Bokaro route, they have," he said.

About a 100 RTIs later, Suwan, now 17 and a political science student at Shahid Bhagat Singh College, has been conferred the Young Achiever's Award—an international one—by The International Association of Educators for World Peace on recommendation of Confederation of Indian Universities.

He stays near Saket and the traffic condition prompted him to file an RTI with the Delhi Police. "Two policemen were deployed and barricades were put up," he said. Then last year, he filed one for the Prime Minister's office asking how many speeches the former PM had made since 2004. "I got a funny reply. They said 1,300 times and sent me the full list of dates and times. They even included single-line replies to media queries in the list of speeches," recalled Suwan.

He also inquired from the Central Board of Secondary Education about the availability of infrastructure—especially computers—for the implementation of continuous comprehensive evaluation. "You need computers for all these projects which is okay for urban locations but what about rural areas?" he asked. Suwan graduated from Amity International School, Saket.

Once he graduates from Delhi University, Suwan plans to study law. "I want to be a judge," he said.

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