National RTI Forum is an organization based in Lucknow

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

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The group gives “RTI Gallantry Award”s named after murdered RTI activists Satish Shetty

Satish Shetty

Satish Shetty, popularly known as Satish, was an Indian social activist, noted for exposing many land scams in Maharashtra. He had used the Right to Information Act to expose irregularities in Government offices in the last five years...

, Shashidhar Mishra

Shashidhar Mishra

Shashidhar Mishra was an Indian RTI activist, who was shot dead by unknown assailants by bullets near his house in Phulwaria Village, located near Begusarai town of Bihar. The incident took place on night on February 14, 2010....

 and Lalit Mehta

Lalit Mehta

Lalit Mehta was and Indian RTI activist, who was killed brutally near Palamau on May 14, 2008.He was a prominent member of The Right to Food Campaign, working in the Vikas Sahyog Kendra in Palamau District and was using his Right to information to expose scams in National Rural Employment...

. In 2010 the awards were given for the first time to a slain RTI activist Amit Jethwa

Amit Jethwa

Amit Jethwa was an Indian environmentalist and social worker, active in the Gir Forest area near Junagadh, Gujarat. He had filed several court cases against illegal mining in the protected area, naming Bharatiya Janata Party member of parliament, Dinu Solanki as one of the respondents...

, a forest officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi and an environmentalist Biswajit Mohanty.
The awards have no monetary value.