The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, an organization of workers and farmers in Rajasthan, was founded on May 1, 1990, at a rally of 1,000 people from 27 villages. It held jan sunwais, public hearings, where official documents were obtained and read aloud.
In September 1995 a meeting in Beawar made the first public demand for a legal right to information. Rajasthan passed a right to information law in 2000. The campaign “culminated in the enactment of the RTI Act in 2005.”