[2] On 14 December 2002, Parivartan organised a jan sunvai (public hearing) in Sundar Nagari, to examine the work of MCD's Engineering Department.
[9] In February 2003, the citizens of Sundar Nagari found that the MCD workers laying out a street were using poor quality sand and less cement than required.
[2] In February 2002, a poor widow named Triveni had approached Parivartan, with the complaint that the ration shops were always out of stock whenever she needed subsidised foodgrains offered under PDS.
However, a group of 17 ration shop dealers approached the Delhi High Court, and obtained a stay against Parivartan's attempts to access 'private' records.
[7][8] In 2008, the computerisation of PDS records by the Food and Civil Supplies Department exposed a massive scam centered on duplicate ration cards.
Parivartan estimated that in the past four years, the state had suffered a loss of ₹ 259.5 crore owing to diversion of subsidized food grains on the basis of bogus ration cards.
[12] In November 2004, Parivartan used RTI applications to access communication between government agencies and the World Bank, regarding a project for privatisation of water supply.
[13] Another campaign by Parivartan led to a court order that required private schools, which had received public land at discounted prices, to admit more than 700 poor kids without fee.
The award recognised him for activating the RTI movement at the grassroots, and empowering New Delhi's poor citizens to fight corruption.
Sundar Nagri, where the movement was concentrated, suffered from irregular water supply, unreliable PDS system and poorly done public works.
The organisation at that time had two paid workers, one of whom, Santosh Koli, later died in a road incident not long after being selected as an election candidate by Aam Aadmi Party.
[15][16] These people were paid by the Public Cause Research Foundation, which had been founded by Kejriwal in 2006 using money that he received from the Ramon Magsaysay Award.