The APIC has introduced several innovative measures including ‘File Tracking System’, Status of Appeal through SMS, Video-Conferencing facility through which it could hear appeals and dispose of cases from across the state, Hussain said. Special Chief Secretary (General Administration Department) Minnie Mathew said the government has already directed the District Collectors and Superintendents of Police in the state to look into the cases of harassment of RTI activists, if any. "They have been asked to deal sternly against those indulged in harassment of RTI activists and also take preventive measures and to review such cases on a monthly basis," she said.