In 2004, he had quit by offering voluntarily retirement from work to focus on RTI campaign. People recognize him for activating the RTI movement at the grassroots, and empowering Bihar's poor citizens to fight corruption. Along with other social activists like Aruna Roy, Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and others Manishi came to be recognised as an important contributor to the campaign for a state and national-level Right to Information Act (enacted in 2005).[11][12]