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Charitable trusts receiving State grants — CIC

Charitable trusts receiving substantial State grants come within §2[h], following Thalappalam test. Trusts receiving substantial State financing are public.

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 +====== Charitable trusts receiving State grants — CIC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Central Information Commission** · 2017-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//Trusts receiving substantial State financing are public authorities under §2(h) — Thalappalam applied.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2017-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Charitable Trust |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Charitable trusts receiving substantial State grants come within §2(h), following Thalappalam test.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +A charitable trust receiving grant-in-aid, land allotment at concessional rates, or other substantial State benefits falls within §2(h) 'substantially financed' prong of the Thalappalam test.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +charitable trust, §2(h), substantial financing, CIC, Thalappalam
 +
 +===== This case cites =====
 +
 +  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
 +
 +===== Similar cases in the corpus =====
 +
 +//These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.//
 +
 +  * [[/cases/sc-section-2-h-ngo-receipt-2014|§2(h) applied to grant-receiving NGO]] (SC 2014)
 +  * [[/cases/dav-college-trust-v-director-2019-sc|D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society v. Director of Public Instructions]] (SC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-iota-v-harinder-dhingra-2013|Indian Olympic Association v. Harinder Dhingra]] (CIC 2013)
 +  * [[/cases/kerala-hc-cooperative-banks-rti-2017|Cooperative banks under RTI — Kerala HC]] (HC-KER 2017)
 +  * [[/cases/karnataka-hc-rti-2019-cooperative|Cooperative societies — Karnataka HC]] (HC-KAR 2019)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=CIC|All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=2|All RTI cases turning on §2]]
 +  * [[:cases:search|Full case-law search]]
 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
 +
 +<WRAP center round alert 95%>
 +**Editorial summary, not a certified report.** The ratio here is an editorial compression. Before citing this ruling in a PIO order, FAA speaking order, or any appellate filing, **verify against the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki is not a legal service.
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-cic section-2}}