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Coal India mining records — CIC

Coal India and subsidiaries are §2[h]; mining-lease records, environmental compliance, R&R records disclosable. Coal India = §2(h); mining lease + EIA compliance +.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Coal India mining records — CIC,Central Information Commission RTI,RTI §2,RTI §4,Coal India,CCL,mining,§2(h))&metatag-description=(Coal India and subsidiaries are §2[h]; mining-lease records, environmental compliance, R&R records disclosable. Coal India = §2(h); mining lease + EIA compliance +.)}}
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 +====== Coal India mining records — CIC ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Central Information Commission** · 2021-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
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 +**Coal India and subsidiaries are §2[h]; mining-lease records, environmental compliance, R&R records disclosable. Coal India = §2(h); mining lease + EIA compliance +.**
 +
 +//Coal India = §2(h); mining lease + EIA compliance + R&R records disclosable under §4(1)(b).//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2021-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Affected resident |
 +^ Respondent | Coal India |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h), §4(1)(b) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Coal India and subsidiaries are §2(h); mining-lease records, environmental compliance, R&R records disclosable.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries (CCL, SECL, MCL, NCL, WCL, ECL, BCCL) are public authorities under §2(h). Mining-lease area records, environmental-clearance compliance, and Rehabilitation & Resettlement records are §4(1)(b) material with high public-interest value.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +Coal India, CCL, mining, §2(h)
 +
 +===== 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/sic-goa-rti-mining-leases-2021|Mining leases & royalty records — Goa SIC]] (SIC-GA 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/sic-jharkhand-rti-mining-2022|Mining district-fund records — Jharkhand SIC]] (SIC-JH 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-environmental-clearances-rti-2020|Environmental clearances & EIA — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-environmental-clearance-granted-2020|Environmental clearance grant records — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-chhattisgarh-rti-mining-2021|Mineral concession records — Chhattisgarh HC]] (HC-CG 2021)
 +
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 +<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>
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 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
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 +{{tag>case-law court-cic section-2 section-4}}