IIT / NIT admission data — CIC

IIT/NIT admission records — cutoffs, branch-fill-up, seat-matrix — are public records disclosable under §4. IIT / NIT cutoffs, branch-filling & seat-matrix are. IIT / NIT cutoffs, branch-filling & seat-matrix are §4 proactive-disclosure material. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Central Information Commission | ^ Decided | 2020-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | Candidate / parent | ^ Respondent | IIT / NIT / CoE | ^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== IIT/NIT admission records — cutoffs, branch-fill-up, seat-matrix — are public records disclosable under §4. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Centrally-funded technical institutions are public authorities. Admission-related aggregate data — round-wise cutoffs, category-wise opening/closing ranks, branch filling, seat utilisation — is §4(1)(b) material. Individual candidate data is §8(1)(j) protected. ===== Keywords ===== IIT, NIT, admission, §4, CIC ===== 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. * IIT Delhi admission records — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2023) * NIT admission records — CIC (CIC 2021) * Medical college admissions — SC (SC 2019) * IIT faculty recruitment — CIC (CIC 2022) * Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan v. CIC (HC-DEL 2013) ===== Related ===== * All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §2 * All RTI cases turning on §4 * All RTI cases turning on §8 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated