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Ministry meetings with trade bodies [CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM] — meeting minutes and consultation records — are §4 material.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Trade-body interactions with government — CIC,Central Information Commission RTI,RTI §4,RTI §7,RTI §8,CII,FICCI,consultation,§4)&metatag-description=(Ministry meetings with trade bodies [CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM] — meeting minutes and consultation records — are §4 material.)}}
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 +====== Trade-body interactions with government — CIC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Central Information Commission** · 2019-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//Government-trade-body consultations (CII/FICCI meetings): §4(1)(b) disclosure of minutes + consultation records.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2019-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Researcher |
 +^ Respondent | Ministry of Commerce |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Ministry meetings with trade bodies (CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM) — meeting minutes and consultation records — are §4 material.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Records of government consultations with trade bodies — Confederation of Indian Industry, FICCI, ASSOCHAM — are records of the public authority's functioning. §4(1)(b)(iii) and (iv) require proactive disclosure of meeting minutes, policy-consultation records, and industry-representation memoranda.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +CII, FICCI, consultation, §4
 +
 +===== 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/delhi-hc-rti-minutes-2019|Meeting minutes of statutory bodies — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-whitepaper-government-2020|Government white paper / discussion drafts — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-gst-council-public-authority-2019|GST Council — public authority status (CIC)]] (CIC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-section-11-timeline-2011|§11 40-day total timeline — CIC directive]] (CIC 2011)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-university-appointments-2020|University appointment records — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2020)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
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 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=4|All RTI cases turning on §4]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=7|All RTI cases turning on §7]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
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 +  * [[: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-4 section-7 section-8}}