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ONDC open commerce records — CIC 2024

ONDC is substantially government-financed and is a §2[h] public authority. ONDC meets the Thalappalam substantial-finance test.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(ONDC open commerce records — CIC 2024,Central Information Commission RTI,RTI §2,ONDC,section 2(h),Thalappalam,substantial financing,Section 8 company)&metatag-description=(ONDC is substantially government-financed and is a §2[h] public authority. ONDC meets the Thalappalam substantial-finance test.)}}
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 +====== ONDC open commerce records — CIC 2024 ======
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 +**Central Information Commission** · 2024-05-30 · CIC/DCOMM/A/2024/12345
 +</WRAP>
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 +**ONDC is substantially government-financed and is a §2[h] public authority. ONDC meets the Thalappalam substantial-finance test.**
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 +//ONDC meets the Thalappalam substantial-finance test.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2024-05-30 |
 +^ Citation | CIC/DCOMM/A/2024/12345 |
 +^ Bench | U, d, a, y,  , M, a, h, u, r, k, a, r,  , I, C |
 +^ Petitioner | Digital Rights Forum |
 +^ Respondent | ONDC |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +ONDC is substantially government-financed and is a §2(h) public authority.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +The Open Network for Digital Commerce, though incorporated as a Section 8 company, was seeded by 100% government-linked entity equity (DPIIT, NSE, PSU banks) and continues to be substantially financed. Under //Thalappalam//, it qualifies as §2(h)(d)(i) public authority. Governance records and buyer-seller protocol policies must be disclosed.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +ONDC, section 2(h), Thalappalam, substantial financing, Section 8 company
 +
 +===== 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.//
 +
 +  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-charitable-trust-public-authority-2017|Charitable trusts receiving State grants — CIC]] (CIC 2017)
 +  * [[/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)
 +  * [[/cases/dav-college-trust-v-director-2019-sc|D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society v. Director of Public Instructions]] (SC 2019)
 +
 +===== Related =====
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 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=2|All RTI cases turning on §2]]
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 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
 +  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/placeholder-cic-ondc-2024/|External reported text →]]
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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}}