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 +metatag-title=(D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society v. Director of)
 +metatag-keywords=(D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society v. Director of Public Instructions,Supreme Court of India RTI,RTI §2,§2(h),educational institutions,substantial financing,DAV)&metatag-description=(Non-government educational trusts receiving substantial government aid are 'public authorities' under §2[h]. Non-govt colleges receiving substantial State.)}}
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 +====== DAV College Trust v. Director: SC 2019 ======
 +
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 +{{ :social:auto:cases-dav-college-trust-v-director-2019-sc.png?direct&1200 |D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society v. Director of Public — RTI Wiki}}
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Quick Reply:** Non-government educational trusts receiving substantial government aid are 'public authorities' under §2[h]. Non-govt colleges receiving substantial State.
 +</WRAP>
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Supreme Court of India** · 2019-09-17 · (2019) 9 SCC 185 · **★ Landmark**
 +</WRAP>
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 +**Non-government educational trusts receiving substantial government aid are 'public authorities' under §2[h]. Non-govt colleges receiving substantial State.**
 +
 +//Non-govt colleges receiving substantial State financing fall within §2(h); must appoint PIOs.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
 +^ Decided | 2019-09-17 |
 +^ Citation | (2019) 9 SCC 185 |
 +^ Bench | L. Nageswara Rao, Deepak Gupta |
 +^ Petitioner | D.A.V. College Trust |
 +^ Respondent | Director of Public Instructions (Colleges) & Ors. |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h) |
 +^ Outcome | Rejected |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Non-government educational trusts receiving substantial government aid are 'public authorities' under §2(h).
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Educational institutions, including non-government colleges, that receive substantial government aid — measured against their overall operating budget — are 'public authorities' under §2(h) and must comply with the RTI Act.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +§2(h), educational institutions, substantial financing, DAV
 +
 +===== This case cites =====
 +
 +  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
 +
 +===== Later rulings that cite this case =====
 +
 +  * [[/cases/bombay-hc-private-school-rti-2019|Aided private schools under RTI — Bombay HC]] (HC-BOM 2019)
 +
 +===== 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/cic-charitable-trust-public-authority-2017|Charitable trusts receiving State grants — CIC]] (CIC 2017)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-section-2-h-ngo-receipt-2014|§2(h) applied to grant-receiving NGO]] (SC 2014)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
 +  * [[/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)
 +
 +===== Related =====
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 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=2|All RTI cases turning on §2]]
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 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
 +  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27459334/|External reported text →]]
 +
 +<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 ·
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 +{{tag>case-law court-sc section-2 landmark}}