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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Mineral concession records — Chhattisgarh HC,High Court of Chhattisgarh RTI,RTI §4,RTI §7,mining,Chhattisgarh HC,MMDR,§4)&metatag-description=(Mineral-concession grants, royalty returns and production records under MMDR Act are §4 disclosure material.)}}
 +
 +====== Mineral concession records — Chhattisgarh HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Chhattisgarh** · 2021-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//Mineral-concession + royalty records: §4(1)(b) proactive disclosure.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Chhattisgarh |
 +^ Decided | 2021-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Environmental researcher |
 +^ Respondent | Directorate of Geology & Mining |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Mineral-concession grants, royalty returns and production records under MMDR Act are §4 disclosure material.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Mineral concessions granted under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, royalty returns and production logs are public revenue records with significant environmental impact. §4(1)(b) mandates proactive publication on the State mining portal.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +mining, Chhattisgarh HC, MMDR, §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/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-rti-coal-india-mining-2021|Coal India mining records — CIC]] (CIC 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-environmental-clearances-rti-2020|Environmental clearances & EIA — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-foreign-contribution-ngo-returns-2019|FCRA returns of NGOs — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-CG|All High Court of Chhattisgarh rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[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]]
 +  * [[:cases:search|Full case-law search]]
 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[: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>
 +
 +~~NOCACHE~~
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-cg section-4 section-7}}
  
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