MGNREGS social audit — Delhi HC

Quick Reply: MGNREGS social-audit reports, by village / block / district, must be §4[1][b][xii] proactive-disclosure. MGNREGS social-audit reports at village/block/district. </WRAP>

MGNREGS social-audit reports at village/block/district level: §4(1)(b)(xii) proactive disclosure. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | High Court of Delhi | ^ Decided | 2023-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | Activist organisation | ^ Respondent | Rural Development Ministry | ^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b)(xii) | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== MGNREGS social-audit reports, by village / block / district, must be §4(1)(b)(xii) proactive-disclosure. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme social-audit reports, prepared at Gram Sabha and block levels, are accountability records. §4(1)(b)(xii) requires these to be proactively published on the MGNREGS portal and at the panchayat office — not merely filed in-house. ===== Keywords ===== MGNREGS, social audit, Delhi HC, §4(1)(b)(xii) ===== 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. * Village-level works & MGNREGS — Odisha SIC (SIC-OR 2020) * MGNREGS beneficiary lists — Kerala HC (HC-KER 2020) * PM schemes beneficiary & utilisation — CIC (CIC 2024) * PMAY-G rural-housing records — MP HC (HC-MP 2022) * PDS scheme records — Jharkhand HC (HC-JH 2021) ===== Related ===== * All High Court of Delhi rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §4 * All RTI cases turning on §7 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.