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Panchayat income and expenditure accounts are §4 proactive-disclosure material. Gram Panchayat accounts are public-money records; §4(1)(b) requires proactive.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Village panchayat accounts — Rajasthan HC,High Court of Rajasthan RTI,RTI §4,RTI §7,panchayat,Rajasthan HC,§4(1)(b),local body accounts)&metatag-description=(Panchayat income and expenditure accounts are §4 proactive-disclosure material. Gram Panchayat accounts are public-money records; §4(1)(b) requires proactive.)}}
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 +====== Village panchayat accounts — Rajasthan HC ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Rajasthan** · 2018-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
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 +**Panchayat income and expenditure accounts are §4 proactive-disclosure material. Gram Panchayat accounts are public-money records; §4(1)(b) requires proactive.**
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 +//Gram Panchayat accounts are public-money records; §4(1)(b) requires proactive disclosure.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Rajasthan |
 +^ Decided | 2018-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Village resident / RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Gram Panchayat |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Panchayat income and expenditure accounts are §4 proactive-disclosure material.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Gram Panchayat income-expenditure accounts, development-scheme utilisation, and works register are records of public monies entrusted to local bodies. §4(1)(b) mandates their proactive disclosure, including display at the Panchayat office.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +panchayat, Rajasthan HC, §4(1)(b), local body accounts
 +
 +===== 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-odisha-rti-village-works-2020|Village-level works & MGNREGS — Odisha SIC]] (SIC-OR 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/sic-maharashtra-corporator-records-2019|Corporator funds utilisation — Maharashtra SIC]] (SIC-MH 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-judicial-academies-2020|Judicial Academies under RTI — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-delhi-rti-sfi-mgnregs-audit-2023|MGNREGS social audit — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2023)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-csr-records-2021|CSR expenditure records — CIC]] (CIC 2021)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-RAJ|All High Court of Rajasthan 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>
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 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
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 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-raj section-4 section-7}}