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NGO receiving substantial government grant is a 'public authority' under §2[h]; trivial / one-time grants do not trigger coverage.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(§2(h) applied to grant-receiving NGO,Supreme Court of India RTI,RTI §2,NGO,§2(h),substantial financing,Thalappalam applied)&metatag-description=(NGO receiving substantial government grant is a 'public authority' under §2[h]; trivial / one-time grants do not trigger coverage.)}}
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 +====== §2(h) applied to grant-receiving NGO ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Supreme Court of India** · 2014-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
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 +**NGO receiving substantial government grant is a 'public authority' under §2[h]; trivial / one-time grants do not trigger coverage.**
 +
 +//NGO with substantial continuing State grants: §2(h). One-time or trivial grants: NO §2(h) coverage.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
 +^ Decided | 2014-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Grant-receiving NGO |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h) |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +NGO receiving substantial government grant is a 'public authority' under §2(h); trivial / one-time grants do not trigger coverage.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Applying Thalappalam, an NGO that receives substantial and continuing State financing — measured against its total operating budget and the character of the funding — falls within §2(h). Trivial, one-time or project-specific grants do not bring an otherwise-private NGO into the definition.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +NGO, §2(h), substantial financing, Thalappalam applied
 +
 +===== 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/cic-iota-v-harinder-dhingra-2013|Indian Olympic Association v. Harinder Dhingra]] (CIC 2013)
 +  * [[/cases/dav-college-trust-v-director-2019-sc|D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society v. Director of Public Instructions]] (SC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-bombay-rti-ngo-fcra-compliance-2021|NGO FCRA-compliance scrutiny — Bombay HC]] (HC-BOM 2021)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
 +
 +===== Related =====
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 +  * [[: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>
 +
 +
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-sc section-2}}