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Mining leases & royalty records — Goa SIC

Mining lease details, royalty returns, environmental-compliance status are §4 disclosure material. Mining leases + royalty returns are §4(1)(b) public-interest.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Mining leases & royalty records — Goa SIC,Goa State Information Commission RTI,RTI §4,RTI §7,mining,Goa SIC,§4(1)(b),royalty)&metatag-description=(Mining lease details, royalty returns, environmental-compliance status are §4 disclosure material. Mining leases + royalty returns are §4(1)(b) public-interest.)}}
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 +====== Mining leases & royalty records — Goa SIC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Goa State Information Commission** · 2021-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//Mining leases + royalty returns are §4(1)(b) public-interest records — must be proactively disclosed.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Goa State Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2021-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Environmental activist / RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Mines & Geology Dept |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Mining lease details, royalty returns, environmental-compliance status are §4 disclosure material.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Mining leases, royalty returns, lease-period, area-details, environmental-compliance status and mining-plan documents are records carrying significant public interest (revenue, environment, land). §4(1)(b) requires proactive disclosure on the state-department portal.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +mining, Goa SIC, §4(1)(b), royalty
 +
 +===== 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/hc-chhattisgarh-rti-mining-2021|Mineral concession records — Chhattisgarh HC]] (HC-CG 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-coal-india-mining-2021|Coal India mining records — CIC]] (CIC 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/sic-jharkhand-rti-mining-2022|Mining district-fund records — Jharkhand SIC]] (SIC-JH 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-sikkim-rti-tourism-project-2020|Tourism project records — Sikkim HC]] (HC-SK 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-environmental-clearances-rti-2020|Environmental clearances & EIA — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=SIC-GA|All Goa State Information Commission 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>
 +
 +
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-sic-ga section-4 section-7}}