Local-body corporator fund utilisation records are proactively disclosable under §4[1][b]. Corporator / councillor fund utilisation is proactive-disclosure. Corporator / councillor fund utilisation is proactive-disclosure material under §4(1)(b). ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Maharashtra State Information Commission | ^ Decided | 2019-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | Municipal Corporation | ^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== Local-body corporator fund utilisation records are proactively disclosable under §4(1)(b). ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Funds allocated to corporators, councillors, and MPs for local development are public monies. Their utilisation records fall within the mandatory disclosure categories under §4(1)(b) and must be published suo motu. ===== Keywords ===== corporator, local body, §4(1)(b), Maharashtra SIC, development funds ===== 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. * Assembly proceedings and constituency-fund records — Manipur HC (HC-MN 2021) * Mining district-fund records — Jharkhand SIC (SIC-JH 2022) * Tribal welfare fund records — Chhattisgarh SIC (SIC-CG 2022) * MP salary + allowances — CIC (CIC 2020) * Village panchayat accounts — Rajasthan HC (HC-RAJ 2018) ===== Related ===== * All Maharashtra State Information Commission 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

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