Chief information commissioner of india

Highlights • The appointments have set up a new political flashpoint • Panel headed by PM selects members to top RTI watchdog • Rashtrapati Bhavan is expected to issue a notification soon, sources said New Delhi: The government's decision to appoint new Information Commissioners opposed by the Congress in a dissent note has set up a new political flashpoint. Retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha is all set to become the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India, government sources have told NDTV. Journalist Uday Mahurkar is likely to be named an Information Commissioner, they said, adding that the official process towards these appointments has been initiated. Rashtrapati Bhavan is expected to issue a notification soon, the sources said, following which a Gazette Notification will be published by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) announcing the appointments. A panel headed by the Prime Minister selects members to the top Right to Information (RTI) watchdog. YK Sinha, a former High Commissioner to UK and Sri Lanka, is expected to have a tenure till October 2023. He is now one of the five Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission, the top RTI body. The Congress party has expressed its dissent over what it calls the "skydropping" of Uday Mahurkar. Party sources said they were "appalled" that the selection committee had not given any basis for why these particular candidates were short-listed out of the...

Former diplomat and Central Information Commissioner Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha is tipped to be appointed as the country’s next Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), two months after the position at the top transparency watchdog fell vacant, sources said on Thursday. The decision was taken after an October 24 meeting of the high-powered selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, Congress Leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is also a member of the panel, is learnt to have submitted a dissent note. Also read | The Opposition leader objected to the manner in which the shortlisting process was carried out, alleging a failure to follow the Mr. Sinha is a retired officer of the Indian Foreign Service and has previously served as India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and to Sri Lanka. He was appointed as a member of the Central Information Commission in January 2019. The Commission is the highest appellate authority under the Right to Information Act, and consists of a Chief and up to ten Commissioners. It has been headless twice this year, due to a two month delay in appointing the last chief Bimal Julka, and another two month period since he retired at the end of August. It has not functioned at full strength for almost four years, and currently has only five Commissioners, leading to a backlog of almost 37,000 pending cases. Also read | When the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) issued advertisements for the vacancies in J...

• Website .cic .gov .in The Central Information Commission is a statutory body, The commission includes one chief information commissioner and not more than ten information commissioners who are appointed by the Chief Information Commissioners [ ] The following have held the post of the chief Information Commissioners. List of Central information Commissioners No. Name Took office Left office 1 26 October 2005 19 September 2010 2 30 September 2010 18 December 2010 3 19 December 2010 4 September 2013 4 5 September 2013 18 December 2013 5 19 December 2013 21 May 2014 6 22 May 2014 22 August 2014 7 10 June 2015 1 December 2015 8 4 January 2016 24 November 2018 9 1 January 2019 11 January 2020 10 6 March 2020 26 August 2020 11 31 October 2020 Till Now State Information Commission [ ] Following is the list of State Information Commissions. Rank State States Information commission 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 22 22 22 23 24 25 25 References [ ] • Central Information Commission . Retrieved 10 January 2018. • (PDF). Central Information Commission. p.23 . Retrieved 10 January 2018. • • (PDF). p.14. Archived from (PDF) on 21 January 2011 . Retrieved 18 February 2013. • Central Information Commission, Government of India. Primary source. Central Information Commission, Government of India. Archived from . Retrieved 24 April 2011. •