Ex-bureaucrat Raj Kumar Goyal to take oath as CIC; 8 new Information Commissioners selected

Ex-bureaucrat Raj Kumar Goyal to take oath as CIC; 8 new Information Commissioners selected

New Delhi, Dec 13 (PTI) Former IAS officer Raj Kumar Goyal will be sworn in as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday, officials said. A three-member panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recommended Goyal's name, they said on Saturday. Goyal is a 1990-batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. He superannuated as Sec…

Former Law Secretary Raj Kumar Goyal Appointed As Chief Information Commissioner

New Delhi, Dec 13: Former Law Secretary Raj Kumar Goyal has been appointed as the head of the Central Information Commission while eight others, most of them former civil servants, were chosen as Information Commissioners. With this, the 11-member Central Information Commission (CIC) acquired full strength for the first time in the past seven years. The central transparency panel has been headless since September and has been working with just t…

Senior Journalists PR Ramesh and Ashutosh Chaturvedi Appointed Information Commissioners in Central Information Commission

Two senior and respected figures from Indian journalism, PR Ramesh, Editor of Open Magazine, and Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Editor of Prabhat Khabar, have been appointed as Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission (CIC). Both appointees bring decades of experience in media, public affairs, and democratic discourse. Their appointment is being seen as a significant step, as professionals with deep understanding of transparency, go…