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Sudhir Bhargava appointed as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)
New Delhi : Central government has appointed Sudhir Bhargava as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), along with four information commissioners, all of whom were bureaucrats, in the Central Information Commission.
Sudhir Bhargava was Information Commissioner in the CIC. The panel was functioning with three members against the sanctioned strength of 11, including the Chief Information Commissioner.
President Ram Nath Kovind has approved the appointment of former IFS officer Yashwardhan Kumar Sinha, ex-IRS officer Vanaja N. Sarna, former IAS Neeraj Kumar Gupta and former law secretary Suresh Chandra as information commissioners in the panel, a government order, accessed by media, said.
Mr. Sinha is a 1981-batch Indian Foreign Service officer who was the High Commissioner of India in the United Kingdom.
An alumnus of St Michael’s High School in Patna and St Stephen’s College in Delhi, Mr. Sinha had served a number of important postings in the Ministry of External Affairs including the crucial Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran Division, which he headed for four years as additional secretary.
The only woman in the CIC will be Ms. Sarna, a 1980-batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Excise) officer, who was the chief of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).
Neeraj Kumar Gupta, a 1982-batch IAS officer, was secretary in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, while Mr. Chandra was an Indian Legal Service officer, who retired as Union law secretary this year.
Between 2002 and 2004, Chandra was the private secretary to then law minister Arun Jaitley. All the bureaucrats appointed by the government have retired this year.
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