The government has appointed four new Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission, which was functioning with just three of Commissioners as against a sanctioned strength of 11, including the Chief Information Commissioner.
President Ram Nath Kovind has approved the appointment of former IFS officer Yashwardhan Kumar Sinha, former IRS officer Vanaja N. Sarna, former IAS officer Neeraj Kumar Gupta and former Law Secretary Suresh Chandra as Information Commissioners in the CIC, a government order accessed by PTI said.
Mr. Sinha is a 1981-batch IFS officer and former High Commissioner of India in the United Kingdom. The only woman in the CIC, Ms. Sarna is a 1980-batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Excise) officer, who was the Chief of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).