New Delhi, December 15: Former IAS officer Raj Kumar Goyal was on Monday sworn in as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) by President Droupadi Murmu.
President Murmu administered the ‘Oath of Office’ to Goyal as the CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The event was attended by Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, among others.
The post of CIC fell vacant after Heeralal Samariya completed his term on September 13.
A three-member panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week recommended Goyal's name as the CIC.
Goyal is a 1990-batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. He superannuated as Secretary, Department of Justice under the Ministry of Law and Justice, on August 31.
The panel, headed by PM Modi, has also recommended the names of eight Information Commissioners during a meeting held on Wednesday.
Former Railway Board chief Jaya Verma Sinha, former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Swagat Das, the then Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer Sanjeev Kumar Jindal, former IAS officer Surendra Singh Meena and ex-Indian Forest Service officer Khushwant Singh Sethi have been recommended for appointment as Information Commissioners, officials said.
Senior journalists P R Ramesh and Ashutosh Chaturvedi, and Sudha Rani Relangi, Member (Legal), Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) have also been selected by the panel for appointment as information commissioners, they added.
The Commission will be in its full strength, after a gap of over nine years, once the newly selected CIC and ICs join.
