Sudhir Bhargava Appointed as Chief Information Commissioner
The President of India administered the oath of office to Sudhir Bhargava as Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC), at a ceremony held Tuesday (January 1, 2019) at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Four Information Commissioners namely Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, Vanaja N Sarna, Neeraj Kumar Gupta, and Suresh Chandra were also administered the oath of office of the Information Commissioner, Central Information Commission (CIC) by the CIC Sudhir Bhargava.
With their induction, according to a government statement, the total number of Information Commissioners in the CIC including Chief Information Commissioner has gone up to 7.
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