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CIC Asks PMO to Explain Delays in Hiring of Information Commissioners -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

-TheWire.in

The number of vacancies in the Central Information Commission is set to reach the all-time high of four.

New Delhi:
The number of vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) is set to rise to the highest ever – four – on January 15, with information commissioner Manjula Prasher retiring that day. Chief information commissioner R.K. Mathur has directed the Prime Minister’s Office to reveal information on the reasons behind the delay in appointments to the commission.

The order assumes significance as the 11-member commission will be left with just seven serving commissioners, including Mathur, if urgent appointments are not made. Already, the panel is witnessing a huge pendency of cases as the workload on serving information commissioners has increased.

In this case, the appellant, Commodore (retd) Lokesh K. Batra, had contended that he had filed an RTI application with the PMO on September 11, 2017 seeking information regarding the list of files using which appointments to the CIC were being processed. He had also sought the names and designations of members of the screening committee.

The matter reached the commission on November 11,  as Batra was not satisfied with the response he received from the authorities. The commission heard the matter on January 8, and the appellant and the respondents participated in person.

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