{"id":141542,"date":"2020-11-08T00:56:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=141542"},"modified":"2020-11-08T00:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T19:26:29","slug":"yashvardhan-kumar-sinha-is-new-cic-three-information-commissioners-join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/yashvardhan-kumar-sinha-is-new-cic-three-information-commissioners-join\/","title":{"rendered":"Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha is new CIC, three information commissioners join"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Nov 7:<\/strong> Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was appointed as the chief information commissioner (CIC) on Saturday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Sinha as the CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sinha, a former diplomat, joined as the information commissioner on 1 January, 2019. He has served as India&#8217;s high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sinha, aged 62, will have a tenure of about three years as the CIC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A CIC and information commissioner are appointed for a tenure of five years or till they attain the age of 65 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, Sinha administered the oath of office to journalist Uday Mahurkar, former labour secretary Heera Lal Samariya and former deputy comptroller and auditor general Saroj Punhani as information commissioners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the induction of Mahurkar, Samariya and Punhani, the strength of the information commissioner has gone up to seven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vanaja N Sarna, Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Suresh Chandra and Amita Pandove are the other information commissioners in the Central Information Commission. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 7: Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was appointed as the chief information commissioner (CIC) on Saturday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Sinha as the CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, it said. Sinha, a former diplomat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}