Central Information Commission

{{Short description|Statutory body in India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use Indian English|date=January 2018}}

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The '''Central Information Commission''' is a statutory body,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cic.gov.in/introduction | title=Introduction | Central Information Commission }}</ref> set up under the Right to Information Act in 2005<ref name="CIC Annual Report 2005-06">{{cite web|title=CIC Annual Report 2005-06|url=http://www.cic.gov.in/AnnualReports/AR-200506/MainReport.pdf|access-date=18 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121093716/http://cic.gov.in/AnnualReports/AR-200506/MainReport.pdf|archive-date=21 January 2011|page=14}}</ref> under the Government of India to act upon complaints from those individuals who have not been able to submit information requests to a Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer due to either the officer not have been appointed, or because the respective Central Assistant Public Information Officer or State Assistant Public Information Officer refused to receive the application for information under the Right to Information Act.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://cic.gov.in/index.html| title=Powers and functions of the information commissions| access-date=24 April 2011| author=Central Information Commission, Government of India| work=Primary source| publisher=Central Information Commission, Government of India| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303143717/http://cic.gov.in/index.html| archive-date=3 March 2011| url-status=dead}}</ref>

The commission includes one chief information commissioner and not more than ten information commissioners who are appointed by the President of India on the recommendation of a committee consisting of the Prime Minister as chairperson, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and a Union Cabinet Minister to be nominated by the Prime Minister. Two women have been chief information commissioners: Deepak Sandhu (fourth chief information commissioner overall) and Sushma Singh (fifth overall). The oath to CIC is administered by President of India.

==Chief Information Commissioners== The following have held the post of the chief Information Commissioners.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cic.gov.in/former-cic-and-ic | title=Former Chief ICs | Central Information Commission }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" |+ List of Central information Commissioners |- ! No. ! Name ! Took office ! Left office |- |1 |Wajahat Habibullah |{{dts|format=dmy|2005|10|26}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2010|9|19}} |- |2 |A. N. Tiwari |{{dts|format=dmy|2010|9|30}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2010|12|18}} |- |3 |Satyananda Mishra |{{dts|format=dmy|2010|12|19}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2013|09|4}} |- |4 |Deepak Sandhu |{{dts|format=dmy|2013|09|5}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2013|12|18}} |- |5 |Sushma Singh |{{dts|format=dmy|2013|12|19}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2014|5|21}} |- |6 |Rajiv Mathur |{{dts|format=dmy|2014|5|22}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2014|8|22}} |- |7 |Vijai Sharma |{{dts|format=dmy|2015|6|10}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2015|12|1}} |- |8 |Radha Krishna Mathur |{{dts|format=dmy|2016|01|4}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2018|11|24}} |- |9 |Sudhir Bhargava |{{dts|format=dmy|2019|01|1}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2020|1|11}} |- |10 |Bimal Julka |{{dts|format=dmy|2020|03|6}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2020|8|26}} |- |11 |Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha |{{dts|format=dmy|2020|11|7}} |{{dts|format=dmy|2023|10|3}} |- |12 |Heeralal Samariya<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-06 |title=Heeralal Samariya appointed as chief information commissioner |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/heeralal-samariya-appointed-as-chief-information-commissioner-101699260619504.html |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref> | 6 November 2023 | 13 September 2025 |- |13 |Raj Kumar Goyal<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chief Information Commissioner Post: Raj Kumar Goyal Likely Pick |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/former-law-secretary-raj-kumar-goyal-appointed-as-chief-information-commissioner-3829880 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251214015737/https://www.deccanherald.com/india/former-law-secretary-raj-kumar-goyal-appointed-as-chief-information-commissioner-3829880 |archive-date=2025-12-14 |access-date=2025-12-14 |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}</ref> |15 December 2025 | - |}

==Current Information Commissioners== {|class="wikitable" ! # !! Name !! Designation !! From !! To |- | 1 || '''Raj Kumar Goyal, IAS''' || '''Chief Information Commissioner''' || || |- | 2 || Anandi Ramalingam, IFoS || rowspan=10| Informationa Commissioner || || |- | 3 || Vinod Kumar Tiwari, || || |- | 4 || Surendra Singh Meena || || |- | 5 || Ashutosh Chaturvedi || || |- | 6 || Swagat Das, IPS || || |- | 7 || Sudha Rani Relangi || || |- | 8 || P. R. Ramesh || || |- | 9 || Khushwant Singh Sethi || || |- | 10 || Jaya Varma Sinha, IRTS || || |- | 11 || Sanjeev Kumar Jindal || || |}

==State Information Commission==

==References== {{reflist}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shri Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha {{!}} Central Information Commission|url=https://cic.gov.in/node/2490|access-date=2020-10-31|website=cic.gov.in}}</ref>{{Indian commissions}} {{Portal bar|India|Law}}

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