Central Information Commission

The Central Information Commission is a statutory body,[3] set up under the Right to Information Act in 2005[4] 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.[5]

Central Information Commission

Kendriya Soochna Ayog
The official logo of Central Information Commission
Commission overview
Formed	12 October 2005[1]
Annual budget	₹25.1935 crore (US$3.5 million) (2015–16)[2]
Commission executives	Y K Sinha, IAS, Chief Information Commissioner of India Yashovardhan Azad, IPS, Information Commissioner of India Manjula Prasher, IPoS, Information Commissioner Prof. (Dr.) Madabhushanam Sridhar Acharyulu, Information Commissioner Bimal Julka, IAS Information Commissioner Divya Prakash Sinha, IPS, Information Commissioner Amitava Bhattacharya, IAS, Information Commissioner
Key document	RTI Act, 2005 (Act no. 22 of 2005)
Website	www.cic.gov.in

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).

Chief Information Commissioners

The following have held the post of the chief Information Commissioners.[6]

List of Central information Commissioners

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Wajahat Habibullah	26 October 2005	19 September 2010
2	A. N. Tiwari	30 September 2010	18 December 2010
3	Satyananda Mishra	19 December 2010	4 September 2013
4	Deepak Sandhu	5 September 2013	18 December 2013
5	Sushma Singh	19 December 2013	21 May 2014
6	Rajiv Mathur	22 May 2014	22 August 2014
7	Vijai Sharma	10 June 2015	1 December 2015
8	Radha Krishna Mathur	4 January 2016	24 November 2018
9	Sudhir Bhargava	1 January 2019	11 January 2020
10	Bimal Julka	6 March 2020	26 August 2020
11	Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha	31 October 2020	Till Now

References

1. "Introduction". Central Information Commission. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
2. "Annual Report for 2015-16" (PDF). Central Information Commission. p. 23. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
3. https://cic.gov.in/introduction
4. "CIC Annual Report 2005-06" (PDF). p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 January 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
5. Central Information Commission, Government of India. "Powers and functions of the information commissions". Primary source. Central Information Commission, Government of India. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
6. https://cic.gov.in/former-cic-and-ic

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1. "Shri Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha | Central Information Commission". cic.gov.in. Retrieved 31 October 2020.