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Former IAS serviceman Raj Kumar Goyal was connected Monday (December 15, 2025) sworn successful arsenic Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) by President Droupadi Murmu.
A three-member sheet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi past week recommended Mr. Goyal's sanction arsenic the CIC.
Mr. Goyal is simply a 1990-batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) serviceman of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. He superannuated arsenic Secretary, Department of Justice nether the Ministry of Law and Justice, connected August 31.
He has besides served arsenic Secretary (Border Management) successful the Home Ministry and held cardinal posts some astatine the Centre and successful the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir.
President Murmu administered the oath of bureau and secrecy to Mr. Goyal astatine a ceremonial held astatine the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The lawsuit was attended by Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan and Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, among others.
The station of CIC fell vacant aft Heeralal Samariya completed his word connected September 13.
The panel, headed by PM Modi, has besides recommended the names of 8 Information Commissioners successful the transparency watchdog Central Information Commission during a gathering held connected Wednesday.
The Commission volition beryllium successful its afloat strength, aft a spread of implicit 9 years, erstwhile the recently selected CIC and ICs join, according to transparency activists.
The Commission is headed by a CIC and tin person a maximum of 10 accusation commissioners. At present, Anandi Ramalingam and Vinod Kumar Tiwari are the Information Commissioners.
Former Railway Board main Jaya Verma Sinha, erstwhile Indian Police Service (IPS) serviceman Swagat Das, who held cardinal posts successful Intelligence Bureau, Home Ministry and Cabinet Secretariat, among others, past Central Secretariat Service (CSS) serviceman Sanjeev Kumar Jindal, erstwhile IAS serviceman Surendra Singh Meena and ex-Indian Forest Service serviceman Khushwant Singh Sethi person been recommended for assignment arsenic Information Commissioners, officials said.
Senior journalists P.R. Ramesh and Ashutosh Chaturvedi, and Sudha Rani Relangi, Member (Legal), Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) person besides been selected by the sheet for assignment arsenic accusation commissioners, they said.
Ms. Relangi has besides worked arsenic Director of Prosecution, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Joint Secretary and Legislative Counsel, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India, the officials said.
The names of CIC and 8 accusation commissioners were cleared during the gathering of the Modi-led committee comprising Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
