{"id":9845,"date":"2020-11-07T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2020-11-07T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:14:04","slug":"yashvardhan-kumar-sinha-sworn-in-as-chief-of-central-information-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/yashvardhan-kumar-sinha-sworn-in-as-chief-of-central-information-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha sworn in as Chief of Central Information Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, a former diplomat has been appointed the Chief of Central Information Commission (CIC) on Saturday. President Kovind administered the oath of office in a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led three-member committee, which includes the leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Union Home Minister Amit Shah as members in the panel selected Mr Sinha, Mr Mahurkar, Mr Samariya and Ms Punhani.<\/p>\n<p>For two months the post of CIC had been vacant following Bimal Julka\u2019s completion of office term on August 26th. The new Chief YK Sinha will be in the tenure for three years. Earlier, he had served as the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The other Information Commissioners are Vanaja N Sarna, Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Suresh Chandra and Amita Pandove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, a former diplomat has been appointed the Chief of Central Information Commission (CIC) on Saturday. President Kovind administered the oath of office in a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. 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