Economic
Times: New Delhi: Monday, 01 June 2015.
A meeting of
a Prime Minister-led panel has been called tomorrow to decide on the chiefs of
Central Information Commissioner (CIC) and Central Vigilance Commissioner(CVC).
Tomorrow's
meeting has been convened at the Prime Minister's residence and will be
attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance MinisterArun Jaitley, Leader
of Congress in the Lok SabhaMallikarjun Kharge and Minister of State for
Personnel Jitendra Singh, official sources said.
The last
meeting of the panel held here on May 23 had remained inconclusive.
The names for
the post of information commissioners in CIC and vigilance commissioners in CVC
are also likely to be finalised in tomorrow's meeting, they said.
Earlier this
month, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi
had questioned the delay in appointments of chiefs of CIC, CVC and Lokpal by
the Modi government.
Many RTI
activists have also questioned the delay in appointments.
The CIC,
which is mandated to resolve appeals and complaints filed against government
departments or public authorities by information seekers under the Right to
Information Act, has been working without a chief for over nine months, after
the tenure of CIC Rajiv Mathur ended on August 22, 2014.
Three posts
of information commissioners in the CIC are also vacant.
Sources said
there are 203 applicants, including all seven information commissioners, for
the post of the Chief Information Commissioner and 553 for the post of
information commissioners.
Under the RTI
Act, the CIC has one chief and 10 information commissioners.
In CVC, the
term of Central Vigilance CommissionerPradeep Kumar had ended on September 28
last year, while vigilance commissioner J M Garg completed his tenure on
September 7.
Sources said
the government has received about 130 applications for the two posts.
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