Times of India: Goa: Sunday, 13 December 2015.
The state
government has appointed former additional president of Goa state
administrative tribunal, South Goa, Prashant Tendulkar as chief information
commissioner (CIC).
The
government also appointed writer and lawyer Juino de Souza and senior public
prosecutor Pratima Vernekar as state information commissioners (SIC).
They will
assume charge after the oath of office will be administered to them by the
state governor. Goa governor Mridula Sinha has granted her assent to appoint
CIC and SICs for the state.
Last month,
the state cabinet had decided to recommend the appointment of Tendulkar, as the
new CIC and Vernekar, and D'Souza, as the new SICs.
It was only
after an RTI forum moved the court and the media highlighted the plight of
citizens who have nowhere to go in view of the posts lying vacant, that the
government initiated the process to fill the posts, sources said.
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