Govt forms panel to shortlist candidates for vacant posts of information commissioners.

Hindustan Times: New Delhi: Friday, January 24, 2025.

Govt forms panel to shortlist candidates for vacant posts of information commissioners.

The government has constituted a search committee under Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan to shortlist candidates for eight vacant positions of information commissioners at the Central Information Commission .Govt forms panel to shortlist candidates for vacant posts of information commissioners

The five-member committee also comprised secretaries from Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, besides 16th Finance Commission member Manoj Panda.

On August 14 last year, the Department of Personnel and Training had issued advertisement seeking applications for the post of information commissioners .

In response to the advertisement, the government had received 161 applications for the eight vacant positions of information commissioners at the CIC with applicants from varied backgrounds including a sitting Delhi High Court judge expressing interest in the job, according to a DoPT list provided in an RTI reply to activist Commodore Lokesh Batra .

According to the procedure of the Right to Information Act, particulars of interested persons are invited through advertisements in newspapers and through the DoPT website.