PM Modi Led committees decide chiefs of Central Information Commission ,Central Vigilance Commission

 New Delhi   Today Prime Minister Narendra Modi  ,Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh are likely to attend the meeting to select the chiefs of CIC and CVC sources said. The selection panel meeting will be held at 7, Race Course Road.

The post of Chief Information Commissioner is lying vacant for over nine months. Rajiv Mathur’s term as chief of the transparency watchdog ended on August 22, 2014. Besides, there is a vacancy of three Information Commissioners in the CIC.As per Right to Information Act, the CIC has one chief and ten Information Commissioners.In CVC, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar and Vigilance Commissioner J M Garg had completed their term on September 28 and September 7, last year, respectively.The CVC is headed by a Central Vigilance Commissioner and has two Vigilance Commissioners. Rajiv, a former Director General of Central Industrial Security Force, is acting as interim chief of the transparency watchdog.