Chief Information Commissioner of India
Incumbent
Heeralal Samariya (Retd.IAS)
Central Information Commission[1]
NominatorCommittee consisting the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and a Union Cabinet Minister as nominated by the Prime Minister
AppointerPresident of India
Term lengthas determined by central government
DeputyInformation Commissioners of India
Deputy Information Commissioners of India
Salary₹250,000 (US$3,500) per month
WebsiteChief Information Commissioner of India

The Chief Information Commissioner of India is the head of the Central Information Commission appointed by the President of India. The first Chief Information Commissioner was Wajahat Habibullah. First woman Chief Information Commissioner was Deepak Sandhu. The tenure of the commissioners has been cut to three years in the new rules.[2]

The following have held the post of the Central Information Commissioners.[3]

List of Central Information Commissioners[4]
No. Name Portrait Took office Left office
1 Wajahat Habibullah 26 October 2005 19 September 2010
2 A. N. Tiwari 30 September 2010 18 December 2010
3 Satyananda Mishra 19 December 2010 4 September 2013
4 Deepak Sandhu 5 September 2013 18 December 2013
5 Sushma Singh 19 December 2013 21 May 2014
6 Rajiv Mathur 22 May 2014 22 August 2014
7 Vijai Sharma 10 June 2015 1 December 2015
8 Radha Krishna Mathur 4 January 2016 24 November 2018
9 Sudhir Bhargava 1 January 2019 11 January 2020
10 Bimal Julka[5] 19 February 2020 31 October 2020
11 Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha[6] 7 November 2020 3 October 2023
12 Heeralal Samariya[7] 6 November 2023 13 September 2025

References

  1. ↑ https://cic.gov.in/
  2. ↑ "Centre issues new RTI rules, cuts CIC tenure to 3 years, holds power to decide other terms". 25 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Former Chief ICs | Central Information Commission". cic.gov.in.
  4. ↑ "List of all the Chief Information Commissioners". 2 May 2019.
  5. ↑ Phukan, Sandeep (18 February 2020). "Sanjay Kothari tipped to be CVC; Bimal Julka is CIC". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com.
  6. ↑ "Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha takes oath as Chief Information Commissioner - The Hindu". The Hindu. 7 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Bureau, The Hindu (6 November 2023). "Heeralal Samariya sworn in as Chief Information Commissioner". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 7 November 2023.


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