Information Commissioner Hiralal Samaria was sworn in as the chief of the Central Information Commission (CIC) by President Draupadi Murmu.
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Information Commissioner Hiralal Samaria was sworn in as the chief of the Central Information Commission (CIC) by President Draupadi Murmu. After the appointment of Samaria as Chief Information Commissioner, the posts of eight Information Commissioners are vacant. At present there are two Information Commissioners in the Commission. The Commission is headed by the Chief Information Commissioner and can have a maximum of 10 Information Commissioners. The appointment comes after the Supreme Court asked the central and state governments to take steps to fill the posts, otherwise there would be a violation of the Right to Information Act. But the 2005 law would become a "dead letter". Taking a serious note of the vacancies in the CIC and State Information Commissions (SIC), a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra also asked the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to collect information from all concerned.
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