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Central Information Commission

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Abbreviation
  
CIC

Federal agency
  
India

Formed
  
2005

Governing body
  
Government of India

Annual budget
  
₹113 million (US$1.7 million) (2011–12)

Legal personality
  
Governmental: Government agency

The Central Information Commission (CIC) set up under the Right to Information Act is the authorised body, established in 2005, under the Government of India to act upon complaints from those individuals who have not been able to submit information requests to a Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer due to either the officer not having been appointed, or because the respective Central Assistant Public Information Officer or State Assistant Public Information Officer refused to receive the application for information under the RTI Act. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 8th Annual Convention of Central Information Commission (CIC) on 2 September 2013.

Contents

The Commission includes 1 Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and not more than 10 Information Commissioners (IC) who are appointed by the President of India.

Current Information Commissioners

  1. R K Mathur Current CIC
  2. Basant Seth
  3. Yashovardhan Azad
  4. Sharat Sabharwal
  5. Manjula Prasher
  6. M A Khan Yusufi
  7. Prof Madabhushanam Sridhar Acharyulu
  8. Sudhir Bhargava
  9. Bimal Julka
  10. Divya Prakash Sinha
  11. Amitava Bhattacharyya

Chief Information Commissioners

  1. Wajahat Habibullah
  2. A N Tiwari
  3. Satyananda Mishra
  4. Deepak Sandhu
  5. Sushma Singh
  6. Rajiv Mathur
  7. Vijai Sharma
  8. Radhakrishna Mathur
  9. Vijai Sharma

References

Central Information Commission Wikipedia