The Central Information Commission is a statutory body, set up under the Right to Information Act 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 have 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 Right to Information Act.
The commission includes one chief information commissioner and not more than ten information commissioners who are appointed by the President of India on the recommendation of a committee consisting of the Prime Minister as chairperson, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and a Union Cabinet Minister to be nominated by the Prime Minister. Two women have been chief information commissioners: Deepak Sandhu (fourth chief information commissioner overall) and Sushma Singh (fifth overall). The oath to CIC is administered by President of India.
Chief Information Commissioners The following have held the post of the chief Information Commissioners.
+ List of Central information Commissioners No. Name Took office Left office1Wajahat Habibullah2A. N. Tiwari3Satyananda Mishra4Deepak Sandhu5Sushma Singh6Rajiv Mathur7Vijai Sharma8Radha Krishna Mathur9Sudhir Bhargava10Bimal Julka 11Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha12Heeralal Samariya 6 November 2023 13 September 202513Raj Kumar Goyal15 December 2025Incumbent
Current Information Commissioners # Name Designation From To 1 Raj Kumar Goyal, IAS Chief Information Commissioner 2 Anandi Ramalingam, IFoS Informationa Commissioner 3 Vinod Kumar Tiwari, 4 Surendra Singh Meena 5 Ashutosh Chaturvedi 6 Swagat Das, IPS 7 Sudha Rani Relangi 8 P. R. Ramesh 9 Khushwant Singh Sethi 10 Jaya Varma Sinha, IRTS 11 Sanjeev Kumar Jindal
State Information Commission
Following is the list of State Information Commissions. Rank State States Information commission1Andhra PradeshAndhra Pradesh Information Commission2Arunachal PradeshArunachal Pradesh Information Commission3AssamAssam Information Commission4BiharBihar Information Commission5ChhattisgarhChhattisgarh State Information Commission6GoaGoa State Information Commission7GujaratGujarat State Information Commission8HaryanaHaryana State Information Commission9KarnatakaKarnataka State Information Commission10Jammu & KashmirJammu & Kashmir State Information Commission11KeralaKerala State Information Commission12Madhya PradeshMadhya Pradesh State Information Commission13MaharashtraMaharashtra State Information Commission14MeghalayaMeghalaya State Information Commission15MizoramMizoram Information Commission16NagalandNagaland Information Commission17OrissaOdisha State Information Commission18PunjabPunjab State Information Commission19RajasthanRajasthan Information Commission20SikkimSikkim State Information Commission21Tamil NaduTamil Nadu Information Commission22TripuraTripura State Information Commission22UttarakhandUttarakhand Information Commission22Uttar PradeshUttar Information Commission22TelanganaTelangana Information Commission23Himachal PradeshHimachal Pradesh Information Commission24ManipurManipur Information Commission25West BengalWest Bengal Information Commission25JharkhandJharkhand State Information Commission
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