PM-led panels to meet tomorrow on CIC, CVC selections

May 22, 2015 21:45

The Prime Minister-led selection committees will meet here tomorrow to decide on appointments of chiefs of Central Information Commission (CIC) and Central Vigilance Commission.

The meeting has been convened tomorrow at Prime Minister's residence, official sources said. 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 tomorrow's meeting to select the chiefs of CIC and CVC, they said.

The selection panel will also finalise the names of Information Commissioners in CIC and Vigilance Commissioners in CVC, the sources said.

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.

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