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| Chief Information Commissioner of India | |
|---|---|
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Incumbent | |
| Central Information Commission[1] | |
| Nominator | Committee consisting the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and a Union Cabinet Minister as nominated by the Prime Minister |
| Appointer | President of India |
| Term length | as determined by central government |
| Deputy | Information Commissioners of India Deputy Information Commissioners of India |
| Salary | ₹250,000 (US$3,500) per month |
| Website | Chief 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]
| No. | Portrait | Name (born – died) |
Branch | Tenure in office | Immediate previous position held | Appointer (President) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Time in office | ||||||
| 1 | Wajahat Habibullah (born 1945) |
IAS | 26 October 2005 |
19 September 2010 |
4 years, 328 days | Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |
| 2 | A. N. Tiwari | IAS | 30 September 2010 |
18 December 2010 |
79 days | Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training | Pratibha Patil | |
| 3 | 
|
Satyananda Mishra (born 1949) |
IAS | 18 December 2010 |
4 September 2013 |
2 years, 260 days | Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training | |
| 4 | 
|
Deepak Sandhu (born 1948) |
IIS | 5 September 2013 |
18 December 2013 |
104 days | Principal Director General (Media and Communications), Press Information Bureau | Pranab Mukherjee (President) |
| 5 | 
|
Sushma Singh | IAS | 19 December 2013 |
21 May 2014 |
153 days | Information Commissioner | |
| 6 | Rajiv Mathur | IPS | 22 May 2014 |
5 October 2015 |
1 year, 136 days | Director of Intelligence Bureau | ||
| 7 | 
|
Vijai Sharma (born 1950) |
IAS | 6 October 2015 |
1 December 2015 |
56 days | Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests | |
| 8 | 
|
R. K. Mathur (born 1953) |
IAS | 4 January 2016 |
24 November 2018 |
2 years, 324 days | Defence Secretary | |
| 9 | 
|
Sudhir Bhargava (born 1955) |
IAS | 1 January 2019 |
11 January 2020 |
1 year, 10 days | Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 10 | 
|
Bimal Julka (born ) |
IAS | 19 February 2020 |
31 October 2020 |
255 days | Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting | |
| 11 | 
|
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha (born 1958) |
IFS | 7 November 2020 |
3 October 2023 |
2 years, 330 days | High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
| 12 | Heeralal Samariya (born 1960) |
IAS | 6 November 2023 |
Incumbent | 1 year, 133 days | Information Commissioner | Droupadi Murmu |