{"id":307662,"date":"2019-01-01T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307662"},"modified":"2019-01-01T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T10:54:49","slug":"sudhir-bhargava-takes-oath-as-chief-information-commissioner-at-rashtrapati-bhavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sudhir-bhargava-takes-oath-as-chief-information-commissioner-at-rashtrapati-bhavan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudhir Bhargava takes oath as Chief Information Commissioner at Rashtrapati Bhavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307663 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bhargava-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bhargava-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bhargava-501x420.jpg 501w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bhargava.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sudhir Bhargava on Tuesday took oath as the chief information commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC), a statement issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President\u00a0Ram Nath Kovind\u00a0administered the oath of office to\u00a0Sudhir Bhargava\u00a0at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhargava was working as the Information Commissioner in the CIC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last month, the government appointed\u00a0Bhargava\u00a0as the new\u00a0Chief\u00a0Information Commissioner\u00a0along with four new Information Commissioners to the CIC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under the Right to Information Act, the\u00a0CIC\u00a0is the highest appeal body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were also present at the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudhir Bhargava on Tuesday took oath as the chief information commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC), a statement issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan said. President\u00a0Ram Nath Kovind\u00a0administered the oath of office to\u00a0Sudhir Bhargava\u00a0at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan, it said. Bhargava was working as the Information Commissioner in the CIC. Last month, the government appointed\u00a0Bhargava\u00a0as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10476,2372,1452,2144,10475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307664,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307662\/revisions\/307664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}