{"id":328415,"date":"2020-11-07T06:46:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328415"},"modified":"2020-11-07T06:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:46:17","slug":"yashvardhan-kumar-sinha-sworn-in-as-chief-information-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/yashvardhan-kumar-sinha-sworn-in-as-chief-information-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha sworn in as Chief Information\u00a0Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328418 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kovind-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/kovind-1.jpg 651w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/kovind-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/kovind-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/kovind-1-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/kovind-1-610x420.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/>Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was on Saturday sworn in as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind has administered the oath of office to Sinha as the\u00a0Chief Information Commissioner\u00a0in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the post had been lying vacant Since August 2020, after Bimal Julka completed his term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sinha, a former diplomat, joined as the Information Commissioner on January 1, 2019. Sinha, who has also served as India&#8217;s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, will have a three-year tenure as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sinha, aged 62, was short-listed for the post by a three-member committee headed by PM Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was on Saturday sworn in as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement. President Ram Nath Kovind has administered the oath of office to Sinha as the\u00a0Chief Information Commissioner\u00a0in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the statement said. According to the sources, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10476,1452,13677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328415"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328419,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328415\/revisions\/328419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}