New Delhi: Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, a retired IFS officer, was sworn in as Chief Information Commissioner by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi today.
Kovind has administered the oath of office to Sinha as the Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, it said.
The post had been lying vacant for over two months after Bimal Julka completed his term on 26 August.
CIC and IC appointments are for five years or till the person appointed turns 65; Sinha, who was short-listed by a three-member committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is 62.
Other members of the committee were Home Minister Amit Shah and the Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is also the leader of his party in the Lok Sabha.