Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha becomes the new Chief Information Commissioner

Recently the Government of India has approved the name of former Foreign Service Officer, Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha as the new Chief Information Commissioner. He was also the information commissioner earlier and was the most senior, so he was elected to this post. The post of CIC chairman was lying vacant for several months after Bimal Julka retired. In place of Sinha, a Marathi journalist, Uday Mahurkar has been elected to the post of Information Commissioner. Uday Mahurkar worked as a deputy editor in the India Today group and is considered close to the Sangh Parivar. Uday Mahurkar has also written a book on PM Modi titled “Merging with a Billion” and “Center Stage: Inside Narendra Modi”.