Former bureaucrat Raj Kumar Goyal sworn in as Chief Info Commissioner

Former IAS officer Raj Kumar Goyal was on Monday (December 15, 2025) sworn in as Chief Info Commissioner (CIC) by President Droupadi Murmu.

A 3-member panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi final week beneficial Mr. Goyal’s title because the CIC.

Mr. Goyal is a 1990-batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. He superannuated as Secretary, Division of Justice below the Ministry of Legislation and Justice, on August 31.

He has additionally served as Secretary (Border Administration) within the House Ministry and held key posts each on the Centre and within the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir.

President Murmu administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Mr. Goyal at a ceremony held on the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The occasion was attended by Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan and Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, amongst others.

The put up of CIC fell vacant after Heeralal Samariya accomplished his time period on September 13.

The panel, headed by PM Modi, has additionally beneficial the names of eight Info Commissioners within the transparency watchdog Central Info Fee throughout a gathering held on Wednesday.

The Fee might be in its full power, after a spot of over 9 years, as soon as the newly chosen CIC and ICs be part of, based on transparency activists.

The Fee is headed by a CIC and might have a most of 10 data commissioners. At current, Anandi Ramalingam and Vinod Kumar Tiwari are the Info Commissioners.

Former Railway Board chief Jaya Verma Sinha, former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Swagat Das, who held key posts in Intelligence Bureau, House Ministry and Cupboard Secretariat, amongst others, then Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer Sanjeev Kumar Jindal, former IAS officer Surendra Singh Meena and ex-Indian Forest Service officer Khushwant Singh Sethi have been beneficial for appointment as Info Commissioners, officers mentioned.

Senior journalists P.R. Ramesh and Ashutosh Chaturvedi, and Sudha Rani Relangi, Member (Authorized), Petroleum and Pure Fuel Regulatory Board (PNGRB) have additionally been chosen by the panel for appointment as data commissioners, they mentioned.

Ms. Relangi has additionally labored as Director of Prosecution, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Joint Secretary and Legislative Counsel, Ministry of Legislation and Justice, Authorities of India, the officers mentioned.

The names of CIC and eight data commissioners have been cleared throughout the assembly of the Modi-led committee comprising Union House Minister Amit Shah and Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.