By Admin 
President Draupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Raj Kumar Goyal as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on Monday (15 December 2025). A three-member committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recommended Goyal’s name for this post.
Goyal has held important positions
Raj Kumar Goel is a 1990 batch (retired) IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre. He retired from the post of Secretary in the Justice Department under the Ministry of Law and Justice on August 31. He also served as Secretary (Border Management) in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He held important positions in the Center and the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
President Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to Goyal in a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Vice President CP Radhakrishnan and Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh and other dignitaries were present on the occasion. The post of Chief Information Commissioner fell vacant on September 13 after the completion of the tenure of Hiralal Samaria.
Committee headed by PM recommended
The committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi also recommended the names of eight Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission during the meeting held on Wednesday (10 December 2025). According to information activists, when the newly elected Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners assume charge, it will be after a gap of more than nine years that the Commission will function at full capacity.
The Commission is headed by the Chief Information Commissioner and it can have a maximum of 10 Information Commissioners. Presently Anandi Ramalingam and Vinod Kumar Tiwari are working as Information Commissioners.
Have served in these big positions
Officials said that former Railway Board chief Jaya Verma Sinha, former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Swagat Das, who held important positions in the Intelligence Bureau, Home Ministry and Cabinet Secretariat, then Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer Sanjeev Kumar Jindal, former IAS officer Surendra Singh Meena and former Indian Forest Service officer Khushwant Singh Sethi have been recommended for appointment as Information Commissioner.
Senior journalists P R Ramesh and Ashutosh Chaturvedi and Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) member (legal) Sudha Rani Relangi have also been selected by the committee for appointment as information commissioners, he said. The names of the Chief Information Commissioner and eight Information Commissioners were approved in the meeting of the committee led by PM Modi. The committee included Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.