A.N. Tiwari is the new Chief Information
Commissioner – 30.09.2010
Information Commissioner A. N. Tiwari is the new Chief Information
Commissioner, succeeding Wajahat Habibullah. He will, however, hold the job
only till December 19, 2010 when he is due to retire, and this is, therefore,
virtually a stop-gap arrangement.
Mr. Tiwari's name was cleared after consultations with the BJP, the
principal Opposition party. A 1969 batch IAS officer and former Secretary,
Department of Personnel and Training, his name has been forwarded to President
Pratibha Patil for appointment as successor to Mr. Habibullah, who demitted
office on 29.09.2010.
Mr. Tiwari's appointment comes after a year of indecision on who should
succeed Mr Habibullah. While the government was keen that he should be replaced
by a bureaucrat, civil society groups had been putting forward names of various
activists.
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