Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday appointed former UP DGP Rajkumar Vishwakarma as chief information commissioner (CIC) along with ten information commissioners (ICs), officials said here o Thursday.
The 10 newly-appointed ICs are Mohammad Nadeem, Virendra Singh, Sudhir Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Dilip Agnihotri, Rajendra Kumar Singh, Padam Dwivedi, Shakuntala Gautam, Girjesh Kumar Chaudhary and Swatantra Prakash.
The CIC and the ICs were selected from around 68 applicants by a three-member committee headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath comprising the leader of the Opposition in the assembly and the state finance minister recently.
The commissioners are appointed for a term of three years or attaining the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier from the date of assuming the office.
