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Narendra Modi acts to fill vacant CVC posts

The post of CIC has been vacant since August 22, 2014, when the tenure of the sixth CIC, Rajiv Mathur, came to an end. At that time, 7,650 complaints and appeals were pending with the CIC's office. Currently the pendency has surfaced 15,000 cases.

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The tenure the sixth chief information commissioner Rajiv Mathur came to an end in Aug, 2014
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After Congress president Sonia Gandhi's scathing criticism, prime minister Narendra Modi led NDA government on Saturday began the process to fill key posts in the Chief Vigilance Commission and the Information Commission. PM Modi conducted meeting of top ministers and officials to review a list of the names received for various posts. A dozen people have been chosen from over 530 applicants, sources say. They further said that the prime minister asked finance minister Arun Jaitley to further shortlist the panel, before putting names before the selection panel.

There will be another meeting on the issue shortly, official sources said. Besides the PM, the meeting was attended by home minister Rajnath Singh, finance minister Arun Jaitley, leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh and senior officials.

The post of CIC has been vacant since August 22, 2014, when the tenure of the sixth CIC, Rajiv Mathur, came to an end. At that time, 7,650 complaints and appeals were pending with the CIC's office. Currently the pendency has surfaced 15,000 cases.

The Chief Vigilance Commissioner and a Vigilance Commissioner are appointed by a panel that includes PM Modi, home minister Rajnath Singh and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge. After the national election, which saw the Congress reduced to just 44 seats, the lack of a leader of Opposition, the government has now decided to allow the Congress to join the selection panels as the single largest opposition party.

Earlier this month, Sonia Gandhi launching scathing attack on the government for keeping posts vital to transparency and good governance vacant while showing "extraordinary urgency" in introducing bills. She accused the government of "brutally weakening" the Right to Information or RTI Act, and urged it to "match its words of fighting corruption with action."

In CVC, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar and Vigilance Commissioner JM Garg had completed their term on September 28 and September 7, 2014, respectively. The CVC is headed by a Central Vigilance Commissioner and has two Vigilance Commissioners. Rajiv, a former Director General of Central Industrial Security Force, is acting as interim chief of the transparency watchdog.

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