Names of Information Commissioners in CIC and Vigilance Commissioners in CVC will be finalised during the meeting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday chair a meeting to decide on the appointments of chiefs of Central Information Commission (CIC) and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). The meeting will be held at 7, Race Course Road.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for PMO Jitendra Singh and leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge are expected to attend the
meeting.
According to reports, the names of Information Commissioners in CIC and Vigilance Commissioners in CVC will be finalised during the meeting.
After the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, which saw the Congress reduced to just 44 seats, the lack of a Leader of Opposition presented a hurdle in the appointment of members to statutory bodies that require a bipartisan selection panel. The government then decided to allow the Congress to join the selection panels as the single largest opposition party.
Earlier this month, Congress President Sonia Gandhi slammed the Modi government in Parliament. She bemoaned the government's "deplorable lapse" in keeping posts vital to transparency and good governance vacant while showing "extraordinary urgency" in introducing bills.
"The PM in the election campaign made many fraudulent promises about transparency. And continues to do so. In a blatant U-turn, his government, through the absence of a Chief Information Commissioner, has made sure that the highest offices are not accountable under the RTI Act," she said in the Lok Sabha. She accused the government of "brutally weakening" the Right to Information Act, and urged it to "match its words of fighting corruption with action."
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