New Delhi, Dec 15: Retired IAS officer Raj Kumar Goyal was on Monday sworn in as Chief Information Commissioner by President Droupadi Murmu.
A three-member panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week recommended Goyal’s name as the CIC.
Goyal is a 1990-batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service officer of J&K-AGMUT cadre & superannuated as Secretary, Department of Justice under the Ministry of Law and Justice, on August 31.
President Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to Goyal at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The event was attended by Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, among others.
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