Chief Information Commissioner


Central Information Commission includes 1 Chief Information Commissioner and not more than 10 Information Commissioners who are appointed by the President of India on the recommendations of a Committee. The first Chief Information Commissioner of India was Wajahat Habibullah. First woman Chief Information Commissioner was Deepak Sandhu. After the retirement of the ninth Chief Information Commissioner of India, Sudhir Bhargava on January 11, 2020, Bimal Julka had been appointed as the tenth CIC of India

List of CIC of India

The following have held the post of the Central Information Commissioners.
No.NamePortraitTook officeLeft office
1Wajahat Habibullah26 10 200519 09 2010
2A. N. Tiwari30 09 201018 12 2010
3Satyananda Mishra19 12 201004 09 2013
4Deepak Sandhu05 09 201318 12 2013
5Sushma Singh19 12 201321 05 2014
6Rajiv Mathur22 05 201422 08 2014
7Vijai Sharma10 06 201501 12 2015
8Radha Krishna Mathur04 01 201624 11 2018
9Sudhir Bhargava01 01 201911 January 2020
10Bimal Julka19 02 2020Incumbent