Retired IAS officer Goyal takes reins of CIC
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ December 15,2025
The President of India administered the ‘Oath of Office’ to Raj Kumar Goyal as Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held today (December 15, 2025) at 1100 hrs. at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Goyal is a 1990-batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. He superannuated as Secretary, Department of Justice under the Ministry of Law and Justice, on August 31.
He has also served as Secretary (Border Management) in the Home Ministry and held key posts both at the Centre and in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
With this, the 11-member CIC acquired full strength for the first time in the past seven years. The Central transparency panel has been headless since September and has been working with just two information commissioners — Anandi Ramalingam and Vinod Tiwari.
Now Goyal will later administer the oath to the eight new information commissioners.
The filling of the vacancies came after a meeting of the Selection Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which also has Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi as members.
