Mr. Sudhir Bhargava, a retired bureaucrat, took oath as the Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC).

Mr. Bhargava had worked as a Secretary in the ministry of Social Justice before working as an Information Commissioner since June, 2015.

Four Information Commissioners namely Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, Vanaja N Sarna, Neeraj Kumar Gupta and Suresh Chandra were administered the oath of office of the Information Commissioner, Central Information Commission(CIC) by the Chief Information Commissioner, Sudhir Bhargava.

With their induction, the total number of Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission, including Chief Information Commissioner has gone upto 7.