Overview
- President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to Raj Kumar Goyal at Rashtrapati Bhavan, with Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and minister Jitendra Singh in attendance.
- Eight information commissioners also took office, including Jaya Verma Sinha, Swagat Das, Sanjeev Kumar Jindal, Surendra Singh Meena, Khushwant Singh Sethi, P R Ramesh, Ashutosh Chaturvedi, and Sudha Rani Relangi.
- The Central Information Commission reached its full sanctioned strength for the first time in about nine years, a development transparency advocates say should speed up RTI appeals and complaints.
- Goyal is a 1990-batch AGMUT-cadre IAS officer who retired on August 31 as secretary in the Department of Justice after serving as secretary for Border Management in the Home Ministry.
- The appointments followed recommendations from a three-member committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and officials said Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi recorded a dissent note during the selection.