New Delhi: The Prime Minister-led selection committee could not arrive at a decision on the appointment of chiefs of Central Information Commission (CIC) and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) at a meeting held in New Delhi today.
There will be another meeting on the issue shortly, official sources said.
The meeting was convened at the Prime Minister's residence and was attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh and senior officials of PMO.
The selection panel was to finalise the names of Information Commissioners in CIC and Vigilance Commissioners in CVC, the sources said.
The post of Chief Information Commissioner has been lying vacant for over nine months. Rajiv Mathur's term as chief of the transparency watchdog ended on August 22, 2014. Besides, there is a vacancy of three Information Commissioners in the CIC.
As per Right to Information Act, the CIC has one chief and 10 Information Commissioners.
In CVC, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar and Vigilance Commissioner JM Garg had completed their term on September 28 and September 7, last year, respectively.
The CVC is headed by a Central Vigilance Commissioner and has two Vigilance Commissioners. Rajiv, a former Director General of Central Industrial Security Force, is acting as interim chief of the transparency watchdog.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi had criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of vacant posts of CIC and Information Commissioners.
