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Chief Information Commissioner of India

Incumbent Bimal Julka since 19 February 2020
Central Information Commission
Nominator	Committee consisting the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and a Union Cabinet Minister as nominated by the Prime Minister
Appointer	President of India
Term length	as determined by central government
Deputy	Information Commissioners of India Deputy Information Commissioners of India
Website	Chief Information Commissioner of India

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Central Information Commission includes 1 Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and not more than 10 Information Commissioners (IC) 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 ^[1]

List of CIC of India

The following have held the post of the Central Information Commissioners.^[2]

List of Central Information Commissioners
No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Wajahat Habibullah	26 October 2005	19 September 2010
2	A. N. Tiwari	30 September 2010	18 December 2010
3	Satyananda Mishra	19 December 2010	4 September 2013
4	Deepak Sandhu	5 September 2013	18 December 2013
5	Sushma Singh	19 December 2013	21 May 2014
6	Rajiv Mathur	22 May 2014	22 August 2014
7	Vijai Sharma	10 June 2015	1 December 2015
8	Radha Krishna Mathur	4 January 2016	24 November 2018
9	Sudhir Bhargava	1 January 2019	11 January 2020
10	Bimal Julka^[1]	19 February 2020	Incumbent