It refers to welcome Supreme Court order directing central government to make appointment-process of Central Information Commissioners CICs including the Chief transparent by putting list of applicants on website making clear service-conditions of CICs. Supreme Court has also directed to initiate appointment-process of other three CICs wherein presently the process is initiated only for appointment of Chief Information Commissioner and four more Commissioners because at that time there were only four vacancies at CIC with four more retired after wards in November-December 2018.
But instead of further delaying and spending extra on the appointment-process, central government can better select all the eight new Commissions from the existing list of applicants by seeking appropriate directions from the Supreme Court. For future, selection should be done well in advance so that newly selected Commissioners may take charge immediately on retirement of earlier ones to fully utilise huge infrastructure of CIC where presently much of the staff has to sit ideal after retirement of Commissioners.
MADHU AGRAWAL