THE WAR ON INFORMATION
The Central Information Commission (CIC) is headless again. Nearly 35,000 cases are currently pending in the CIC, and five out of 11 posts of commissioners, including the chief information commissioner, are vacant. This is even after the Supreme Court directed in February 2019 that appointments of information commissioners must be timely and made in a transparent manner.
Vacancies in commissions lead to large backlogs resulting in concomitant delays
