Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Friday administered oath to new Chief Information Commissioner Yash Pal Singal (CIC) and State Information Commissioner (SIC) Narender Yadav at the Raj Bhawan here.
Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu, Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Santosh Yadav, and other senior officers of the State Government were present on the occasion.
Singal is an IPS officer of the 1983 batch. He was awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2001 and President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Services in 2010. He also served as the Chief of Haryana Police, Chief of State Vigilance Bureau, Chief of Prisons and Chief of Intelligence of the state.
The former Haryana DGP Singhal had retired as DGP (Prisons) recently. last year, he was unceremoniously removed as the State police chief in April, for the alleged failure of the state police to control violence during the February 2016 Jat quota violence that had left 31 persons dead and property worth hundreds of crores of rupees destroyed in Haryana.
A high-level committee headed by Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar and comprising Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Rao Narbir Singh and leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Assembly and INlD’s senior leader Abhay Chautala had on Wednesday approved the name of Singal as new CIC and Narender Yadav as SIC.
The Chief Information Commissioner and State Information Commissioner hold the office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon the office or till he attains the age of sixty-five years. The salary and allowances payable to the State Chief Information Commissioner is the same as that of an Election Commissioner while in case of the State Information Commissioner, it is the same as that of the Chief Secretary of the State Government.