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Chowdary new CVC, Sharma new CIC
New Delhi, June 8
Former Central Board of
Direct Taxation chief K.V. Chowdary has been appointed the new Chief
Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), it was announced here on Monday.
T.M.
Bhasin, chairman and managing director of the public sector Indian
Bank, has been appointed vigilance commissioner, an official release
said.
Seniormost Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma was named the new Chief Information Commissioner, said informed sources
The
post of CVC had been lying vacant since Pradeep Kumar retired on
September 28 last year, while the post of vigilance commissioner was
also unfilled since incumbent J.M. Garg completed his tenure on
September 7 last year.
Chowdary, a 1979 batch Indian Revenue
Service officer, has also headed many high-profile income tax probes,
including that of the 2G spectrum allocation case and the HSBC Geneva
taxpayers' list.
The appointments have been made for a term of
four years from the date(s) on which the officials enter upon their
office(s) or till they attain the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier,
the release added.
The government was under attack from the
opposition for delaying the appointments and various RTI activists had
also questioned the delay.