PANAJI
Goa governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari has approved the State government's recommendation to appoint former Speaker of Goa legislative assembly Vishwas Satarkar as the Chief Information Commissioner.
Koshiyari has also approved the appointment of senior journalist Sanjay Dhavlikar as State Information Commissioner. Dhavlikar is currently the editor of Govan Varta.
The file related to the twin appointments of CIC and SIC has been sent back to the State government after approval by Raj Bhavan and Satarkar-Dhavlikar duo are expected to be formally appointed soon.
The Goa State Information Commission has been functionless for nearly a year after the term of the previous CIC Prashant Tendulkar and SIC Juino De Souza had ended in February last year.
Satarkar and Dhavlikar were among 54 applicants who had pitched for the two posts and were selected by a committee headed by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
