P Ramesh Kumar is appointed as new Chief Information Officer of state

Amaravati: P. Ramesh Kumar IAS(retd) is appointed as State Chief Information Officer by Governor. The government issued orders on Thursday to this effect. Along with him, R. Srinivasa Rao is appointed as State Information Commissioner. Ravi Kumar, Ramana Kumar, Janardhana Rao and Ilapuram Raja are appointed as other Information Commissioners. Ravi Kumar is in charge of CIC now.

Ramesh Kumar belongs to Kadapa and will be the first CIC of Andhra Pradesh. There are four information commissioners as of now and all were appointed by the previous Telugu Desam regime.

The commissioners were also appointed in 2018, a year after the High Court directed then state government to fill the posts at the earliest.