Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Wednesday appointed retired IAS officer Manoj Kumar Parida as the Chief Information Commissioner of the state Information Commission.
Parida will succeed J K Tripathy. Parida, a 1986-batch IAS officer, has been serving as Insurance Ombudsman in Bhubaneswar since July 2022.
Earlier, he had served as the chief secretary of Puducherry and adviser to the Chandigarh Administrator.
An official release issued by the CMO said retired IPS officer Pranabindu Acharya, High Court Advocate Kalpana Pattnaik and Pabitra Mandal, a retired IAS officer, were named as Information Commissioners.
The state government set up the Odisha Information Commission March 2, 2006, under the Right to Information Act, 2005.
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