{"id":151318,"date":"2019-07-10T05:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=151318"},"modified":"2019-07-10T05:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:54:34","slug":"capt-appoints-ex-dgp-suresh-arora-chief-information-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/151318","title":{"rendered":"Capt Appoints Ex DGP Suresh Arora as Chief Information Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Senior Journalist Asit Jolly appointed Information Commissioner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chandigarh, July 9 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-103691 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DGP-Aroa.jpg\" alt=\"DGP Aroa\" width=\"335\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DGP-Aroa.jpg 347w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DGP-Aroa-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/>Monday approved the appointment of former DGP Suresh Arora as state Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and senior journalist Asit Jolly as Information Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;A spokesperson of the Chief Minister\u2019s Office said that the notification to this effect had been issued by the state government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;It may be recalled that Suresh Arora, IPS officer of 1982 batch had retired in February this year as state Police Chief after putting in 33 years of service in different capacities. An alumnus of University of London, Arora, during his illustrious career, had served the state as SSP Patiala, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur and UT Chandigarh between April 1987 and August 1994. He was also posted as DIG, Chief Minister\u2019s Security, from September 1998 till July 1998, before being appointed IGP-cum-Director Vigilance Bureau in 2001.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Arora became DGP of Punjab Police in October 2015. It was during his tenure that the Punjab Police department was short listed as the \u2018Best Govt. Department to implement RTI\u2019 by the State Information Commission. Arora also has the distinction of passing \u2018Online Certificate Course\u2019 on the RTI Act, 2005 administered by Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad with \u201cA\u201d Grading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Chandigarh-based Asit Jolly, a noted journalist, currently works as Deputy Editor with India Today Group. He has earlier served as Special Correspondent of The Asian Age and BBC earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Journalist Asit Jolly appointed Information Commissioner &nbsp; Chandigarh, July 9 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday approved the appointment of former DGP Suresh Arora as state Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and senior journalist Asit Jolly as Information Commissioner. &nbsp;A spokesperson of the Chief Minister\u2019s Office said that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Capt Appoints Ex DGP Suresh Arora as Chief Information Commissioner | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/151318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Capt Appoints Ex DGP Suresh Arora as Chief Information Commissioner | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senior Journalist Asit Jolly appointed Information Commissioner &nbsp; 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