Karnal, March 31 -- Even as over 7,000 appeals and complaints under the Right to Information (RTI) Act remain pending, the post of chief information commissioner and as many as seven of the ten sanctioned posts of information commissioners in the State Information Commission, Haryana, are lying vacant.

The number of vacant posts rose last week after chief information commissioner Vijai Vardhan, former chief secretary of Haryana and retired IAS, and Satyaveer Singh Phulia, also a retired IAS and one of the information commissioners, completed their three years of tenure on March 24. They took their posts on March 25, 2022, under the then chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

According to the commission, currently there are three informatio...