Mrs. Sushma Singh

Information Commissioner
Room No.6, Club Building,
Old JNU Campus
New Delhi - 110 067.
Phone:- 011 - 26161997
E-mail:- sushmas@nic.in

Curriculum Vitae

• Mrs. Sushma Singh joined the Central Information Commission as Information Commissioner on 23^rd September, 2009. Prior to joining the Central Information Commission, she was a member of the Inidan Administrative Service from 15^th June, 1972 to 31^st May, 2009. She is a former Secretary to the Government of India who belongs to the Jharkhand Cadre, 1972 Batch, of the IAS. Mrs. Sushma Singh has served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. She has also served in the capacity of Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and also in the Ministry for the Development of the North Eastern Region (DONER).

  
  

• Her other assignments in the Government of India have been in the Ministry of Water Resources in the capacity of Additional Secretary and in the Ministry of Rural Development as Joint Secretary.

  
  

• In the newly created State of Jharkhand, to which Cadre she was allotted at the time of its creation on 15^th November 2000, she served as its first Home Secretary and later as Development Commissioner.

  
  

• Prior to that, in the undivided State of Bihar, she has served as Agricultural Production Commissioner, Secretary in the Department of Primary, Secondary and Adult Elucation, Secretary in the Department of Social Welfare, Special Secretary in the Department of Irrigation and as Additional Finance Commissioner, Government of Bihar. Other important positions held were that of Divsional Commissioner, Santhal Parganas Division, District Magistrate of Samastipur District and Sub-Divisional Officer of Chatra Sub-Division (District Hazaribagh).