Senior Journalist Uday Mahurkar has been appointed as Information Commissioner in Govt of India

Senior Deputy Editor and eminent author Uday Mahurkar has been appointed as Information Commissioner in Govt of India by His Excellency the President Shri Ramnath Kovind on the recommendation of the Narendra Modi Government.  Mr Mahurkar is all set to take over this prestigious position after a glorious career of 33 years with India Today Magazine.  After covering all the major beats of journalism for three decades , Mr Mahurkar’s journalistic experience will prove to be a boon for his new position of semi-judicial nature which deals with implementation of the Right to Information Act. Mr Mahurkar has written two books on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. One on : Modi’s 13 year tenure as Gujarat Chief Minister titled “ Centrestage: Inside the Narendra Modi model of Governance’  and second book titled “ Marching with a Billion “ on PM Modi’s three years as PM, which was released at the Rashtrapati Bhavan by Lok Sabha speaker and late Union Minister of Finance Shri Arun Jetley in the presence of the then President Shri Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari. The book was endorsed by former French President Francois Hollande, Prime MInister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh and Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy amongst others.