Ripnar Lyngdoh sworn in as Meghalaya CIC

Shillong, Nov 5 (UNI) Retired IAS officer Ripnar Lyngdoh was sworn in as the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Meghalaya on Thursday. Governor Chandrashekhar H. Vijayashankar administered the oath of office to Lyngdoh at a brief ceremony at the Lok Bhavan, Shillong. The ceremony was attended by Chief Secretary Dr P. Shakil P. Ahammed, Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Department Secretary Isawanda Laloo, and other officials. Lyngdoh succeeds Rebecca Vanessa Suchiang following her demise in August this year. She is the second woman after Suchiang to head the State CIC, a statutory body and the highest appellate body established under…