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Odisha‬ CIC Tarun Kanti Mishra resigned

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The Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Odisha‬ Tarun Kanti Mishra on 12 February 2015 resigned from his position.

Mishra, a 1975-batch IAS officer, was appointed as CIC in November 2010, three months after retiring as state chief secretary. His tenure as CIC would have come to an end on August 1 this year.

He was the Home secretary of Odisha during communal violence in Kandhamal and other parts of the state during the aftermath of killing of VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati on 23 August 2014.