The new building will enable the Commission to function from a single location.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new premises of Central Information Commission, CIC at Munirka in the national capital today.The new building will enable the Commission to function from a single location.

Earlier it was working from two hired buildings. According to an official release, the new CIC building is a State of the Art-Green Building constructed by National Building Construction Corporation ahead of its completion date.

The commission, which has been operating from two separate buildings - August Kranti Bhavan and the old JNU building, faced major space crunch because of rising numbers of cases and petitioners visiting the top appellate authority for RTI matters in the country to get their cases adjudicated.

The five-storey structure houses hearing rooms of the Central Information Commission fitted with information technology and video-conferencing systems, it said.CIC is the apex appellate body established by the Right to Information Act 2005.

The new building in Munirka will enable the commission to function from a single location, according to an official statement today.

"The new CIC building is a state of the art-green building constructed by National Building Construction Corporation ahead of its completion date," it said.

The five-storey structure houses hearing rooms of the Central Information Commission fitted with information technology and video-conferencing systems, it said.