new delhi setting in motion the process of creating the lokpal the government has invited applications for filling up the post of its chairperson as well as eight posts of members of the eight posts of members in the lokpal four are to be manned by judicial members and four by nonjudicial members a department of personnel and training release on saturday said the government has circulated the vacancies to the registrar of the supreme court the registrars of high courts chief secretaries of state governments and secretaries in the central government departments and ministries calling for nomination of eligible candidates the vacancies have also been advertised to directly invite applications from eligible candidates a lokpal chairperson can be serving or former chief justice of india a sittingformer judge of the supreme court or a person of impeccable integrity and outstanding ability a person shall be eligible to be appointed as a judicial member of the lokpal if he is or has been a supreme court judge or chief justice of a high court the nonjudicial members must be persons of impeccable integrity and outstanding ability having special knowledge and expertise of not less than 25 years in matters relating to anticorruption policy public administration finance including insurance and banking law and management the applications which must be addressed to secretary dopt and submitted latest by february 7 2014 will be processed by a search committee and its recommendations placed before a selection committee headed by the prime minister other members of this selection committee are lok sabha speaker leader of opposition in the lok sabha chief justice of india or a supreme court judge nominated by him and an eminent jurist as recommended by the other four members of the committee the chairperson and members of lokpal shall have a term of five years from the date of assuming office or until attaining 70 years of age whichever is earlier