The Narendra Modi-led NDA government has reconstituted the NITI Aayog, with four full-time members and 15 union ministers, as either ex-officio members or special invitees. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the chairperson, economist Suman K Bery will continue to be the vice-chairperson of NITI Aayog.
Scientist V K Saraswat, agricultural economist Ramesh Chand, paediatrician V K Paul and macro-economist Arvind Virmani will also continue to be full-time members of the government think-tank.
The four ex-officio members from the PM Modi's cabinet include Union Ministers Rajnath Singh (Defence), Amit Shah (Home), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Agriculture) and Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance). The special invitees in the reconstituted NITI Aayog will be Union ministers Nitin Gadkari (Road Transport and Highways) and JP Nadda (Health).
The ministers representing ally parties of the BJP are HD Kumaraswamy (Heavy Industries and Steel), Jitan Ram Manjhi (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) and Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh (Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying).
The government has reconstituted the NITI Aayog following changes in the council of ministers.
Other special invitees are Union Ministers Virendra Kumar (Social Justice and Empowerment), Rammohan Naidu (Civil Aviation), Jual Oram (Tribal Affairs), Annpurna Devi (Women and Child Development), Chirag Paswan (Food Processing Industries) and Rao Inderjit Singh (Statistics and Programme Implementation). Naidu and Paswan are also from ally parties.
The National Institution for Transforming India, better known as NITI Aayog, was constituted in 2015 when the PM Modi-led Union government chose to scrap the 65-year-old Planning Commission.
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