(ET)
Ahead of the first meeting of NITI Aayog’s governing council on June 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved reconstitution of the policy think tank. While Rajiv Kumar continue to remain the vice chairman with V K Saraswat, Ramesh Chand and Dr V K Paul as members, the name of economist Bibek Debroy was dropped. The statement issued by PIB on Thursday night however did not find name of Amitabh Kant, who was CEO at NITI Aayog in NDA-I. The newly constituted NITI Aayog will have defence minister Raj Nath Singh, home minister Amit Shah, Finance and Corporate Affairs minister Nirmala Sitharaman, agriculture, farmers welfare and rural development minister Narendra Singh Tomar as ex-officio members.
