NITI Aayog. While the vice chairman and the full-time members of the Aayog remain the same, some of the new ministers of the Modi government have become either ex-officio members or special invitees to the Aayog.
Since the term of the Aayog, barring the position of the chief executive officer, is co-terminus with the term of the government, the re-constitution of the Aayog was due since the formation of the new government in June.
As per the notification, effective from Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue to be the chairman of the Aayog with Suman Bery as the vice-chairman and VK Saraswat, Ramesh Chand, VK Paul and Arvind Virmani as full-time members of the Aayog.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh, home minister Amit Shah, agriculture minister Shivraj Singj Chuahan and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman are the ex-officio members of the Aayog, as per the notification.
Further, 11 ministers of the Modi government are special invitees to the Aayog. These include road transport minister Nitin Gadkari, health minister JP Nadda, heavy industries minister HD Kumaraswamy, minister for micro, small and medium enterprises Jitan Ram Manjhi and minister of food processing Chirag Paswan, among others.