Union government reconstituted the NITI Aayog, with four full-time members and 15 Union Ministers, as either ex-officio members or special invitees.
Prime Minister remains the chairperson and 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.
The four ex-officio members will be the Union Ministers of Defence, Home, Agriculture and Finance.
The National Institution for Transforming India, known as ‘NITI Aayog’, was constituted in 2015 by scraping the 65-year-old Planning Commission.