Govt reconstitutes policy think tank NITI Aayog 

The government has reconstituted its policy planning body, NITI Aayog, with four full-time members and 15 Union ministers as either ex-officio members or special invitees.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains chairperson and economist Suman K. Bery will continue to be vice-chairperson, according to an official notification.

NITI Aayog has four cabinet ministers—defence minister Rajnath Singh, home minister Amit Shah, minister of agriculture and rural development Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman—as ex-officio members. 

Eleven other Union ministers, including some from BJP alliance partners, have become part of the NITI Aayog as special invitees. 

The members include Nitin Gadkari (road transport and highways), Jagat Prakash Nadda (health), H.D. Kumaraswamy (heavy Industries and steel), Jitan Ram Manjhi (micro, small and medium enterprises), Rajiv Ranjan Singh (fisheries, animal husbandry, and dairying),  Virendra Kumar (social justice and empowerment), Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu (civil aviation), Jual Oram (tribal affairs), Annapurna Devi (women and child development), Chirag Paswan (food processing industries), and Rao Inderjit Singh (statistics and programme implementation).

Scientist V. K. Saraswat, agricultural economist Ramesh Chand, pediatrician V. K. Paul and macroeconomist Arvind Virmani will also continue to be full-time members of the think tank.