PM Modi expands NITI Aayog with Arunachal’s Dr Joram Aniya and ‘Energy Inside’ creator Balasubramaniam
2 min learnNew DelhiCould 2, 2026 09:59 PM IST
Days after reconstituting the NITI Aayog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday permitted the appointment of Dr R Balasubramaniam and Dr Joram Aniya as full-time members of the suppose tank.
With the 2 new additions, the whole variety of full-time members of NITI Aayog will now rise to seven.
Whereas Balasubramaniam has served as a member of Capability Constructing Fee and authored the ebook, ‘Energy Inside: The Management Legacy of Narendra Modi’; Aniya is an academician and member of the Arunachal Pradesh Non-public Academic Regulatory Fee, with over 18 years of expertise in instructing, analysis and public coverage engagement.
Calling Aniya’s appointment “historic”, an official of the NITI Aayog stated she is the primary lady from the Nyishi group to earn a PhD, and likewise the primary doctorate in Hindi language in Arunachal Pradesh. She has additionally authored and edited many books on Nyishi literature and tradition, together with quite a few analysis publications.
On April 24, the federal government appointed a brand new vice-chairman and changed 4 of the 5 full-time members of the premier coverage suppose tank. Eminent economist Ashok Lahiri has changed vice-chairman Suman Berry, who was serving within the put up since April 2022. The opposite new members embody Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Division of Science and Expertise, and Dr M Srinivas, director, AIIMS Delhia authorities notification stated.
That is the primary main revamp of the NITI Aayog since its inception in 2015, when it had changed the Nehruvian Planning Fee.
