Senior IAS officer Amitabh Kant has been given additional charge as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.
Kant will replace the incumbent NITI Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khullar whose extended tenure will end on 31 December 2015.
Amitabh Kant is IAS officer of 1980 Batch of Kerala Cadre. Presently, he is serving as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and is expected to retire in March 2016.
About NITI Aayog
- The National Institution for Transforming India Aayog (NITI Aayog) is a Government of India policy think-tank.
- It was formed on 1 January 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to replace the Planning Commission.
- The Aayog aims at fostering involvement and participation in the economic policy-making process by the State Governments of India.
- One of the important mandates of NITI Aayog is to bring cooperative competitive federalism.