Overview
- The Cabinet Secretariat said in a Saturday Gazette notice that Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved Dr. R. Balasubramaniam and Dr. Joram Aniya as full-time members, effective when they take charge.
- The additions raise NITI Aayog’s full-time membership to seven alongside a vice-chair, completing a leadership reset that began with an April 24 reshuffle.
- Balasubramaniam serves on the Capacity Building Commission under Mission Karmayogi and is credited with shaping the competency framework now used to train civil servants.
- Aniya, an Arunachal Pradesh academic and the first Nyishi woman to earn a PhD and the state’s first Hindi doctorate, brings a Northeast perspective as regional leaders and the prime minister publicly welcomed her selection.
- NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission in 2015 and functions as the government’s top policy advisory body chaired by the prime minister.