Subrahmanyam, Ex-comm Secy named CEO of Niti Aayog

The government on Monday (20.02.2023) appointed former Commerce Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam as the new Chief Executive of Niti Aayog, replacing Parameswaran Iyer who will move to Washington as India's Executive Director to the World Bank, after just seven months in the think tank.

Rajesh Khullar, a 1988 batch IAS officer from Haryana, will return to his state cadre before the end of his term at the World Bank.

For Iyer, World Bank marks as a return to Washington as he had resigned from the IAS to take up an assignment at the multilateral agency only to return to India to drive the Swachh Bharat programme, before heading back to the US.

Subrahmanyam is Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) man in his role as commerce secretary. The former IAS officer from the Chhattisgarh cadre was nominated to head ITPO with MoS rank but did not join the post.

With long years in the PMO, working initially with Manmohan Singh and subsequently with Narendra Modi, he was handpicked to serve as the chief secretary of Jammu & Kashmir after the special status granted to it was revoked.