❖ Union government reconstituted the NITI Aayog, with four full-time members and 15 Union Ministers, as either ex-officio members or special invitees. 

❖ Prime Minister remains the chairperson and economist Suman K. Bery will continue to be the vice-chairperson of NITI Aayog

. ❖ Scientist V.K. Saraswat, agricultural economist Ramesh Chand, paediatrician V.K. Paul and macro-economist Arvind Virmani will also continue to be full-time members.

❖ The four ex-officio members will be the Union Ministers of Defence, Home, Agriculture and Finance.

❖ The National Institution for Transforming India, known as ‘NITI Aayog’, was constituted in 2015 by scraping the 65-year-old Planning Commission.