Niti Aayog Vice Chairman (Suman Bery)

Suman Bery was appointed as the recent Niti Aayog Vice Chairman on 1st May 2022. NITI Aayog is India's leading policy-making institution that helps to enhance India's economic growth. It strives to build a strong state that will assist in creating a spirited and powerful country to make India arise as an influential economy in the world. Niti Aayog Vice Chairman heads all the decisions of the think tank related to public policy and economics.

Before Suman Bery, the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog was Rajiv Kumar, who served the office from 2017-2022. Find all information about the Vice Chairman of the think tank of the government here.

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman 2022

The Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog is Suman Bery, who officially joined the organization on 1st May 2022. NITI Aayog is India's leading policy-making institution that helps to enhance India's economic growth. It strives to build a strong state that will assist in creating a spirited and powerful country to make India arise as an influential economy in the world. Get a better overview of the organization from the table below:

Present Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog

Suman Bery is the present Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog. The VC heads all the important decisions of the organization. Nit Aayog is transforming itself as an end-to-end, modernized Resource Hub with the necessary resources, skills and knowledge to remain empowered to work with agility, innovation and advanced research to handle unanticipated problems. Find more about the Niti Aayog Vice Chairman below.

About Suman Bery:

• Suman Bery is an economist, writer, and academic who is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog.
• He served at the World Bank for 28 years, becoming a lead economist.
• He worked as a special consultant to the Reserve Bank of India from 1992-1994.
• He formerly served as the director general of the National Council of Applied Economic Research.
• He has also formerly served as a member of the Reserve Bank of India's Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy and the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
• He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines such as Indian Express, Forbes, Economic and Political Weekly, and Business Standard.

List of Niti Aayog Vice Chairman

Since its inception in 2015, Niti Aayog has had three different Vice Chairmen. Here is the complete Niti Aayog Vice Chairman list:

What is Niti Aayog?

Niti Aayog was instituted on 1st January 2015 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the Chairman and Arvind Panagariya as the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog. This organization is also known as the Planning Commission of India. Find more about this think tank of the government below:

• While the word "NITI" in Sanskrit means righteousness and guidance, in the present context, it means the right approach, and the NITI is an acronym for National Institution for Transforming India.
• The principal reason for establishing NITI Aayog was that individuals had anticipations for change and development in the Government through their participation.
• This required institutional modifications in management and operational strategy modifications that could plant and facilitate considerable scale transformation. In addition, the NITI Aayog's creation holds two centres called "Knowledge and Innovation Hub" and "Team India Hub".
• The Previous Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog was Rajiv Kumar.
• The First Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog was the Indian-American economist Arvind Panagariya.

Niti Aayog Objectives

• The active engagement of States in the light of national goals and to deliver a framework for 'national agenda'.
• To facilitate collaborative federalism through well-composed sponsorship endeavours and mechanisms with the States on an uninterrupted ground.
• To create strategies to develop a dependable process at the village level and aggregate these slowly at the topmost levels of Government.
• An economic approach that includes national safety interests.
• To offer strategic and long-term approaches and agenda frameworks and endeavours and check their improvement and their effectiveness.
• To give advice and promote collaborations between significant stakeholders and national-global Think Tanks and academic and policy analysis institutions.
• To present a platform for the solution of inter-departmental and inter-sectoral problems to expedite the achievement of the advanced agenda.
• To maintain a state-of-the-art Resource Centre, be a storehouse of analysis on good administration and most profitable practices in sustainable and fair development and help their allocation to participants.
• To effectively evaluate and screen the execution of agendas and initiatives, including the identification of the required resources to support the possibility of success.

Composition of Niti Aayog

The NITI Aayog in India comprise the following:

• Prime Minister as the Chairman.
• Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery.
• Governing Council includes Chief Ministers of every state and Union Territories.
• Special Invitees include renowned professionals and experts with relevant domain knowledge appointed by the Prime Minister.
• 4 Ex Office members nominated by the Prime Minister.

FAQs about Niti Aayog Vice Chairman

Q1. Who is the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog?

Suman Bery is the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog. He took charge of the office on 1st May 2022, after the previous VC, Rajiv Kumar resigned from the position. Bery is a renowned academic, writer, and economist who previously served in the World Bank for 28 years.

Q2. Who appoints the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog?

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman is appointed by the Chairman of the organization. The Chairman of Niti Aayog is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So, the power of appointing the Vice Chairman is in the hands of the Prime Minister.

Q3. Who was the first Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog?

Mr. Arvind Panagariya was the first vice chairman of NITI Aayog, who served the office from 2015 to 2017. He resigned from his position in a span of two years to pursue academics. He was succeeded by Mr. Rajiv Kumar as the second VC of Niti Aayog.

Q4. Where can I get Niti Aayog Vice Chairman list?

List of Niti Aayog Vice Chairman is given here. Check out all the previous vice chairmen of Niti Aayog below:

• Suman Bery - present Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog (2022-present).
• Rajiv Kumar - VC of Niti Aayog from 2017-2022.
• Arvind Panagariya - first VC of the organization who served from 2015-2017.

Q5. What does NITI Aayog stand for?

NITI AAYOG is an acronym for NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR TRANSFORMING INDIA. Its role is to facilitate collaborative nationalism through structured aid endeavours and mechanisms with the States constantly, remembering that powerful States build a strong nation.