Question

Who was the first Vice-Chairman of the NITI Ayog?
1. Arvind Panagariya
2. Raghuram Rajan
3. Chandrashelhara Subramanyam
4. Rajiv Kumar

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Arvind Panagariya

The correct answer is Arvind Panagariya.

• Princeton University (Ph. D.) Arvind Panagariya (born 30 September 1952) is an Indian-American economist and a professor of economics at Columbia University, who served as the first vice-chairman of the government of India's think-tank NITI Aayog between January 2015 and August 2017.

Name of Personality	Position hold
S. S. Mundra	Retired as Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India on 30th July 2017. Currently as non-executive chairman of Indiabulls Housing.
Cyrus Mistry	He was the chairman of Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016.
Soumya Kanti Ghosh	Soumya Kanti Ghosh is currently the Group Chief Economic Advisor, State Bank of India.
Raghuram Rajan	At the age of 40, Rajan became the youngest ever Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Chandrashelhara Subramanyam	The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 was divided equally between Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" and William Alfred Fowler "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reaction.

 

• The National Institution for Transforming India, also called NITI Aayog, was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet on January 1, 2015.
• NITI Aayog is the premier policy ‘Think Tank’ of the Government of India, providing both directional and policy inputs. 
• Chairperson - Shri Narendra Modi, Hon'ble Prime Minister.
• Amitabh Kant is the current CEO of the NITI Aayog.
• Rajiv Kumar is the current Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog. 
• Amitabh Kant is an IAS officer of the 1980 batch.