Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the appointment of agriculture expert Professor Ramesh Chand as one of the full-time members in the NITI Aayog.
Chand has been a member of a task force on agriculture development under NITI Aayog which is formulating strategies to give a boost to the agriculture sector.
He has also headed a government panel on Minimum Support Price and has been working as Director of National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP) in New Delhi since 2010.
The National Institute of Transforming India, NITI Aayog under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been set up in place of place of Planning Commission.
It has noted economist Aravind Panagariya as its Vice Chairman while economist Bibek Debroy and former DRDO Chief V K Saraswat along with agriculture expert Ramesh Chand now as full time members.