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Development activistic and enactment trainer R. Balasubramaniam and economist K. V. Raju from Karnataka person been appointed arsenic full-time members of NITI Aayog by the Centre. This marks the archetypal clip that 2 distinguished professionals from the State person been appointed simultaneously to the policy-making body.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the president of the NITI Aayog, reconstituted the assemblage by appointing caller members. Economist Ashok Lahiri, erstwhile BJP MLA successful West Bengal, has been appointed arsenic vice-chairman.
Dr. R Balasubramaniam, popularly known arsenic Dr. Balu, is simply a improvement activist, enactment trainer, and author. He has astir 4 decades of acquisition successful improvement and nationalist policy. Dr. Balu holds an MBBS and an M.Phil successful Hospital Administration and Health Systems Management from BITS, Pilani. He played a cardinal relation successful formulating the Karnataka Youth Policy during the BJP authorities successful 2022.
He is the laminitis of the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement and the Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement, Mysuru, some of which person precocious community-driven improvement and argumentation advocacy crossed India.
Dr. Balu besides served arsenic subordinate (HR) astatine the Capacity Building Commission, New Delhi, from its inception until April 2026. A erstwhile Rhodes prof astatine Cornell University, USA, helium has conducted enactment workshops successful India and overseas and authored respective books.
Prof. K.V. Raju served arsenic the economical advisor to the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the past 9 years. Earlier, helium was economical advisor to the BJP-led authorities successful Karnataka (2008–13). He was a prof astatine the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, and has held aggregate positions, including main idiosyncratic astatine ICRISAT, Hyderabad; visiting probe chap astatine IFPRI, Washington D.C.; prof emeritus astatine Chanakya University, Bengaluru; and subordinate of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
He besides authored respective books connected economics and nationalist policy. (EOM)
