Narendra Modi The government has brought back retired IAS officer Parameswaran Iyer as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog, with Amitabh Kant completing his six-year term.
Iyer is considered a very trusted officer of the Prime Minister. This is the second time that Aiyar has been brought in by the Modi government, after being appointed as the in-charge of the PM-signed Swachh Bharat Mission in 2016. Iyer was working with then. World Bank in which he served in Uttar Pradesh cadre after taking premature retirement from IAS in 2009.
As Secretary of the Swachh Bharat Mission since 2016, Aiyar fulfilled PM Modi’s dream of making the country open defecation free (ODF) in 2019 before resigning in 2020 and returning to the United States for personal reasons. He had got an extension in the post till 2021 but left early. Last year, Iyer wrote a memoir, Method in the Madness, about his life experience inside and outside the government.
“While implementing the Swachh Bharat Mission, Iyer had developed close ties with several chief ministers and secretaries across the country. This experience will serve him well in his new role as CEO of NITI Aayog. His appointment comes amid major governance and policy push by the government till 2024,” a senior government official at the Center told News18. Iyer has been appointed as the CEO of NITI Aayog for a period of two years.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the “trump card” in the campaign for the Swachh Bharat Mission and he was strategically used as the “communicator-in-chief” to appeal to the people to join the revolution, Aiyar said in the past. Years continued, wrote in his memoir. “Go ahead and make India clean (Go ahead and make it.) India Swachh),” Modi told Aiyar during their first meeting on April 30, 2016, when he returned to India, according to the book.
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