New Delhi: Former IAS officer Parameswaran Iyer has been appointed as the new CEO of NITI Aayog on Friday, according to a government order. He was the former drinking water and sanitation secretary. He had resigned from his post in July last year. Iyer, a 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre and well-known sanitation expert, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog. Iyer took voluntary retirement from the Indian Administrative Service in 2009. He succeeds Amitabh Kant, who will retire on June 30 for two years or until further orders, whichever is earlier, the order said.
Iyer led the Swachh Bharat Mission, a nationwide cleanliness campaign launched by the Government of India in 2014. He had also worked as a senior rural water sanitation specialist at the United Nations.
Apart from the Swachh Bharat Mission, he was also given additional charge of Jal Jeevan Mission, another project of the Prime Minister, with the goal of providing piped water supply to all households by 2024 through integrated water supply management at the ground level. was.
He also served as the Global Leader for the Strategic Initiative in Water global exercise of the World Bank. Before joining the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India in 2016, he worked for the World Bank in Vietnam, China, Egypt, Lebanon and Washington. He has been a columnist for the Indian Express.
Iyer also worked as Professor of Management Practice at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
The Personnel Ministry order said that Iyer has been appointed on the same terms and conditions as were applicable to Kant.