17th JULY 2024 ENGLISH TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF TNPSC SHOUTERS
Change in Niti Aayog Committee
- Niti Aayog is a body set up in 2015 to replace the existing Planning Commission in India. The Prime Minister is acting as its chairman. The NDA coalition government led by Prime Minister Modi was sworn in for the third time last month.
- In this case, there has been a change in the Niti Aayog headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Leaders from NDA alliance parties have also been included in Niti Aayog. It has been announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue as the Chairman and Economist Suman K Peri will continue as the Vice Chairman of the Niti Aayog.
- Scientist VK Saraswat, agricultural economist Ramesh Chand, pediatrician VK Paul and macroeconomist Arvind Virmani will also continue as full-time members of the government think tank. It is reported that PVR Subramaniam will also be the CEO.
- Four ex-officio members are appointed. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been appointed as an ex-officio member of Niti Aayog, replacing Narendra Singh Tomar. Other official members include Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Home Minister Amit Shah and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh.
- Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, JP Natta, HD Kumaraswamy, Jitan Manji Ram, Lalan Singh Virendra Kumar, Jewel Oram, Annapoorna Devi, Chirak Paswan, Kinchirappu Ram Mohan Naidu, Rao Inderjit are the special invitees.
- Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Ashwini Vaishnav, who were earlier special invitees, are not on the list this time. Earlier Nitin Gadkari, Virendra Kumar and Rao Inderjit Singh were special invitees.
- In 2015, the Chothu Bihar state government issued an ordinance to drop the caste, which was in the most backward category of Danti-Tandwa, from the SC list. A petition filed by one party in the Patna High Court against this was rejected.
- Subsequently, an appeal was filed in the Supreme Court. The bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Prashant Kumar Mishra, which was investigating this, said, 'According to Article 341 of the Constitution, SC.
- The divisional castes are tabulated. In addition, no state government has the authority to make any changes, including the exclusion of certain castes.
