NITI Aayog moves towards lateral entry of private sector professionals

Earlier, the Planning Commission had also hired professionals from private sector

The NITI Aayog’s reported decision to hire professionals from the private sector at all levels, including that of secretary and joint secretary rank, is not the first attempt to hire people from the private sector.

In fact, in the previous Planning Commissions, too, there had been attempts to rope in people from the private sector into the government set-up.

In the current NITI Aayog, the head of its land policy cell, Dr Tajmul Haque, is one such example of a lateral entry into the government set-up. A former chairman of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices, he joined the