Blitz Bureau
FORMER Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has been appointed as a full-time member of Niti Aayog, the central government’s apex institution for strategic planning and policy advocacy, according to an official notification.
Gauba, a 1982-batch IAS officer from the Jharkhand cadre, served as the Cabinet Secretary — the highest bureaucratic post in the country — for five years, from 2019 until August 2024. “In continuation of Cabinet Secretariat’s notification No. 511/1/1/2024-Cab.
dated 16.07.2024, the Prime Minister has approved the appointment of Shri Rajiv Gauba, IAS (JH:1982) Retd. as Full-Time Member, NITI Aayog with immediate effect and until further orders, on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to Full-Time Members of NITI Aayog,” the notification said. Gauba has also served as Union home secretary, secretary in the Ministry of Urban Development and chief secretary of Jharkhand.