New Delhi:  Senior IAS Officer BVR Subrahmanyam assumed charged as CEO of the NITI Aayog on Saturday. According to the official sources he was allotted to Chhattisgarh cadre and he is the officer of 1987 batch.

He served over the last three decades in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Jammu & Kashmir, along with a stint at the World Bank. He has been the Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry; Chief Secretary of Jammu & Kashmir; Principal Secretary of Chhattisgarh, and has held positions in the Prime Minister’s Office.

On the occasion of taking charge of the public policy think tank of the Central Government, he said I am humbled by the trust and responsibility reposed in me by the Prime Minister and will try my best to rise up to his expectations.