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This is a third extension for the 65-year-old civil servant in the post.
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Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant was on Tuesday given a year's extension till June 2022, according to a Personnel Ministry order.
This is a third extension for the 65-year-old civil servant in the post.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension in tenure of Kant for a further period of one year beyond June 30, 202,1 i.e up to June 30, 2022, or until further orders, it said. He was appointed as the CEO of the National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) on February 17, 2016, for a fixed two-year term.
Kant was later given an extension till June 30, 2019.
His term was further extended for two years till the end of this month in June 2019.
(PTI)