New Delhi, July 22 -- The government on Wednesday appointed seasoned bureaucrat Anurag Jain, a former secretary in the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) and the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) as chief executive of NITI Aayog.

Jain, a 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, brings nearly four decades of experience in industrial policy, infrastructure development, logistics, finance and state administration to the government's apex public policy think tank.

According to an order issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT) on Wednesday, the appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) approved his appointment with effect from the date he...