President appoints four full time members of 16th finance commission

The centre on Tuesday announced the appointment of four full time members to the 16th finance commission.

The four full time members appointed by the president are former expenditure secretary A N Jha, former special secretary of the department of expenditure Annie George Mathew, executive director of Artha Global Niranjan Rajadhyaksha and group chief economic advisor, State Bank of India Soumya Kanti Ghosh, the centre said in a notification issued late Tuesday.

The Union Cabinet on January 18 had approved the creation of three posts at the level of Joint Secretary i.e. two posts of Joint Secretary and one post of Economic Adviser for the Sixteenth Finance Commission.


Last month the President had appointed Arvind Panagariya, the former vice-chairman of NITI Aayog and a professor at Columbia University, as the Chairman of the 16th finance commission.