Two prominent West Bengali figures, physicist Gobardhan Das and economist Ashok Lahiri, would serve as members and vice-chairmen of Niti Aayog, respectively, according to government sources on Friday.
Lahiri is a member of the 15th Finance Commission and a former chief economic counsellor to the government.
The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Bhopal is headed by Das. He was a professor and chair of the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi before taking up this role.