Deputation Tenure of K S Rejimon at NITI Aayog Extended by a Year

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved a one-year extension to the central deputation tenure of K S Rejimon, Joint Secretary at NITI Aayog, beyond September 8, 2026, according to the order clearing the extension.

NITI Aayog functions as the government's policy think tank, and its Joint Secretary-level officers work across verticals ranging from agriculture and social sectors to infrastructure and governance reforms, feeding research and policy recommendations into the government's broader planning process, including inputs used in the preparation of national development strategy documents.

Rejimon is a 1998-batch officer of the Indian Statistical Service, a central service whose officers specialise in statistical analysis and data-driven policy work, expertise that aligns closely with NITI Aayog's role in evidence-based policy formulation, particularly on verticals that depend on large datasets to track scheme performance and outcomes.

Deputation extensions of this kind are approved by the ACC when a ministry or department seeks to retain an officer's services beyond the standard tenure, typically because continuity in an ongoing assignment is considered valuable to the work under way, a request that goes through NITI Aayog's leadership before reaching the Appointments Committee for final clearance.

For an ISS officer serving at NITI Aayog, an extension suggests the organisation values Rejimon's continued involvement in whatever data or policy work his Joint Secretary-level assignment covers, rather than rotating in a new officer at this stage of an ongoing project or policy cycle.

The Indian Statistical Service remains a comparatively small central service, and officers from it who reach Joint Secretary-level assignments at bodies like NITI Aayog are relatively few, making tenure continuity in such roles somewhat more consequential for institutional memory than a routine rotation might otherwise be.

The extension keeps Rejimon at NITI Aayog for a further year beyond the September 8, 2026 deadline that would otherwise have ended his current central deputation tenure.