NEW DELHI: The govt has reconstituted the executive council of the Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML) with former principal secretary to the PM Narendra Modi, Nripendra Mishra, getting another five-year term as its chairperson. The new members include former Union minister Smriti Irani, retired Army General Syed Ata Hasnain, former NITI Aayog chairperson Rajiv Kumar and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur.
The tenure of the members nominated to the society and council is five years or “until further orders, whichever is earlier”. The term of the previous executive council expired on Monday.
Irani’s inclusion is significant as it comes months after she faded from the limelight following her defeat in the Lok Sabha polls in Amethi.
The council is led by PM Modi as its president and defence minister Rajnath Singh as vice president. Union ministers Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Dharmendra Pradhan, Gajendra Shekhawat and Ashwini Vaishnav are members in the panel. The council has been expanded to 34 members in place of 29 in the previous council.
The list of new members also includes the member of Economic Advisory Council to PM (EAC-PM), Sanjeev Sanyal, Sanskar Bharati’s Vasudev Kamath, academics Waman Kendre and Harmohinder Singh Bedi and educationist Chamu Krishna Shastry. Some of the other members added to the council include eminent archaeologist KK Mohammad and director general of National Museum, BR Mani.
Some of the earlier members excluded from the new list include former minister V Muraleedharan, former Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, journalist Rajat Sharma, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts president Ram Bahadur Rai and Anirban Ganguly, director of Dr Shyama Parasad Mookherjee Research Foundation.
Secretaries of department of expenditure, culture, housing and urban affairs, Chairman-University Grants Commission, representative of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund and Directo PMML are ex-officio members.
