New Delhi Aug 2 (IANS) A day after NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya resigned from the post his colleague Bibek Debroy on Wednesday said while speculations were doing the rounds he did not know Panagariya was going to quit.
Debroy one of the three members of the premier think-tank added that there was a lot of unfinished work at the NITI Aayog and the expectation was that this work would be carried out by Panagariya till 2019.
"Speculation aside normal expectation is not that it (Panagariya s tenure) suddenly ends on August 31. Therefore it will take some time to digest. And obviously there would be some readjustments " Debroy told IANS.
Panagariya an academic on leave from Columbia University resigned on Tuesday to resume his teaching job at the university.
Debroy said that there has so far been no formal communication within the organisation about Panagariya s resignation and that he knew about it only through the media.
"Having said that speculations have been doing the rounds but until yesterday (Tuesday) I did not know he was going to quit " he said.
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