IAS Officer likely to head Air India again


NEW DELHI: Air India is likely to get a career bureaucrat yet again as its next chairman and managing director, with the search and selection committee formed by the civil aviation ministry expected to pick an IAS officer to steer the debt-laden national carrier. 

The Prime Minister's Office has given the deadline of middle of next month to the committee, which will be headed by cabinet secretary Ajit Seth and have secretaries of civil aviation ministry and the department of personnel and training among its members, to find a suitable candidate, a senior civil aviation ministry official said. 

"We have formed a search and selection committee to select Air India CMD because the Public Enterprise Selection Board has not been able to find a suitable candidate for the job yet," said the official, who did not wish to be identified. 


PESB had invited applications till September 27 and the interviews were scheduled on October 21. However, the interviews had to be postponed since the PESB could not shortlist candidates. 

"We could not meet the earlier deadline of October 11 and had then sought a threemonth extension from the PMO. Now we have to complete the process before the mid January," said the official. Air India's current CMD Rohit Nandan completed his three-year term on August 11, but he was given an extension till August 21, 2015 or till a new candidate is found for the job. Nandan is a 1982 batch IAS officer of UP cadre. 


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