New AI chief: govt may stay with public sector

New Delhi: State-owned carrier Air India may not, after all, get its next top executive from the private sector, as initially suggested by the civil aviation ministry.
The domestic carrier Indian Airlines Ltd and Air India Ltd were merged in August this year into National Aviation Company of India Ltd (Nacil) to be run under the Air India brand.The government approved Air India chairman Vasudevan Thulasidas, 59, to head the new entity with the Indian Airlines’s chairman Vishwapati Trivedi, 53, as a joint managing director through March.
According to a top government official familiar with process but who did not wish to be quoted, the government has since given up on the idea of recruiting outside the government. “It is not possible in the (given) system,” the official said without elaborating. The post, he said, could also be bifurcated and the new person will have to be someone with a public sector background.
16/11/07 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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