51 show interest in AI chairman post

New Delhi: At least 51 people are keen to head Air India, run by state-owned National Aviation Co. of India Ltd, or Nacil, and have applied for the post of chairman and managing director of the airline company two months before its current chief steps down.
Both Vasudevan Thulasidas, 59, current chairman and managing director of Air India, and joint managing director Vishwapati Trivedi, 53, give up their existing roles on 31 March.
A closer look at the 51-people list shows very few aspirants —some from the private sector, some advocates—have any aviation background.
Among those who have applied for the chairman’s position are Trivedi, Air India’s strategic business unit head Amod Sharma, director personnel Anup K. Srivastava, finance director S. Chandreskhar and Raghu Menon, an additional secretary in the aviation ministry.
Others in the running include K. Jairaj, principal secretary to the government of Karnataka; joint secretary with Union finance ministry’s department of economic affairs, Arvind Mayram; principal secretary to the Chhattisgarh government T. Radha Krishnan, P.C. Chaturvedi, director general of Employees’ State Insurance Corp.; chief secretary of Meghalaya R. Chatterjee; and principal secretary to the government of Andhra Pradesh S.N. Mohanty.
A search panel headed by Union cabinet secretary K. Chandrashekhar is expected to shortlist applicants in the next fortnight.
23/01/08 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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