Government yet to choose pilot for country’s largest airline

New Delhi: The government is yet to decide on the new chairman and managing director of the National Aviation Co. of India Ltd (Nacil) that runs Air India, the country’s largest airline by fleet size although the incumbent Vasudevan Thulasidas retires in three weeks.
At least nine people had been shortlisted from among the 51 applicants for the post earlier this year, but the screening committee headed by cabinet secretary K. Chandrashekhar could not decide on the two people who will move into a final selection round, after five hours of one-on-one interviews on Thursday, according to people familiar with the process who did not wish to be named.
Vishwapati Trivedi, the airline’s joint managing director who will leave his present post on 31 March, the company’s strategic business unit head Amod Sharma, and director (personnel) Anup K. Srivastava were among those who were interviewed on Thursday.
The five-member interview panel included Chandrashekhar, the Prime Minister’s principal secretary T.K. Nair, civil aviation secretary Ashok Chawla, personnel secretary Satyananda Mishra and chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board N.K Sinha.
The selection panel will meet again next week.
07/03/08 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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