Government searching for chiefs for aviation, airport regulators

New Delhi: As many as a dozen candidates are in the race to head India's airports regulator the Airports Authority of India (AAI), which also runs state-run airports in the country. The organization’s current chairman K. Ramalingam completes his tenure later this year.
The shortlisted candidates include two members of the AAI board, three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers and senior executives with public sector undertakings, according to a senior civil aviation ministry official, who did not wish to be identified because the search process is still on.
The aviation ministry is also in the process of finding a candidate to head aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The last date for applying for the post has been moved several times as previous applicants did not meet eligibility criteria. The current director general, Kanu Gohain, who has been granted two extensions already, is slated to retire by end of this month.
Interviews for selecting the candidate are likely to be conducted by civil aviation secretary Ashok Chawla and officials from the Public Enterprises Selection Board, the government-arm responsible for selecting candidates for top public sector posts, later this month. Among those in the running for the chairman's post are AAI member (planning) V.P. Agrawal, AAI member (finance) S.C. Chhatwal, and joint secretary (ministry of tourism) Amod Kant Sharma.
The selection will then have to be approved by the minister of civil aviation Praful Patel before being sent to the government's department of personnel and training and the appointments committee of the Union cabinet.
08/06/08 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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Categories: Airports Jun 2008, Indian Aviation- In General Jun 2008