Mumbai: Ailing national carrier Air India is looking for directors for its personnel, commercial and finance divisions who will also be serving as board members. It is learned that the selection criteria are skewed in favour of internal candidates. According to advertisements issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for these posts, insiders (existing Air India employees) have several advantages over external candidates: age limit is one year more at 56, minimum qualification is relaxable if the candidate is of “sound and adequate background and experience”, etc.
The relaxed norms for insiders have come in the wake of the government burning its fingers last time when seasoned outside professionals had been inducted. Catfights had broken out in board meetings between independent directors, functional directors and government nominees over these appointments and ultimately, three of the four officials were forced to resign. Since then, several top level positions in Air India have been lying vacant.
Sources said the government may prefer insiders this time at “reasonable PSU salaries” to man these key posts. Apart from the three director level positions, vacancies also exist for chief operating officers at low cost subsidiary Air India Express as well as for Alliance Air.
06/07/11 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis
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