New Delhi: Just when Air India was finally showing some sign of stabilization, the airline is yet again staring at uncertainty. The three-year-term of its only successful-in-recent-years chairman, Rohit Nandan, is ending on August 11 — exactly a month after the airline joins Star Alliance. The aviation ministry is so far not learnt to have decided on the succession plan in the airline as the search for a full-time CMD has not begun.
UPA-II set an example of running important aviation agencies by giving additional charge to joint secretaries. This way, the aviation minister in the latter half of UPA II directly ran those headless agencies through his trusted officers. Bureau for Civil Aviation Security and Pawan Hans have been headless for years. Airports Authority of India is handled by a JS, although the process for appointing a chairman is now on. And directorate general of civil aviation got a full-time head in January only as the US had downgraded it. The term of airport economic regulatory authority's chairman is ending next week and no successor is in sight there too.
09/07/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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UPA-II set an example of running important aviation agencies by giving additional charge to joint secretaries. This way, the aviation minister in the latter half of UPA II directly ran those headless agencies through his trusted officers. Bureau for Civil Aviation Security and Pawan Hans have been headless for years. Airports Authority of India is handled by a JS, although the process for appointing a chairman is now on. And directorate general of civil aviation got a full-time head in January only as the US had downgraded it. The term of airport economic regulatory authority's chairman is ending next week and no successor is in sight there too.
09/07/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
