New Delhi: State-owned Air India Ltd is unlikely to get a chief from the private sector anytime soon after current chairman Rohit Nandan completes his tenure, with the government drafting guidelines seeking to make the position a preserve of the civil services.
The aviation ministry has sent the new guidelines to the department of personnel and training, according two government officials who declined to be named. The post of Air India is likely to be advertised soon. The eligibility criteria for becoming the next Air India chairman requires one to be an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the rank of additional secretary or a joint secretary with a certain level of experience.
Air India has been run by civil servants for over a decade now.
Current chairman Nandan is an IAS officer belonging to the 1982 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Appointed in August 2011 for a three-year term, he has been given a three-month extension by the Prime Minister's Office, which overruled a request by the aviation ministry for a three-year extension.
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The aviation ministry has sent the new guidelines to the department of personnel and training, according two government officials who declined to be named. The post of Air India is likely to be advertised soon. The eligibility criteria for becoming the next Air India chairman requires one to be an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the rank of additional secretary or a joint secretary with a certain level of experience.
Air India has been run by civil servants for over a decade now.
Current chairman Nandan is an IAS officer belonging to the 1982 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Appointed in August 2011 for a three-year term, he has been given a three-month extension by the Prime Minister's Office, which overruled a request by the aviation ministry for a three-year extension.
08/09/14 Tarun Shukla/Mint/Aviation Pros
