This Article is From Feb 13, 2020

Senior Bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal Appointed Air India Chief

Incumbent Air India Chief Ashwani Lohani has completed his tenure.

Senior Bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal Appointed Air India Chief

Rajiv Bansal has served as the interim chairman and managing director of Air India.

New Delhi:

Senior bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal was on Thursday appointed as the chairman and managing director (CMD) of Air India, according to a Personnel Ministry order.

Mr Bansal, a 1988-batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, is at present additional secretary in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved his appointment as chairman & managing director, Air India in the rank and pay of additional secretary, the order said, without mentioning further details.

The post became vacant after incumbent Ashwani Lohani completed his tenure.

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