With a fresh search panel all set to be constituted to find a suitable candidate for appointment as the next Air India chairman and managing director (CMD), who will be the successor to the current AI
With a fresh search panel all set to be constituted to find a suitable candidate for appointment as the next Air India chairman and managing director (CMD), who will be the successor to the current AI CMD Rohit Nandan, the government appears open to considering eminent persons from the private sector who have considerable experience in the aviation sector and managing an airline, sources have indicated. Among those may be considered if they apply for the post are top executives of private airlines.
As reported by this newspaper earlier this month, the public enterprises selection board (PSEB) had not found any suitable candidate to eventually replace Mr Nandan.
The PSEB — which had interviewed three candidates for the post of AI CMD earlier this month — had asked the government to “choose an appropriate course of further action for selection”.
Sources in the civil aviation ministry said that the PSEB has not been able to find any suitable candidate. The government appears keen to explore the possibility of finding a suitable candidate from the private sector, thereby widening the scope of the proposed new search panel’s efforts to find a suitable candidate.
