Rajiv Bansal appointed Air India chief
NEW DELHI : The government on Thursday appointed senior bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal as the chairman and managing director of national carrier Air India, which is on the block for privatization.
Bansal, currently an additional secretary in the petroleum ministry is a 1988 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service. In the new post he will hold the rank of additional secretary, said an official statement referring to the decision of the appointments committee of the cabinet
Bansal’s responsibility as the new chief of Air India will include presiding over the restructure of the company and make sure the disinvestment process goes through smoothly while nursing the company back to financial health to the extent possible.
