In a major development, Ashwani Lohani has been appointed as the CMD of Air India. Notably, Lohani had earlier taken charge at the state-run carrier as its Chairman and Managing Director in August 2015, even as the airline was facing various unresolved issues related to the Air India-Indian Airlines merger. Recently, he retired as the Railway Board Chairman on December 31st 2018. Lohani was appointed chairman of the Railway Board after A K Mital resigned in August 2017, following the derailment of the Kaifiyat Express near Auriya in Uttar Pradesh. He has been appointed on a contract basis, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
Notably, Ashwani Lohani is an Retired IRSME officer, and held significant posts including former Chairman of the Indian Railway Board and former Chairman & Managing Director of Air India. He started his career as an assistant electrical engineer in February, 1982, according to a PTI report. His appointment comes at a time when the government is looking to divest its stake in the state-run carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a major development, Ashwani Lohani has been appointed as the CMD of Air India. Notably, Lohani had earlier taken charge at the state-run carrier as its Chairman and Managing Director in August 2015, even as the airline was facing various unresolved issues related to the Air India-Indian Airlines merger. Recently, he retired as the Railway Board Chairman on December 31st 2018. Lohani was appointed chairman of the Railway Board after A K Mital resigned in August 2017, following the derailment of the Kaifiyat Express near Auriya in Uttar Pradesh. He has been appointed on a contract basis, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}