NEW DELHI: Soon-to-be-privatised Air India on Monday got a brand new chairman and managing director with the federal government appointing senior IAS officer Pradeep Singh Kharola to the position. Kharola replaces Rajiv Bansal, who used to be made intervening time AI leader this August for three months when incumbent Ashwani Lohani used to be moved to Railway Board as chairman. A 1985 IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, Kharola is lately Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation MD.
Bansal, additional secretary and financial marketing consultant in the ministry of petroleum and herbal gasoline, used to be given additional charge as AI leader for three months. Kharola is going to be complete time leader and will oversee the transition of AI from a state-owned airline to a non-public entity if the federal government's plan to privatise the Maharaja takes to the air earlier than the following elections.
Bansal, additional secretary and financial marketing consultant in the ministry of petroleum and herbal gasoline, used to be given additional charge as AI leader for three months. Kharola is going to be complete time leader and will oversee the transition of AI from a state-owned airline to a non-public entity if the federal government's plan to privatise the Maharaja takes to the air earlier than the following elections.
IAS Pradeep Singh Kharola appointed new chairman of Air India
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