New Delhi: Favouring technocrats over bureaucrats, the government is
toying with the idea of appointing an aviation expert — even from the
private sector — as Air India's next chairman. The aviation ministry
started thinking on these lines after its recommendation for extending
the tenure of current CMD Rohit Nandan for two years was rejected by the
Prime Minister's Office. Nandan is a UP cadre IAS officer whose
three-year-term at AI ended this month.
"Nandan is an honest officer, who managed to bring about visible improvement in the airline. His clean image and work at AI were the factor why aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju wanted him to continue. AI is like a patient on ventilator being taken care of by a good doctor. The next doctor has to be exceptionally good or else the patient — surviving on a Rs 30,000-crore lifeline of taxpayers' money — will just die," said a senior official.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had on August 11 declined the aviation ministry's request for two-year extension to Nandan. It, instead, gave him three more months so that a successor could be found in that time.
Read news in full 21/08/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
"Nandan is an honest officer, who managed to bring about visible improvement in the airline. His clean image and work at AI were the factor why aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju wanted him to continue. AI is like a patient on ventilator being taken care of by a good doctor. The next doctor has to be exceptionally good or else the patient — surviving on a Rs 30,000-crore lifeline of taxpayers' money — will just die," said a senior official.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had on August 11 declined the aviation ministry's request for two-year extension to Nandan. It, instead, gave him three more months so that a successor could be found in that time.
Read news in full 21/08/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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