The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has appointed senior bureaucrat Vikram Dev Dutt as the chairman and managing director of Air India.
He takes over from Rajiv Bansal, Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, and will be in charge of Air India till the airline is handed over to the Tata Group.
Reports suggest that the loss-making national carrier Air India's takeover by Tata Group may be delayed, and would materialise only by the end of this month. The completion of procedures is reportedly taking longer than expected, which is delaying the takeover process.
Dutt is a 1993-batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union Territory) cadre.
In 2020, Dutt assumed the charge of Delhi's Health and Family Welfare Department as principal secretary to push the government's measures to contain the COVID-19 cases in the national capital.
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