Govt fails to find a 'suitable' candidate to head Air India

March 04, 2015 00:38

Government has failed to find a "suitable" candidate to head the loss-making national carrier Air India, whose chairman and managing director Rohit Nandan is on a 10-months extension, which expires in August this year.

Public Enterprises Selection Board, which conducted interviews for selecting a new CMD for the state-run airline, did not find any candidate "suitable", and recommended that the Government may choose an "appropriate" course of further action for selection, official sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday night.

The Board had short listed seven candidates, including a senior Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer and a director on Air India board, and had called them for an interview today, sources said, adding however only three of them appeared today before the Selection panel.

Earlier, the civil aviation ministry had sought a two years extension for Nandan, who is a 1982 batch UP cadre IAS and joined Air India in August 2011, the Government allowed him to continue in the top job only till August this year and ordered that the process to chose the new CMD be started immediately.

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