The appointment comes at a time when the government is in the final stages of handing over the airline to Tata Sons.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Tuesday appointed Vikram Dev Dutt as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.
Shri Dutt is a 1993 batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories) cadre.
According to an order of the Department of Personnel and Training, he has been appointed as the Chief of Air India in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
The appointment comes at a time when the government is in the final stages of handing over the airline to Tata Sons, which has won the bidding process to privatize the airline. The airline transfer was earlier scheduled to end last month, but has been delayed because of the precedent of certain conditions that need to be struck down.
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