Senior IAS officer Vikram Dev Dutt has been appointed as the new Chairman & Managing Director of national flight carrier Air India.
The appointment comes at time when the national carrier has been taken over by Tata Group. The appointment was a top level bureaucratic reshuffle in government of India.
Here’s look at other top-level appointments today:
(I) Ms. B V Umadevi, IFoS:CG (87), Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs.
(ii) Shri Shashank God, lAS (TG:90), presently in the cadre, as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment.
(iii) Shri Shailesh Kumar Singh, lAS (JH:91), presently in the cadre, as Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises.
(iv) Shri Manish Kumar Gupta, LAS (UT:91), Principal Commissioner, Delhi Development Authority, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs as Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
(v) Shri Chanchal Kumar, lAS (BH:92), presently in the cadre, as Managing Director, National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd., Ministry of Road Transport & Highways in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
(vi) Shri Ashish Srivastava, lAS (MP:92), Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development as Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare by cancelling the order dated 04.12.2021 regarding his appointment as Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat (SR).
(vii) Shri Han Ranjan Rao, lAS (MP:94), Additional Secretary, Department of Telecommunications as Administrator, Universal Service Obligation Fund, Department of Telecommunications in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
(viii) Shri V. L. Kantha Rao, lAS (MP:92), Additional Secretary and Director General (Acquisition), Ministry of Defence as Additional Secretary, Department of Telecommunications vice Sliri Han Ranjan Rao, lAS (MP:94) upon his appointment as Administrator, Universal Service Obligation Fund.
(ix) Shri Pankaj Agrawal, lAS (MP:92), Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat as Additional Secretary and Director General (Acquisition), Ministry of Defence vice Shri V. L. Kantha Rao. lAS (MP:92) upon his appointment as Additional Secretary, Department of Telecommunications.
Lets know more about Vikram Dev Dutt:
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.
- Born in 1969, Dutt who resides in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, has been appointed in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary, an order issued by the Personnel Ministry said.
- Dutt is a 1993-batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union Territory) cadre.
- Prior to his appointment as Air India CMD, Dutt was appointed as Principal Secretary at Health and Family Welfare Department of the Delhi government in June 2020.
However, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal had in March 2021 transferred him and posted him as principal secretary of the Services department.
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.
- He has a B.Tech and a post-graduate diploma in business administration from IMT Ghaziabad.
- He has also served as principal secretary for Finance in the government of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the secretary of Tourism in the government of Goa, and the Managing Director of India Tourism Development Corporation.
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