Rajiv Bansal appointed as CMD, Air India

Senior bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal (IAS:1988:NL) was on Thursday appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India. Presently, he is serving as additional secretary in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved his appointment as Chairman & Managing Director, Air India in the rank and pay of additional secretary.

Bansal would succeed Ashwani Lohani, who was appointed to the post on February 13 last year for a period of one year.

This would be Bansal’s second stint as Air India CMD. In 2017, he was appointed to the post, succeeding Lohani, who was named Chairman of the Railway Board.