Meet Rajiv Bansal,the interim boss of national carrier Air India

Rajiv Bansal, the Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser at Ministry of Petroleum, has been made the interim Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.

According to the media reports, the decision was taken after the current national carrier chief was appointed as Chairman of the Railway Board on Wednesday.

The 1988 batch IAS officer has been assigned the additional charge fo Air India CMD, “for the period of three months or until further orders, whichever is earlier,” a government circular said.

Bansal has also served in the ministry of electronics and information technology, where he looked after digital payments, IT Act, Aadhaar, and internet governance, a Livemint report said.

A career bureaucrat with over three decades of experience, Bansal has also served as secretary, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC); and joint secretary, department of heavy industries, the report said.

The new Air India CMD is an IIT graduate in civil engineering.