Vikram Dev Dutt appointed as Air India chief

Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: January 20 2022

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Senior bureaucrat Vikram Dev Dutt has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India Ltd.
Dutt is a 1993-batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre.
He has been appointed as the Air India chief in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
In October last year, the government accepted the highest bid made by a Tata Sons company for 100 percent equity shares of Air India and Air India Express along with its 50 per cent stake in ground-handling company AISATS, the first privatisation in 20 years.
The government had signed the share purchase agreement with Tata Sons for the sale of national carrier Air India for Rs 18,000 crore.