Senior IAS officer Rajiv Bansal on Thursday was appointed Chairman & Managing Director of national carrier Air India, which has been put up for sale by the government.
Bansal, an IAS officer of the 1988 batch, 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.