Air India chief Pradeep Singh Kharola has been appointed civil aviation secretary as part of a minor bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Wednesday, according to an official order.
Kharola is a 1985 batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre. He was given charge of Air India in November 2017 named.
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The vacancy had come up due to the superannuation of Rajiv Nayan Choubey on 31 January. Choubey took over as member in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) recently.
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