Air India Chief Rajiv Bansal

Bansal, in a message on Thursday, also assured the employees of providing all the "essential armoury" in carrying out evacuations and running chartered flights amid the pandemic

Bansal has served as CMD of Air India for around a year in 2017 before going back to the oil & gas ministry

Senior bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal was on Thursday appointed as the chairman and managing director (CMD) of Air India, according to a Personnel Ministry order. Bansal, a 1988-batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, is at present 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, the order said, without mentioning further details. The post became vacant after incumbent Ashwani Lohani completed his tenure.

Alertness & response-level of the personnel are tested round the clock: Bansal

Air India made a loss of Rs 3,643 cr on a revenue of Rs 20,613 cr in the financial year 2016-17

Bansal replaced Ashwani Lohani, who has assumed office as Railway Board Chairman