The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has appointed senior bureaucrat Vikram Dev Dutt as the new chairman and managing director of Air India. He takes over from Rajiv Bansal, Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, and will head the airline till the airline is handed over to the Tata Group.
Dutt is a 1993-batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union Territory) cadre. Prior to his appointment as Air India CMD, Dutt was appointed as Principal Secretary at Health and Family Welfare Department of the Delhi government in June 2020.
Dutt has also served as principal secretary, finance, government of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the secretary tourism, and the managing director of India Tourism Development Corporation.