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.<br /><br />Kharola, a 1985 batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre, was in November 2017 named chairman and managing director of Air India Ltd.<br /><br />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.
