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Narsing Rao Leads Race for Coal India Chief's Post

  • Narsing Rao, a bureaucrat, will in all likelihood become the new chairman of Coal India Ltd, with a selection panel of the Pubic Enterprises Selection Board recommending him for the keenly contested post to head the country's largest coal miner, government officials involved in the process said. If approved by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister, Rao, an Indian Administrative Officer of the 1986 batch and the present head of Singareni Collieries Company, will become the first bureaucrat to be appointed to the helm of Coal India.
  • Serving bureaucrats have until now only been stand-in chiefs - the coal ministry's additional secretary Zohra Chatterji has been heading the company since NC Jha retired on January 31. As many as six IAS officers and 16 other candidates were in fray for the job. The chiefs of Western Coalfields and Bharat Coking Coal - DC Garg and TK Lahiri - also applied for the job and were shortlisted for the post last year, but their names were struck down by the Central Vigilance Commission. Belonging to the Andhra Pradesh cadre, Rao has held various positions in the state government such as information technology & communications secretary, rural development commissioner, and collector and district magistrate of Chittoor and Visakhapatnam districts.

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