New Delhi, 3rd Jan 2025:

On Friday, Senior IAS officer Faiz Ahmed Kidwai has been assigned the responsibility as the new Director-General (DG) of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Mr. Kidwai is a 1996-batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre and has hold the post of additional secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare,

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved his appointment on Friday.The former DG Vikram Dev Dutt was elevated from the additional secretary rank to the rank of secretary and later transferred to the Ministry of Coal where he took charge on October 21. In the interim, a joint-DG level official at the DGCA, D.C. Sharma, was assigned the additional charge of the DG.