INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS AT AI VOICE CONCERNS

Four independent directors on the board of India’s national carrier have conveyed their concerns over the functioning of the airline to a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in a direct challenge to the leadership of Arvind Jadhav the company’s chairman and managing director. The directors, which include two industrialists, a former chief of the Indian Air Force and a senior industry lobbyist, met the principal secretary to the prime minister, TKA Nair, on Monday to convey their opposition to recent appointments made by the Air India board and what they described as the failure of the management