New Delhi, March 18 -- Noel Tata is in favour of extending Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran's tenure by two years instead of the usual five, a duration the Tata Trusts chairman believes will be sufficient to institute a new leadership structure and succession process at India's largest conglomerate.

According to two executives aware of the matter, the Tata Trustees are expected to discuss a fresh truncated term for Chandrasekaran, as well as leadership structure for Tata Sons with separate roles of chairman, chief executive officer and managing director (CEO and MD) and deputy CEO.

The board of Tata Sons, which appointed Chandrasekaran as chair first in 2017 and extended it in 2022, deferred a decision on granting another ter...