India, April 1 -- Three months after large-scale flight cancellations by IndiGo disrupted air travel across the country, the chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has been transferred. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has appointed Vir Vikram Yadav, replacing Faiz Ahmed Kidwai.

Yadav, an Odisha cadre IAS officer who replaces Kidwai at DGCA, is his batchmate and is currently serving as additional secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change. Kidwai, a 1996 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as additional secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), according to an order by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).

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