Top guns queue up for posts in competition panel

Presently, the CCI is headed by acting chairman Vinod Kumar Dhall, who has put in his papers four months ahead of the expiry of his term, which ends in October 2008.

At present, the body has no members. The Competition Act, 2002, which was amended by

Parliament last year in September, would remove the existing monopoly watchdog MRTPC. In pursuance of the amendments, the government constituted an appointment committee for selecting Members and the Chairman of the Commission under the chairmanship of Supreme Court Judge Justice Altamas Kabir.

The other members of the selection committee are secretaries of ministries of Corporate Affairs and Law and Justice and Rajya Sabha MP Nitish Sengupta.

In addition to the chairman and members, the CCI would require around 240 experts in the field of finance, law and economics to become fully operational.