The government has started the search for over two dozen board members for various public sector enterprises such as State Trading Corp, Nalco, Power Finance, NTPC and PGCIL, including at least eight persons for top posts such as chairperson or chairman and managing director.The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), which advises and helps the government in selection of board members at public sector firms, has started the recruitment process for at least 27 board positions of various PSEs, a number of which have already fallen vacant.The positions for which PESB is seeking applications now include Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) chairman and chairman and MD for companies like Hindustan Shipyard, Brahmaputra Valley Fertiliser Corp, Electronics Corp of India (ECIL), Bharat Electronics, Security Printing and Minting Corp of India, MSTC and State Trading Corp.Besides, the board has also initiated the process for filling at least 19 other board positions of Director level at companies like Nalco, Power Finance Corp (PFC), NTPC, Goa Shipyard, Powergrid Corp of India(PGCIL), Rashtria Ispat Nigam (RINL) and Cotton Corp of India (CCIL).Among the chairman or CMD level vacancies, for which applications are being sought, the positions of HAL chairman and CMDs at HSL, ECIL, MSTC, STC and BEL would fall vacant between April-June next year.The search begins•PESB advises the government in selection of board members of public sector firms•Recruitment process started for 27 board positions of various PSEs, of which several have already fallen vacant•Applications sought for HAL chairman and CMDs for MSTC and STC
