Selection panel shortlists candidates for NTPC CMD post: Goyal

The SCSC, formed to speed up the selection of full-time NTPC chief, has shortlisted applicants and called them for personal interaction slated for today.
"The SCSC (search-cum-selection committee), after scrutinising the applications...Has shortlisted some applicants for personal interaction on December 21, 2015," Power Minister Piyush Goyal said in a reply to Rajya Sabha.
The panel was set up by the government to shortlist suitable candidates for the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).
"Yes, Sir. Government has decided that to speed up the process of selecting a successor, CMD, NTPC recourse has to be taken to the...SCSC mode rather than the PSEB process," the Goyal said in a written reply.

The minister said that "applications were invited through advertisement in the leading news papers/employment news/magazines/website of Ministry of Power and website of NTPC."
After refusing extension to Arup Roy Choudhury as CMD of NTPC, the government gave the additional charge to the power major's Director (technical) A K Jha.
Choudhury retired from service on August 31.