The government will soon need to start a headhunting exercise to fill up top positions across key financial regulatory bodies, including those overseeing pension, insurance, banking and financial reporting. This comes as several of these roles are currently vacant or will soon be available.
For the chairperson’s post in the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai), the department of financial services (DFS) in the Ministry of Finance will be accepting applications till April 6. The selection process will begin thereafter. The term of its last chairperson Debashish Panda ended on March 13.
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