The Chairman and Managing Director of Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE), Mallika Srinivasan has been roped in as the Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), as per the order issued by the personnel ministry.
As per an official, it is for the first time that a private sector specialist has been appointed to head the PESB, responsible for appointment of top management posts in the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs).
For a tenure of three years from the date of assumption of charge or until the attainment of the age of 65 years the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has approved Srinivasan’s appointment as the Chairperson of PESB.
The appointment assumes significance as a parliamentary panel has in its recent report wondered as to how the PESB was functioning without its chief and a member.
“The committee is unable to understand as to how PESB is functioning without the chairperson and a member," the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice had said in its 106th report on Demands for Grants (2021-22) of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
The Appointment Committee has also observed that the percentage of female candidates recommended by PESB to top managerial posts in public sector undertakings (PSUs) is abysmally low.
“The committee recommends PESB to carry out an in-depth study and examine whether this gender gap is due to scarcity of competent women aspirants or glass ceiling effect. The committee is of the considered opinion that there is a need to build an equitable work place for women and PESB must make an endeavour in this regard," said the report, tabled in parliament last month.
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