Govt to announce appointment of new Trai chairperson by month-end: Sources

The government is expected to appoint the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairperson latest by the end of the month, sources in the know said. The position has been lying vacant for more than three months now.

Four former bureaucrats are in the fray, and have been interviewed after applications were invited for the second time in December, they added.

Among them, former chairman and chief executive officer of the Railway Board, Anil Kumar Lahoti, and former secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ajay Prakash Sawhney, are seen as frontrunners to take over as the next regulator, sources said. When contacted on Wednesday, both declined to comment on the matter.