CIL chief set to be KCR’s principal secy

NEW DELHI: B Narsing Rao is set to step down as chairman of the world’s largest coal miner, Coal India, and move to India’s newest state — Telangana — as chief minister-elect K Chandrasekhar Rao’s principal secretary.
A 1986-batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, Rao became chairman of Coal India in April 2012. Before that, he headed Singareni Collieries, jointly owned by the Andhra and central governments.Rao declined to comment but sources close to him said he is all set to move. “The new job would be a ‘quasi-political’ position and pose a big challenge and bring responsibility that comes from being part of a team that would build up the new state,” a source said.
Finding Rao’s successor would be the first big-ticket appointment for the Modi government.