Blitz India Business
NEW DELHI: Air Marshal (retd) Jeetendra Mishra has been appointed the first chief executive officer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. He hails from Deoria district.
Former treasurer Govind Dev Giri has been appointed as its new general secretary, and Mahesh Bhagchandka as treasurer at a meeting held in Ayodhya.
Mishra, who headed the Western Air Command during Operation Sindoor, was selected from a shortlist of three candidates after the Trust’s selection committee scrutinised 5,585 applications. The other shortlisted candidates were Major General Sanjay Pratap Singh Bisht and Shruti Hardwari.
The trust also inducted Madan Mohan Pandey of Ayodhya, Bhagchandka of Delhi and Dr Nirmala Yadav of Shikohabad as new trustees. The meeting was held in two sessions, with the newly inducted trustees joining the second session online, interim secretary Krishna Mohan said.
Pandey is an advocate who represented Ram Lalla Virajman in the Ram Janmabhoomi case, while Yadav is a retired college principal and academician.
Giri said the trust may appoint a joint CEO or deputy CEO if required and would prepare an SOP specifying the CEO’s duties and responsibilities.
