♦ Senior IAS officer Vipin Kumar took charge as the Chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on 28 October 2024. He is a 1996 batch officer from the Bihar cadre.

♦ He was an Additional Secretary in the Department of School Education & Literacy at the Union Ministry of Education.

♦ The Airports Authority of India (AAI) came into existence on 1 April 1995. Currently, AAI manages 133 airports, of which 110 are operational, while the remaining 23 are non-operational.