The Union Finance Ministry has reconstituted the Banks Board Bureau (BBB) and appointed Bhanu Pratap Sharma as its chairman, replacing former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai.
Sharma was former the chairman of recruitment and assessment centre of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) and former Principal Secretary (Finance) in the Bihar government.
The body was also reconstituted and the government also appointed VedikaBhandarkar, P. Pradeep Kumar and Pradeep Shah as the new members.
Banks Board Bureau (BBB)
The BBB, which has the responsibility of selecting members, including MDs & CEOs of public sector banks, started functioning in April 2016 with Mr. Rai at the helm.
The BBB was set up on the recommendations of a committee headed by banker P J Nayak.
Its mandate is to improve PSB governance, recommend on selection of chiefs of government-owned banks and financial institutions and to help banks in developing strategies and capital raising plans.
It is based in Mumbai, at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The chairman and its committee members had a two-year term, which ended in March 2018.