(THE NEWSMAN OF INDIA)
The government of India has appointed Life Insurance Corporation’s (LIC) senior-most Managing Director Hemant Bhargava as the insurer’s interim chairman, in place of V K Sharma who retired on Monday.

Meanwhile, the government has already initiated process to select regular chairman and managing director of LIC.

Bhargava was appointed as the managing director (MD) of LIC in February 2017, the insurer said in a statement. Apart from Bhargava, there are two more MDs of LIC currently.

It is expected that the incumbents who will be appearing for the interview for LIC Chairman which is scheduled for 4th January 2019 are Vipin Anand, Zonal Manager,LIC Mumbai, K Ganesh, ED, Customer Relationship Management LIC, Mukesh Kumar Gupta, ED, Personnel LIC, M R Kumar, Zonal Manager, Delhi LIC, HS Shashi Kumar, Zonal Manager LIC, Bhopal, Raj Kumar, CEO of LIC Mutual Fund, TC Susheel Kumar, Zonal Manager LIC, Hyderabad and S Nallakuttalam. All of them are on executive director rank.