S Balaji Arunkumar new Kolkata Port Trust deputy chairman

KOLKATA: S Balaji Arunkumar, An IRTS officer of 1997 batch, has taken over as deputy chairman of Kolkata Dock System under Kolkata Port Trust ( KoPT) with effect from April 4.

He was senior general manager of Container Corporation of India, Chennai, before assuming his new charge.

R P S Kahlon lost his job as chairman of KoPT after he was arrested on alleged graft charges on March 9 from a hotel in the city.

He had allegedly received bribe from a private firm that handles containers at Kolkata Dock System ( KDS).

M T Krishna Babu, the chairman of Visakhapatnam Port Trust, has taken over as the new chairman of KoPT as an additional charge.