(PTI)
Former bureaucrats including Sneh Lata Kumar and Vinay Sheel Oberoi are among 92 people appointed as non-official independent directors in various Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), the government said on Tuesday.
Of the total, 28 are appointed in the CPSEs under the administrative control of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Chitta Ranjan Biswal, Samirendra Chatterjee, Dharmendra Singh Shekhawat, Jagdish Kishwan, Sankar Chakraborti, Vinoo Mathur and Vivek Rae have been appointed non-official independent directors of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said.
Vinay Sheel Oberoi and J M Shanti Sundharam, a retired officer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), have been appointed on the board of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), it said.
Amar Sinha and Siraj Hussain have been appointed on the board of HPCL, Asha Kaul, Priyank Sharma and S Manoharan in Oil India Ltd, Ganga Murthy in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), and Balbir Singh and Sewa Ram have been appointed as the non-official independent directors in the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, the DoPT order said.
Sunil Sachdeva is appointed on the board of Balmer Lawrie and Co Ltd, Rajesh Kumar Gogna (Engineers India Limited), Jayanto Narayan Choudhary and Rahul Mukherjee in GAIL, it said. Kiran Oberoi and Rakesh Kacker have been appointed on the board of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), Sneh Lata Kumar in Numaligarh Refinery Limited, Desh Deepak Goel and Ranjit Rae have been appointed as non-official independent directors in BHEL, the order said.
