Birla Corporation Limited approved the appointment of Shri Anup Singh, Smt. Chitkala Zutshi, Smt. Rajni Sekhri Sibal and Dr. Rajeev Malhotra as Non-Executive Independent Directors of the Company for a period of 5 (five) consecutive years with effect from the date of declaration of the result of the Postal Ballot, i.e. 19 March, 2024.

Shri Anup Singh is a B. Tech (Hons.) in Electric Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. He was associated with ITC for more than four decades and served as an Executive Director on the Board of ITC from November, 1997 to July, 2010. During his stint in ITC he supervised the company's Cigarettes, Foods, Personal Care, Lifestyle Retailing, Information Technology, Agri business and its Nepal Subsidiary SNPL.

He also played a key role in strategy formulation, modernization, quality and technology upgradation in various businesses to continuously enhance competitive superiority. He also served as the President of Indian Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata in 2004 and President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata in 2009. Smt.

Zutshi is a post graduate in Sociology from the University of Rajasthan. She retired from the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) with four decades of experience in diverse fields. She held various posts with the Government of India and the Government of Maharashtra including Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Government of Maharashtra; Principal Secretary, Finance Department, Government of Maharashtra; Projects Chief with the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India; Member of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority, a Statutory Body.

She has led Government delegations to the US, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Japan and about 40 other countries. She has also been awarded a certificate in Applied International Systems in the year 1991 by The Swedish Institute of Management, Stockholm. Smt.

Rajni Sekhri Sibal, a retired Indian Administrative Service officer is the first lady to top the Civil Services Examination in 1986 Batch. She is also a M. A in Economics and Psychology. She is an Independent External Monitor of Securities and Exchange Board of India.

During the first two decades of her career she worked with the Government of India in Taxation and with the Government of Haryana both at the implementation as well as public formulation levels in various fields including Finance, Industry, Urban Management, Education, Environment and Infrastructure. She was responsible for framing India's Milk Policy and was a Director on the Board of National Dairy Development Board (`NDDB'). She was also in charge of International Cooperation and Disaster Management and Disaster Risk Reduction in India.

In her last Government assignment, she was the Secretary Fisheries, Government of India and was responsible for setting up a new Ministry to develop a sustainable Blue Economy and helped frame India's Marine Policy. Dr. Rajeev Malhotra is a PhD (Economics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He holds Master's from Delhi School of Economics and London School of Economics (LSE).

He bridges the world of academics and policymaking. A development economist and a civil servant with more than 35 years of experience, he has worked with the Government of India where until August 2012 he was an Economic Adviser to the then Union Finance Minister of India, responsible for macroeconomic policy for the preparation of union budget and fiscal policy; monitoring and analysis of domestic and global economic trends for coordinating the Government's policy response. He also worked at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva from 2002 to 2008 and prior to that at the planning commission, New Delhi.

As a founding faculty member he helped set up India's first graduate programme in public policy at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy. Despite being a career civil servant, he has remained engaged with research and academic developments in the areas of his interest. As a result, he has acquired considerable expertise in working with new analytical concepts, evidence and quantitative techniques to enrich policy making including budget making at national and international levels.

He has also penned various books and papers and currently he is a visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business, Mohali and Hyderabad, India.