Deccan Cements Limited through its Postal Ballot appointed Mr. Paturi Srinivasa Rao to the office of Independent Director of the Company for a term of 5 consecutive years with effect from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029. Date of Birth is 17 July 1967. Qualification is FCS, LLB, M.Com.

Brief profile: Mr. P S Rao is the founder partner of M/s P S Rao & Associates. Mr. P. S. Rao has more than two and half decades of experience in Corporate Laws and other Secretarial & Legal assignments with special focus on public offerings, takeovers, mergers and amalgamations, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, capital market transactions, due diligence audits and secretarial audits. Mr. Rao also deals with domestic and foreign joint ventures, foreign collaborations, and other capital market related transactions.

Mr. P. S. Rao is advisor to the Board of Directors /Management committees for various listed and unlisted companies in South India. Mr. P. S. Rao is Designated Partner of M/s. P S Rao Corporate Advisors, LLP, which specializes in the areas of mergers, amalgamations, liquidation proceedings and insolvency proceedings.