Jayaswal Neco Industries Limited announced at the board meeting held on August 14, 2021, the shareholders appointed Shri Ashwini Kumar as an Independent Director of the Company with effect from 14th August, 2021 subject To Approve the members in the General meeting. The Company also confirms that the appointee is not debarred from holding the office of Director of any Company by virtue of any SEBI order or by order of any other authority. Mr. Ashwini Kumar, a former CEO of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a Unit of Steel Authority of India Limited, is graduate in Metallurgy and a Gold Medalist of lIT Roorkee, batch of 1979. He has an over Thirty-Nine years of multifaceted experience 111 the steel industry with two major Indian Integrated Steel Plants including Board level experience with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). He has experience at higher management level having deep insight into various nuances of a manufacturing industry viz. operation, maintenance, project, marketing, finances, procurement, personnel functions, contracts, business planning, quality and assurance etc. He is a positive, dynamic and result oriented leader known for managerial and technical acumen.