Jindal Steel & Power Limited announced that the Board of Directors, on the recommendations of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, considered and approved the appointment of Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Mr. Anil Wadhwa, Mrs. Shivani Wazir Pasrich and Ms. Kanika Agnihotri as Additional Directors in the category of Independent Directors of the Company with effect from July 29, 2021. The company confirmed that Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Mr. Anil Wadhwa, Mrs. Shivani Wazir Pasrich and Ms. Kanika Agnihotri are not debarred from holding the office of Director pursuant to any SEBI order or any such authority. Mr. Ram Vinay Shahi, Mr. Arun Kumar Purwar, Mr. Sudershan Kumar Garg and Mr. Hardip Singh Wirk, Independent Directors of the Company, had been appointed as Independent Directors, with effect from July 30, 2019, for a second term of 2 consecutive years. Accordingly, Mr. Ram Vinay Shahi, Mr. Arun Kumar Purwar, Mr. Sudershan Kumar Garg and Mr. Hardip Singh Wirk have completed their term on the Board on July 29, 2021 and have ceased to be Directors of the Company. Mr. Wadhwa is currently a Distinguished fellow with the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi and serves as an Independent Director and Advisor on the Boards of organizations in India and abroad. Mrs. Shivani Wazir Pasrich is the Founder of the Commonwealth Cultural Forum (a platform for creative people of the world to come together), Chairperson of the Commonwealth Society of India, CEO of SWP Productions and Director of The Study School. Ms. Agnihotri set up her independent practice in 2006 and is presently the Managing Partner at the firm of lawyers ­ `SKV Associates'. She has since represented several large corporates from the real estate, power, finance, infrastructure and public sector companies.