Kirloskar Oil Engines : SE Letter 9March2022

Date: 9th March 2022
BSE Scrip Code: 533293	NSE Scrip Code: KIRLOSENG
To	To
Corporate Relationship Department	Listing Department
BSE Limited	National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.
1st Floor, Rotunda Building,	Exchange Plaza, C -1, Block G,
Dalal Street, Fort,	Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (E),
Mumbai - 400 001	Mumbai - 400 051
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is to inform you that:

1. Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) 2015 including amendments thereunder read with the SEBI Circular No. CIR/CFD/CMD/4/2015 dated 9th September 2015, this is to inform you that based on the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors in its meeting held on 9th March 2022 have appointed Dr. Ajay Bhushan Prasad Pandey (DIN 07939197), as an Additional Director in the capacity of an Independent Director for a first term of 5 years, with effect from 9th March 2022, subject to the approval of members of the Company. Such approval of the members to be taken by means of Postal Ballot pursuant to Section 110 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rule 22 of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014, including amendments thereunder.

He is not a relative of any director on the Board of the Company. A brief profile of Dr. Ajay Bhushan Prasad Pandey is as under:

Dr. Ajay Bhushan Prasad Pandey (Age 61 years) has completed PhD in Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, USA and Undergraduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He has been one of the most prominent faces of the India's digital era, with extensive influence across finance, technology and infrastructure. Over the last decade, he has been at the helm of several historic and ground-breaking India's reforms in Aadhaar, digital payments, Goods and Services Tax (GST), Customs and Central Excise, Direct Tax,

Disinvestment, and Government Finance. He served as Secretary, Information Technology, Managing Director, Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company and held several other key positions in Maharashtra State. His recent roles include Finance Secretary and Revenue Secretary of India, and Chairman of the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), and CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar). For his contribution to Aadhaar and India's digital growth, he was conferred with the Economic Times Award for Policy Change Agent in 2019. Previous awardees include renowned achievers like Nandan Nilekani, Arun Jaitley, E Sreedharan, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. He was awarded the 'Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals' in 2009 by the University of Minnesota.

He is not holding any directorship in other companies.

In terms of Circular No. LIST/COMP/14/2018-19 dated 20th June 2018 issued by BSE Limited and Circular No. NSE/CML/2018/02 dated 20th June 2018, issued by National Stock Exchange of India Limited, Dr. Ajay Bhushan Prasad Pandey is not debarred from holding the office of a Director by virtue of any order by SEBI or any other authority.

2. Pursuant to provisions of Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013, and Rule 20 of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014 including amendments thereunder from time to time, and Regulation 44 SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, including amendments thereunder from time to time, the Board of Directors in its meeting held on 9th March 2022, has fixed 18th March 2022, as a cut-off date to record the entitlement of the Members to cast their votes electronically for the businesses to be transacted through postal ballot.

You are requested to take the same on your record.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

For Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited

Smita Arun Raichurkar

Digitally signed by Smita Arun Raichurkar Date: 2022.03.09 13:45:27 +05'30'

Smita Raichurkar Company Secretary