Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited announces appointment of five Independent Directors on Board

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Source: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

The appointment is for a period of three years from the date of notification of their appointment or until further orders

December 2021: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) has announced the appointment of Pradeep Vishambhar Agrawal, Ghanshyam Sher, Dr. (Smt) Aiswarya Biswal, Prof. Bhagwati Prasad Saraswat and Gopal Krishna Agarwal, as Independent Directors on the Board for a period of three years from the date of notification of their appointment or until further orders. Accordingly, they are appointed as Directors on the Board w.e.f. 12.11.2021.

Pradeep Vishambhar Agrawal is a Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary. His fields of specialization are Finance, Business and Administration. He is a Managing Director in a pharmaceutical company and is in the Board of various other companies.

Ghanshyam Sher is M.Com, M.A. in Political Science, M.A. in Economics and L.L.B. He is an Advocate. He specializes in Legal advice and Social Service. He has gained administrative experience through various public associations. He has been honored with various awards by renowned personalities.

Dr. (Smt.) Aiswarya Biswal did her Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Utkal University and masters in Management from University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. She received honours in Strategic Management, which encouraged her to pursue her research in extraordinary leadership in University of Liverpool. As a Dentist, she took keen interest in organising various dental camps for the underprivileged and marginalised community both in urban and rural sector.

Prof. (Dr.) Bhagwati Prasad Saraswat is M.Com, (Gold Medalist). He has done his Ph.D in Financial Evolution of Drugs & Pharmaceutical Companies in India. He was a Dean and Head of Faculty of Commerce/Department of Commerce, Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer and has teaching experience of more than 38 years. He has held various academic and administrative responsibilities during his academic career.

Gopal Krishna Agarwal is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI). He has done his post graduate in MA economics and graduation in BCom (Hons). He is an Economic thinker and writes extensively for newspaper, financial journals and delivers lectures in seminars & conferences. He has co-authored a book ‘Water an Element of Life: Price Sensitivity and Consumption by the Marginalised' published by Bloomsbury India. He was a Member of Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), a think tank of GoI. He was a member of the Task Force on MSME of the Ministry of Finance and Former Director on the Board of Bank of Baroda (BOB) & North Eastern Electric Power Co. (NEEPCO). He was government nominee on the Central Council of The Institute of company secretaries of India (ICSI). He is an independent director on the board of ICSI (IIP).

About Bharat Petroleum: Bharat Petroleum’s Refineries at Mumbai & Kochi and subsidiary Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd., at Bina, Madhya Pradesh have a combined refining capacity of around 35.3 MMTPA. Its marketing infrastructure includes a network of installations, depots, retail outlets, aviation service stations and LPG distributors. Its distribution network comprises over 19,000 Retail Outlets, over 6,100 LPG distributorships, 733 Lubes distributorships, 123 POL storage locations, 53 LPG Bottling Plants, 60 Aviation Service Stations, 3 Lube blending plants and 4 cross-country pipelines.

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