GRSE · Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited · BSE · Filed 6 Oct · 1 min read

President Appoints Two Independent Directors to GRSE Board

The Ministry of Defence has named Dharminder Kumar and Laishram Meenabanta Singh as Part-time Non-Official (Independent) Directors on GRSE's board for three years.

What was filed

Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) told the exchanges that the President of India has appointed two Part-time Non-Official Directors — designated as Independent Directors — to its board. The appointments follow a Ministry of Defence letter dated 05 October 2026, received by the company on 06 October 2026. The appointees named in the filing are Shri Dharminder Kumar and Shri Laishram Meenabanta Singh.

Terms and timing

Each appointment runs for three years or until further orders, whichever is earlier. The company said the appointments take effect from the date Director Identification Numbers (DIN) are allotted to the two individuals, so the effective date is not yet fixed. GRSE added that it will separately intimate the effective date and submit brief profiles of both directors once available.

Context for a holder

GRSE is a defence public-sector shipbuilder whose board composition is shaped through the Ministry of Defence. As a government company, its nominee and independent director appointments are made by the President of India. This filing records the induction of two independent directors but does not yet carry their profiles or the operative effective date, both of which the company has said will follow.

Term of appointment: Three years or until further orders, whichever is earlier
Number of directors appointed: 2 Independent Directors

Board changes at a government-owned defence firm are governance events that holders typically track; this one remains procedurally incomplete, with the effective date and director profiles promised in a subsequent intimation.