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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited · HAL
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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has informed the Exchange regarding the appointment of Shri Anindya Biswas as a Part-time Official Director (Government Nominee Director) and the cessation of Dr. K Rajalakshmi Menon as a Non-Executive Director.
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CO/SEC/4(7)/2026-27/ BSE & NSE Filing/40 7th October, 2026
BSE Limited National Stock Exchange of India Ltd
Listing Department Listing Department
Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, Exchange Plaza, 5th Floor, Plot No C/1,
Dalal Street, G Block, Bandra-Kurla Complex,
Mumbai – 400 001 Bandra (E), Mumbai – 400051
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Sub: Outcome of the Board Meeting - Change in Directorate
Ref: BSE Scrip Code: 541154, NSE Symbol: HAL
In terms of Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and
Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, we would like to inform that,
based on the Ministry of Defence, Department of Defence Production,
Government of India Letter No. 49016/03/2016-D (HAL-III) dated 1st
October, 2026, the Board of Directors of the Company has approved the
appointment of Shri Anindya Biswas, DS & DG (Aero), DRDO as Part-time
Official Director (Government Nominee Director) of the Company in place
of Dr. K Rajalakshmi Menon w.e.f. 7th October, 2026 until further orders,
subject to the approval of shareholders in General Meeting.
2. Other required details are as follows:
A. Cessation of Director
a) Name : Dr. K Rajalakshmi Menon
b) DIN : 10776165
c) Designation : Non-Executive Director [Government Nominee
Director]
d) Date of Cessation : 7th October, 2026
e) Period served : 13th September, 2024 to 7th October, 2026.
f) Detailed reason of
resignation : NA (Being nominee director, nomination was
withdrawn by MoD)
g) Confirmation regarding
reason for resignation: NA
B. Appointment of Director
a) Name : Shri Anindya Biswas
b) DIN : 11987154
c) Designation : Non-Executive Director [Government Nominee
Director]
d) Date of appointment : 7th October, 2026
e) Term of appointment : from 7th October, 2026, till further orders of
Ministry of Defence.
f) Inter-se relationship : He is not related to any other director of the
Company.
g) Affirmation : He is not debarred from holding the office of
director by virtue of any SEBI order or any other
such authority.
3. Brief profile of Shri Anindya Biswas is enclosed herewith as Annexure.
4. The meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company commenced at
1400 hours and concluded at 1530 hours.
5. This is for your information and record, please.
Thanking you,
Yours Faithfully
For Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd
(Shailesh Bansal)
Company Secretary & Compliance Officer
Annexure-I
Shri Anindya Biswas, DS & Director RCI is renowned for his R&D efforts towards
indigenous design, development and production hand holding of various state of
the art avionic sub-systems for different indigenous missiles developed in the
country.
He joined DRDO in the year 1992 and since then he has played a vital role
towards the indigenous design & development of several missile systems in
programme, mission and technology development modes. These include glide
bombs, anti-radiation missiles, surface to air missiles, very short-range air
defence, ballistic missile defence, anti-ship missiles, surface to surface long
range missiles, unmanned aerial vehicle launched missiles, anti-tank missiles,
etc.
He has worked towards establishing an agile work culture for the development of
several enabling and disruptive technologies required for futuristic weapon
systems. Several new efforts including task teams with a pool of young scientists,
continued academia support through resident postgraduate students & regular
startups/ entrepreneur outreach etc are contributing significantly in realizing cost
effective & futuristic solutions in short duration of time.
For his distinguished contributions, he has been conferred with DRDO Young
Scientists Award and Scientist of the Year Award. He has done his graduation in
Electronics and Telecommunications from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur
and M. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
He is not related to any other director of the Company and does not hold shares
in the Company.