Shri Mansingh L. Bhakta

Shri Mansingh L. Bhakta is Senior Partner of Messers Kanga & Company, a leading firm of Advocates and Solicitors in Mumbai. He has been in practice for over 53 years and has vast experience in legal field and particularly on matters relating to corporate laws, banking and taxation.

He is a legal advisor to leading foreign and Indian companies and banks. He has also been associated with a large number of Euro issues made by Indian companies. He was the Chairman of the Taxation Law Standing Committee of LAWASIA, an Association of Lawyers of Asia and Pacific, which has its headquarters in Australia.

He is a Director of Ambuja Cements Limited, Micro Inks Limited, the Indian Merchant's Chamber, Mumbai, JCB India Limited, Abhijeet Power Limited and Lodha Developers Limited. He is the Lead Independent Director of the Company. He is the Chairman of the Shareholders'/ Investors' Grievance Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company. He is the Chairman of the Shareholders'/Investors' Grievance Committee, the Compensation and Remuneration Committee and the Banking Matters Committee of Ambuja Cements Limited and a member of the Audit Committees of Micro Inks Limited, Ambuja Cements Limited and JCB India Limited. He is Recipient of Rotary Centennial Service Award for Professional Excellence from Rotary International. In its normal annual survey conducted by Asia Law Journal, Hong Kong, a leading International law journal, he has been nominated as one of 'the Leading Lawyers of Asia 2010'. This is the fifth consecutive year in which he has been so nominated.

He holds 3,00,000 shares of the Company in his name as on March 31, 2011.