Board approves appointment of Mr. Somnath Arora as Plant Head and Senior Management Personnel

Jindal Supreme (India) Ltd's Board approved the appointment of Mr. Somnath Arora as Plant Head (Hisar, Haryana plant) and Senior Management Personnel, effective 8 October 2026, on the Nomination and Remuneration Committee's recommendation.

Thu 8 Oct 2026

Appointee

Mr. Somnath Arora

Role

Plant Head (Hisar, Haryana plant) and Senior Management Personnel

Effective Date

8 October 2026

What the company informed the exchanges

• Appointment of Mr. Somnath Arora as Plant Head of the company, with effect from 8 October 2026.
• Place of posting: the company's factory situated at Hisar, Haryana.
• He will also be designated as Senior Management Personnel (SMP) of the company.
• The Board approved the appointment at its meeting held on Wednesday, 8 October 2026, based on the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.
• The meeting commenced at 11:45 A.M. and concluded at 12:20 P.M.

Who is Mr. Somnath Arora:

• He is a B. Tech graduate with over 30 years of extensive professional experience, particularly in the iron and steel industry.
• The disclosure records that relationships between directors, in the case of appointment of a director, are not applicable.

What this means for investors

This is an announcement of a leadership appointment at the operating level. Mr. Somnath Arora joins as Plant Head of the Hisar factory and is also classified as Senior Management Personnel, a category of senior executives whose appointment the company informs the exchanges about.

The role covers running one of the company's manufacturing locations. The company describes itself as a manufacturer of steel tubes (black, galvanised, hollow section), DDF, SDF, metal beam and crash barrier.

The disclosure identifies the appointee's professional experience of over 30 years, largely in the iron and steel industry, as his brief profile. It does not carry any commercial terms, capital expenditure, capacity or financial detail, since the announcement is about the person and the position rather than about a transaction.

For a retail reader, the takeaway is the identity and role of the new plant-level senior executive: a plant head appointment is a routine change in management and its effect on day-to-day operations would depend on how the role is executed, which cannot be judged from this disclosure alone.

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