DTH service provider Dish TV has announced the appointment of a former joint secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as a non-executive independent director.

The board of the company, in a meeting held on Friday, “approved the appointment of Rakesh Mohan as a non-executive independent director with effect from July 29, 2022, for a term of five consecutive years” after getting requisite approval from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

“The said appointment is subject to the approval of the shareholders of the company,” Dish TV said in a regulatory filing.

Mohan is a retired senior bureaucrat. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1978. He has held various positions in his long professional career.

He worked as a deputy collector in Goa; deputy commissioner and then secretary to the governor in Arunachal Pradesh; additional general manager in the erstwhile DESU, Government of Delhi; and principal secretary in the public works department in the government of Delhi.

For five years, he was an additional commissioner in the Municipal Corporation in Delhi, and he worked for the government of India in the ministries of energy (department of power) and commerce.

In addition, he was also a joint secretary in the government of India’s ministry of information and broadcasting. He was principal secretary (education) in the Delhi Administration. After his retirement, he devoted his time to serving as a volunteer at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch.