Raminder Singh Gujral
IAS (retired Finance Secretary)
Retired 2013 (day not found); first board seats June/August 2015, so more than one year in any case.. Then Reliance Industries Ltd, Adani Power Ltd, Adani Green Energy Ltd, and others.
The cooling-off rule
The rule: AIS (DCRB) rule 26: one year from retirement.
Rule satisfied on any reading of the dates.
Before and after
Documented
Finance Secretary, Government of India
Interval not dated.
Documented
Documented
Adani Power Ltd
Independent Director (resigned 11 Nov 2022)
has accepted the resignation of Raminder Singh Gujral (DIN: 07175393) and Gauri Trivedi (DIN: 06502788) with effect from the close of the working hours of 11 November 2022.
Documented
Adani Green Energy Ltd
Non-Executive Independent Director (listed in FY2024-25 governance report)
Non-Executive Independent Directors Mr. Raminder Singh Gujral Mr. Dinesh Kanabar
Documented
Jio Platforms Ltd; Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd; Adani Defence Systems and Technologies Ltd
Director (per MCA data aggregator)
ADANI DEFENCE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 25 Mar, 2015 Business Services Active 25 May, 2026 01 Sep, 2026 Director JIO PLATFORMS LIMITED 15 Nov, 2019 Computer Related Services Active 04 Aug, 2023
What the office had to do with the company
None found that tie his Finance Ministry posts to a specific Reliance or Adani decision. The notable fact is concurrent independent directorships on boards of both groups, which are competitors in some sectors (e.g. green energy).
What was said
None sought yet.
Sources
- adanigreenenergy.com
- ril.com
- ril.com
- indiainfoline.com
- adanigreenenergy.com
- connect.adani.com
- tofler.in
- staffnews.in
Dates and filings placed side by side; being listed is not a finding of wrongdoing. Sources were opened on Oct 2026.
Photo: Press Information Bureau / Ministry of Finance, Government of India, via Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India