An Independent Director of the Company, Mrs. Smriti Bellad, aged 50 years, is a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and is actively engaged in managing her family business having interests in the automobile dealership and spares space and has a rich and diverse experience in this sector. She has also worked as a guest lecturer at Karnatak University, Dharwad from 1997 to 1999. She was also involved as a volunteer in USHA's school (school of exceptional children) for three years and pioneered a hand-made soap machine making unit for those children. She is a passionate social worker and has started a programme to serve food to the farmers and also runs a sports program on for the poor children as also several other notable social initiatives.