Fortis Malar Hospitals Limited announced that at the board meeting heled on . February 1, 2021, the company approve the appointment of Ms. Shailaja Chandra appointed as an Independent Director of the Company for a period of five years, not liable to retire by rotation. Shailaja Chandra has been a career civil servant (a member of the Indian Administrative Service,) for 38 years followed by a series of post-retirement assignments carrying executive responsibilities. During her long service career in the Central Government, she was posted over three tenures with the Ministries of Defence, Power and Health. At the state level, Ms. Chandra was posted across the country in Maharashtra, Manipur, Goa, Delhi and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.