Premier Explosives Limited announced that the board of directors at its meeting held on November 02, 2016 has approved the appointment of Lt. Gen. P.R.Kumar, as Additional Non Executive-Director with effect from November 02, 2016, to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting. He will act as an Independent Director. He retired as lieutenant General from the services of the Indian Army in 2015. He was commissioned into the regiment of artillery in 1976.