Former tax dept head K V Chowdary joins Reliance board
New Delhi: Former anti-corruption body head and the first tax department chief under the Modi government K V Chowdary has joined the board of India’s most valuable company Reliance Industries as an independent director.
A 1978-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, Chowdary was in August 2014 appointed as chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the top policy making body of the income tax department.
On his retirement, he was appointed as an advisor to the Department of Revenue on issues relating to black money, before being made the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) in June 2015. In a regulatory filing, Reliance said its Board of Directors in a meeting on Friday appointed Chowdary as an Additional Director – Non Executive. “Chowdary is not related to any director of the company,” Reliance said.
