Noel Tata Voted Against Srinivasan and Singh at Tata Education Trust

Noel Tata
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Tata Trusts chairman, Noel Tata, is known to have additionally voted in opposition to the reappointments of Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh to the board of Tata Education and Improvement Trust (TEDT) final week, sources mentioned.

The phrases of each Srinivasan and Singh as trustees of TEDT have been due for renewal on Sunday. In keeping with the voting sample, former trustee Mehli Mistry, JN Mistry and Tata voted in opposition to their reappointments, whereas Singh and Srinivasan voted in favour of one another.

Venu Srinivasan, Trustee and Vice-Chairman, Sir Ratan Tata Trust
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Although Tata Education is a non-shareholding belief allied to Sir Ratan Tata Trust, the event is important as a result of each Srinivasan and Singh have publicly backed the itemizing of Tata Sons, through which Tata Trusts has a stake of round 66 per cent.

Noel is known to have voted effectively after the others and the adverse votes had already been solid, sources mentioned.

There was no response to an e-mail despatched to Tata Trusts looking for remark.

Sources mentioned that Tata’s vote in opposition to Srinivasan and Singh mirrored his displeasure over their assist for itemizing Tata Sons, a place that’s at odds together with his personal choice to maintain the holding firm unlisted. It additionally highlights the widening rift among the many trustees, with no unanimity and a number of dissenting voices rising on essential points.

Their volte face with respect to the itemizing subject comes after unanimous resolutions taken each by the boards of Tata Sons and Tata Trust to maintain it unlisted.

One of many objects up for dialogue at final Friday’s aborted assembly was the potential elimination of Srinivasan as a Tata Trusts’ nominee on the Tata Sons board, with Bhaskar Bhat prone to exchange him. That assembly is now shifted to subsequent Saturday.

Tata is known to be strengthening his personal place inside the Tata group and the appointments of his son Neville Tata and Bhat final yr, on the board of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust was a transfer on this path.

Nonetheless his try to induct Neville to the SRTT board was blocked by Srinivasan.

Mehli Mistry’s objections to Singh and Srinivasan’s reappointments to TEDT are linked to the governance lapses he alleged in filings made earlier this yr earlier than the Maharashtra Charity Commissioner.

Mistry alleged that Singh obtained commissions from Tata Sons in violation of the Trust Act, whereas Srinivasan misused his place as a nominee director on the Tata Sons board to safe design work freed from value from Gerry McGovern, then COO of Jaguar Land Rover, for Norton Bikes, a subsidiary of TVS Motor Firm.

Printed on Might 10, 2026