State-owned Nalco Wednesday announced that it has reappointed five independent directors on its board Ministry of Mines has reappointed five part-time non-official (independent) directors on the board of Nalco for a period of one year from the date of completion of their existing tenure i e 20.11.2018 or until further orders, whichever is earlier, Nalco said in a BSE filing. The five independent directors are Dipankar Mahanta, S Sankararaman, P K Nayak, Damodar Acharya, and Maheswar Sahu. With the move, the total number of independent directors of the company’s board has increased to eight.