To , The Members of Aftek Limited,
The Directors are pleased to present their 25th Annual Report together
with the Audited Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st March,
2012.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Amount (Rs. in lacs)
PARTICULARS 31/03/2012 31/03/2011
Turnover 12,124 15,486
Profit Before Depreciation 10,074 10,726
Less:Depreciation 8,856 9,254
Profit Before Tax 1,218 1,472
Less : Provision for Taxation 76 75
Profit After Tax 1,142 1,397
Transfer to General Reserve NIL NIL
DIVIDEND
Considering the heavy investments and restructuring that your Company
is undergoing and the efforts being made to augment cash flow as also
looking at the financial performance your Directors have not considered
it appropriate to recommend any dividend for the year.
BUSINESS REVIEW & FUTURE PROSPECTS
The industry continues to suffer under global slowdown. While your
Company''s performance for the year under review has been rather dismal,
your Board attributes this largely to the continuing slowdown in the
western world, low traction of new clients and business from the West
which has traditionally been your Company''s hunting ground. At the same
time, the Company is very much encouraged by the fact that the
development of new products in different verticals have received a very
strong endorsement from Defence establishments particularly the Indian
Navy, which has approved two major products created by your Company
along with its associates. This certification and approval gives your
Company a huge opportunity in the near, mid and long term periods to
grow and scale up its business with the defence establishment. It is
public knowledge that India''s security concerns have made the Indian
Government commit very large funds for the defence establishments and
the Indian Navy is one of the large recipients of this allocation.
Your Company has received a large number of enquiries also about its
Intelligent Transport System (ITS) since this product is the only one
of its kind in India having end-to-end solutions. Your directors feel
that this opportunity too is large enough to scale up operations in
this vertical in the forthcoming years. Similarly, in the Remote
Infrastructure Management (RIM) arena, Aftek VTS, Aftek Protocol
Converters and other components of VTS are getting acceptance and
enquiries far in excess of your Company''s expectations. Therefore, your
Directors feel that although there has been a downward trend of the
topline for the last few years, the strategic investments made in these
verticals whereby various products were created by your Company are
steps in the right direction.
FINANCE
Due to global slow down the Company has been experiencing reduced
business and slow rate of recovery of receivables giving rise to severe
liquidity situation. Resultantly, the Company has not been able to
repay its debts to the bankers in time leading to initiation of
recovery processes by lenders. While part of the dues have been settled
by liquidating the property of the Company, the process of arriving at
one-time settlement with bankers is underway.
At an Extra-ordinary General Meeting held on 08th June, 2010, Members
had approved by means of a special resolution, the proposal to utilize
a sum of Rs.215 Crores (Rupees Two Hundred & Fifteen Crores only)
standing to the credit of the Securities Premium Account of the Company
by allocating and /or earmarking to adjust product development
expenditure incurred and / or to be incurred, diminution in value of
investments, if any, and loss arising on account of foreign exchange
fluctuations. The Hon''ble High Court of Judicature at Bombay, vide
Order dated 13th August, 2010 had sanctioned the aforesaid utilisation
of Securities Premium Account and the same has been implemented from
the second quarter of last year. While an amount of Rs 196.80 crores
was so adjusted in 2010-2011, the balance amount of Rs 18.20 crores has
been adjusted during the year under review.
As regards 1% Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds Due 2010 (FCCBs) of
USD 10,000 each, out of 3,450 FCCBs issued in 2005, a total number of
2570 FCCBs have already been converted into GDRs/equity shares and
balance 880 numbers of FCCBs continue to remain outstanding as on 31st
March, 2012. No conversion of FCCBs has taken place during the year
under review. As informed earlier, the Company had initiated the
process of re-setting the conversion price of the FCCBs as per the
applicable norms. Approval of Reserve Bank of India for the same was
received vide their letter No. FED/CO/ECBD/ 10308/03.02.775/11-12 dated
October 31, 2011. The holders of the FCCBs vide their written
resolution of 25th July, 2012 have consented, inter alia, to the
revision of Conversion Price of Bonds from Rs 75.20 to Rs 13.76 and
elongation of maturity period from 25th June, 2010 to 21st December,
2012 as well as waiver of events of defaults and interest payments.
Accordingly, the Company has executed a Supplemental Trust Deed on 25th
July, 2012 with Bank of New York Mellon, the Trustees, for giving
effect to the aforesaid amendments. All the outstanding 880 numbers of
FCCBs, if converted into GDRs/ equity shares at the revised conversion
price of Rs 13.76 would result into issuance of additional 2,78,67,733
numbers of equity shares of Rs 02/-each.
DIRECTORATE
Mr Ranjit Dhuru, Dr S S S P Rao and Mr Mahesh Naik retire by rotation
and are eligible for re-appointment. Attention of the members is
invited to the relevant items in the Notice of the Annual General
Meeting.
DIRECTORS'' RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act,
1956, with respect to Directors'' Responsibility Statement, it is hereby
confirmed:
i. that in the preparation of the annual accounts for the year ended
31st March, 2012, the applicable accounting standards had been followed
along with proper explanation relating to material departures;
ii. that the directors had selected such accounting policies and
applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that are
reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state
of affairs of the Company at the end of the Financial Year ended 31st
March, 2012 and of the profit of the Company for that period;
iii. that the directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, for safeguarding the assets of
the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other
irregularities;
iv. that the directors had prepared the annual accounts for the year
ended 31st March, 2012, on a ''going concern'' basis.
FIXED DEPOSITS
The Company has not accepted any Fixed Deposits from the Public.
SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
The Company''s wholly-owned subsidiary, Mihir Properties Private
Limited, has earned some rental income to support its statutory
payments.
The product of Digihome Solutions Private Limited (DSPL) is undergoing
a revision and due to general glut in the real estate sector the
business for the year under review has been rather slack. However, the
order book is very strong and as the pick up of the realty industry
happens this year, with the new and better revised products the company
should be doing much better. In our last annual report we had reported
about possibility of takeover of DSPL by a well-known international
company. We have to report that due to slow down the matter has been
deferred. The said international company has however expressed its
keenness to take participation in DSPL when things ease up by the third
quarter next year. Accordingly, there is cautious optimism in respect
of future of DSPL.
In accordance with the General Circulars No: 2 /2011 No:
51/12/2007-CL-III and No. 3/2011 No: 5/12/2007-CL-III dated 08th
February 2011 and 21st February 2011, respectively, issued by the
Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, the Balance Sheet,
Profit and Loss Account and other documents of the subsidiary companies
are not being attached with the Balance Sheet of the Company. The
Annual Accounts of the subsidiary companies will be kept open for
inspection at the Registered Office of the Company and that of the
respective subsidiary companies. The Company will make available the
Annual Accounts of the subsidiary companies and the related information
to any member of the Company who may be interested in obtaining the
same. The Consolidated Financial Statements presented by the Company
include the financial results of its subsidiary companies. The
statement pursuant to Section 212 of the Companies Act, 1956 containing
details of subsidiaries of the Company, forms part of the Annual
Report.
AUDITORS
At the ensuing Annual General Meeting, Members will be required to
appoint Auditors for the current year and fix their remuneration. M/s.
GMJ & Co., Chartered Accountants, retire at the ensuing Annual General
Meeting and being eligible, offer themselves for re-appointment. A
Certificate from the Auditors has been received to the effect that
their appointment, if made, would be within the limits prescribed under
Section 224(1B) of the Companies Act, 1956.
AUDITORS'' REPORT
As regards the observations in paragraphs (ix) and (xi) of the Annexure
to the Report of the Auditors, these are due to adverse liquidity
conditions.
PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
Details of remuneration paid to employees, as required under Section
217(2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, are set out in a separate statement
attached hereto as Annexure A and the same forms part of this Report.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY ETC.
Your Company endeavors to ensure conversation of energy. However, as a
software company, energy costs constitute a small portion of the total
cost and there is not much scope for energy conservation. Form A as
prescribed under the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report
of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 is not applicable for software
industry. The particulars of Technology Absorption are also not
applicable. The Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo are as per Para
Nos. 30 (d) and 30 (c) of the Notes to Accounts.
OTHER DISCLOSURES
The disclosures required to be made under the Securities and Exchange
Board of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock
Purchase Scheme) Guidelines, 1999, together with a certificate obtained
from the Statutory Auditors confirming compliance, is given in Annexure
B.
Pursuant to Clause 49 of the listing agreement entered into with the
Stock Exchanges, the Management Discussion and Analysis, Corporate
Governance Report and a Certificate obtained from Practising Company
Secretary confirming compliance form part of the Annual Report.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Your Directors would like to place on record their sincere appreciation
of the continued co-operation, support and assistance given by
shareholders, customers, vendors, bankers, service providers, suppliers
and employees at all levels.
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
RANJIT DHURU
CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR
PLACE : MUMBAI
DATED : August 31, 2012 |