To the Members,
The Directors have pleasure in presenting the 37th Annual Report of
the Company together with Audited Accounts for the year ended 31st
March, 2011.
The Financial results of the year under review are as given below:-
FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Rs. / Crores)
2010-11 2009-10
Profit from Operations (EBITDA) 973.11 363.54
Less / (Add) exceptional items (6.12) (46.49)
Less: Interest 27.13 28.09
Profit Before Depreciation and Tax 952.10 381.94
Less: Depreciation 87.11 80.44
Profit before Tax 865.00 301.50
Less: Income Tax for the year 260.44 64.02
Deferred Tax 11.90 29.10
Profit After Tax 592.66 208.38
Add: Balance brought forward 333.60 202.07
Less: Taxes for the earlier years NIL NIL
Balance available for appropriation 926.26 410.45
APPROPRIATIONS
Dividend on Equity Shares 11.51 23.02
Tax on Dividend 1.87 3.82
Transfer to General Reserve 500.00 50.00
Balance carried forward 412.88 333.61
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
- Gross Sales/Turnover increased to Rs. 2906.78 crores in the financial
year 2010-11, up 70.76% from Rs. 1702.22 crores the year before.
- Exports turnover increased to Rs. 744.33 crores for the year
2010-2011 up 133.50% from Rs. 318.77 crores in the last year,
- The operating profit before exceptional item of the company was Rs.
973.11 crores as against Rs. 363.54 crores last year, giving a growth
of 167.68%.
DIVIDEND
Your Directors have pleasure to recommend Dividend of 25% (Rs. 2.50 per
share) on 4,60,42,276 Equity shares Capital of Rs. 10/- each.
The total dividend would absorb a sum of Rs. 11.51 crore and tax
thereon of Rs. 1.87 crore the dividend will be free of tax in the hands
of recipients.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
The MD&A has been included in the annual report as a separate note.
DIRECTORS
- Mr. Jogesh Bansal, Mr. R.K. Pandey and Mr. V. K. Gupta, retire by
rotation at the ensuing Annual General Meeting, and being eligible,
offer themselves for re-appointment.
Brief resumes of above directors, names of other company(ies) in which
they hold directorship, membership of committees of the Board and their
shareholdings are given in the Notice to the Shareholders.
- Mr. A.C. Wadhawan, Director resigned w.e.f. 4th September, 2010 . The
Board places on record its sincere appreciation of the valuable
services rendered by Mr. A.C. Wadhawan during his tenure as Director of
the Company.
PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES UNDER SECTION 217(2A) OF THE COMPANIES ACT,
1956.
There is no employee who has received the remuneration of Rs. 5,00,000
per month or Rs. 60,00,000 per annum during the year under review.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Company has complied with the mandatory provisions of Corporate
Governance as prescribed in the Listing Agreement with the Stock
Exchanges. A separate report on Corporate Governance is included as a
part of the Annual Report along with the Auditor''s Report on its
compliance.
DIRECTORS'' RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to the requirement under section 217 (2AA) of the Companies
Act, 1956, with respect to Director''s Responsibility Statement, it is
hereby confirmed;
- That in preparation of the accounts for the financial year ended 31st
March, 2011 the applicable accounting standards have been followed
along with proper explanations relating to material departures;
- That the Directors have selected such accounting policies and applied
them consistently and made judgments and estimates that were 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 and of the profit of
the company for the year under review;
- That the Directors have 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.
- That the Directors have prepared the accounts for the financial year
ended on 31st March, 2011 on a ''going concern'' basis.
SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES AND CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
In accordance with the Accounting Standard AS – 21 on Consolidated
Financial Statements read with Accounting Standard AS – 23 on
accounting for investments in Associates, Your Directors have pleasure
in attaching the Consolidated Financial Statements which form part of
this Annual Report and Accounts.
The statement pursuant to Section 212 of the Companies Act, 1956 read
with general circular No. 51/12/2007-cl-III dated 8th February, 2011 of
the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, containing the details of the
Company''s subsidiaries is attached.
In term of the said circular dated 8th February, 2011, copies of the
Balance Sheet, profit & Loss Account, report of Board and the Auditors
of all the subsidiary Companies have not been attached to Balance Sheet
of the Company. However, the annual account of the subsidiary Companies
and the related detailed information shall be made available to the
shareholders of the Company and of the subsidiary Companies seeking
such information at any point of time. The annual accounts of the
subsidiary Companies are also available for inspection by any
shareholders at the head office of the Company and that of the
Subsidiary Companies concerned.
STATUTORY AUDITORS
M/s Kanodia Sanyal & Associates, Chartered Accountants retire and being
eligible, offer themselves for re-appointment. The auditors have
furnished certificate regarding their eligibility for re-appointment as
Company''s Auditors, pursuant to Section 224 (1-B) of the Companies Act,
1956.
COST AUDITORS
The Board has appointed M/s. R.J Goel & Company , Cost Accountants, New
Delhi as Cost Auditors of the Company pursuant to section 233B of the
Companies Act, 1956 for the financial year 2011-12.
FIXED DEPOSITS
The Company has not accepted any fixed deposits and the provisions of
section 58-A of the Companies Act, 1956 are not applicable to the
Company.
BONUS SHARES
During the year as per recommendation of the Board to issue bonus
equity share in the ratio of 1 (one) equity share for every 1 (one)
equity share held and approved by the shareholders, the allotment of
bonus shares to equity share holders was completed on 26th October,
2010.
ENERGY CONSERVATION, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, FOREIGN EARNING & OUTGO
Information in accordance with the provisions of section 217 (1) (e) of
the Companies Act, 1956 read with Companies (Disclosure of Particulars
in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 regarding conservation
of Energy, technology absorption, foreign exchange earnings and outgo
is given in the ''Annexure I'' forming part of this report.
GROUP FOR INTERSE TRANSFER OF SHARES
Details of persons constituting group as required under clause
3(1)(e) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Substantial
Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1997 is given in
''Annexure II'' and forms part of this Annual Report.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Directors express their gratitude to financial institutions, Banks
and various Government authorities for the co-operation extended to the
Company. The Directors also take this opportunity to thanks the
shareholders, customers, suppliers lenders and distributors for the
confidence reposed by them in the Company. The employees of the Company
contributed significantly in achieving the results. The Directors take
this opportunity of thanking them and hope that they will maintain
their commitment to excellence in the years to come.
For and on behalf of the Board
(Rathi Binod Pal) (Samir Banerjee)
Whole Time Director Whole Time Director (Marketing)
Place: New Delhi
Dated: 8th August, 2011
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