Dear Shareholders,
The Directors present the 25th Annual Report of your Company together
with the Statement of Accounts and Auditors'' Report as well as comments
of Comptroller & Auditor General of India on the Accounts for the
financial year ended on March 31, 2011.
While India is widely acknowledged as the world''s fastest growing
telecom market, it enjoys around 60 per cent teledensity. Thus, there
is still good margin for growth as far as Pan India operations are
concerned. However, since the operations of your company are limited to
Delhi & Mumbai, where teledensity is much higher we also need to find
out other means to grow. To ride this enormous boom and retain our
strong competitive advantage, we have launched a whole new range of
services with aggressive and innovative tariff plans. These
pathbreaking initiatives will not only broaden our subscriber base but
also offer our millions of customer''s real choice in Landline, CDMA and
GSM (2G &3G) networks.
The advent of broadband has revolutionized back office functions across
the world. As a leader in the converged telecom space, the stage is set
for us to drive this process of change, and to capture the market with
ogr unique network and IT infrastructure facilities, bundled value
added services and strong project management.
We remain committed to build MTNL into a World Class Service Provider,
known for its standards of quality, operational performance and
efficiency and admired for its record of consistently treating value
for all.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
Sources and application of funds for the year 2010-11 are given below.-
(In Million Rs.)
2010-11 2009-10
Income from Services 36739.52 36561.00
Expenditure (excluding 63148.03 84754.69
Interest & prior period Adjustments)
Operating Profit/(Loss) (26408.51) (48193.69)
Other Income 3180.44 14017.23
Interest 4519.46 12.61
Profit/(Loss) before tax (27747.53) (34189.07)
Tax provision for the year 1.91 (3551.14)
Prior Period Adjustments 269.71 (4528.21)
Net Profit / (Loss) for the year (28019.15) (26109.72)
Appropriation
Interim/Proposed final dividend 0.00 0.00
Dividend Tax 0.00 0.00
Transfer to:
a) Contingency Reserve 0.00 0.00
b) Reserve for R&D 0.00 0.00
c) General Reserve (25631.20) 0.00
SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS
Authorised Capital 8000.00 8000.00
Issued, Subscribed & paid-up Capital 6300.00 6300.00
Reserves & Surplus 60164.81 111714.10
Secured and unsecured loan 74556.75 0.00
Deferred Tax Liability (Net) 0.00 0.00
REPRESENTED BY
Fixed Assets (Net Block) 163230.30 165549.76
Investment 4946.58 5095.37
Net Current Assets (38693.47) (87940.76)
Deferred Revenue Expenditure 0.00 0.00
Capital Work-in-Progress 11538.15 11779.60
Note: Previous year''s figures have been re-grouped/re-cast wherever
considered necessary.
DIVIDEND
Since there has been no operating profit during the financial year
2010-11, the Board of Directors of .your company expressed its
inability to recommend any dividend for the year under report.
SUBSIDIARY AND JOINT VENTURE COMPANIES
Your company has two subsidiary and two Joint Vjentures companies
namely:-
(i) Millennium Telecom Ltd. (MTL):
MTL was originally formed by MTNL as a wholly owned subsidiary company
basically for providing internet and other value added services in the
year 2000. In the year 2008, MTL had planned to lay sub-marine cable
(under sea cable) from Indian Coasts to Middle East and then to Europe.
The DOT had directed MTNL to take BSNL as 50% partner in the said
project. MTL being 50:50 Joint Venture of MTNL and BSNL had invited
Global Tender for laying of Submarine Cable. However, because of
decline in bandwidth prices, high cost of laying the cable, various
operational and financial reasons, the Board of MTL had cancelled the
tender in 2010.
The Board of MTL has decided to enter into new line of business which
could be telecom related as well as other areas.
(ii) Mahanagar Telephone (Mauritius) Ltd. (MTML)
MTML is a 100% subsidiary of MTNL. The company is having license for
fixed telephone service, mobile service, international long distance
services and internet services. During the year 2010-11, MTML''s
©customer base has increased from 104,032 (as on 31/3/2010) to its
108,886 (almost full) on 31/03/2011, out of its equipped capacity of
110K. The company is managed by CEO, CTO, CFO and 10 more officers all
on deputation from the parent company. Other operations are managed
through outsourcing.
MTML continued to provide telecom services viz., Fixed Wrieless Phone,
Mobile (Post paid & Prepaid), Internet Services through Fixed Wireless
Phones, High Speed Data cards and International Long Distance Call
Services through CAC,VCC/ACC cards. MTML has achieved a turn-over of
INR 499 Million during this fiscal year 2010-11 compared to the last
fiscal year turn-over of INR 389 Million through these telecom
services(an increase of 28.2%). MTML has earned a net profit of INR 43
Million (before tax) in this fiscal year compared to last fiscal year''s
net profit (before tax) of INR 9.6 Million.(increase of 347%)
During this fiscal year, MTML has completed the High-speed Data
connectivity through expansion of the EVDO network all over the island
by augmenting its resources from 15 BTS to 53 BTS. The Acceptance &
Testing is under progress and the services are planed to be launched in
the first quarter of the fiscal year 2011-12. As the existing capacity
of the CDMA is already fully utilised, the network expansion through
new integrated switch for GSM & CDMA was carried out and the
installation has commenced in Nov-2010 and the GSM services are planned
to be launched in the fiscal year 2011-12.
During this year 2010-11, MTML has constructed its own technical
building of two floors to house its technical installations at a cost
of INR 20 Million. The paid-up capital of the company is enhanced from
INR 854.12 Million to INR 1052 Million.
(iii) United Telecommunications Ltd. (UTL)
The joint venture was incorporated in the year 2001 under the Companies
Act of Nepal. UTL has a total customer base of more than 5, 74,339 in
numbers and the PCOs are 1223. UTLs engineering team follows the O & M
procedures scrupulously thereby ensuring fault free network round the
clock. The Management closeJy monitors the overall performance of the
network. The quality of services, parameters, subscriber complaints,
fault rates, BTS wise traffic and ILD traffic are continuously kept
under watch.
The company is sustaining its entire operations from internal revenue
generation only. Monthly OPEX including the interest payments, IUC
charges, repayment of term loan etc are fully met from its internal
accruals.
During the period ending 31st March 2011 (2010-2011), the company has
reported a net profit of INR 73,456,410.
(ii) MTNLSTPI IT Services Ltd. (MTNLSTPI)
The Joint Venture was incorporated on 31/03/2006 under the Companies
Act, 1956, with authorized Capital of Rs. 50 crores.The main objective
of the JV Company is to provide exclusive data center services,
messaging services, business application services to the identified
sectors of economic activity and thereby also popularizing the
India.in domain.
In order to implement the above said activities, the JV Company has
taken space of around 11000 sq.ft Super Built-up areas from
STPI-Chennai and established a physical infrastructure of Tier-Ill Data
Centre.
The commercial exploitation of the data centre has already commenced in
2009 and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has hosted its Passport
Seva Project through M/s TCS.
Keeping in view of smooth operation and expansion needs of the Data
Center, MSITS created suitable infrastructure components like LT
extension panel, UPS panel, PAC panel and Server DB which were
installed and integrated in the live Data Center. Also MSITS is in the
process of doing the caging in the Data center to support other
collocation requirements.
In addition the existing facility at Chennai, it has been planned to
setup Green Data Centers at Hyderabad and New Delhi. In this regard a
space of around lOOOOsq.ft and8000 sq.ft area have been identified at
Narela New Delhi and Solitaire Building, Madhapur, Hyderabad
respectively. MSITS has floated RFP and identified consultant for
establishing Green Data Center.
DETAILS OF SYSTEM STATUS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2010-11 (31.03.2011)
S.
No Parameters Delhi Mumbai Total
1 Number of switches 352 222 574
2 Equipped Capacity 6346995 6544315 12891310
(a) Fixed Phones including WLL
Fixed Phones 2771995 2677085 5449080
(b) WLL 550000 542230 1092230
(C) GSM 3025000 3325000 6350000
DLC capacity 160152 119006 279158
Digitalization % lines 100 100 100
3 DELS* 4189680 4753433 8943113
4 Details of Net DELs
(a) Fixed Line 1546432 1917537 3463969
(b) WLL-Fixed 27671 89508 117179
(o) WLL-Mobile 109598 52892 162490
(d) GSM 2505841 2693496 5199337
5 Broadband
(a) Subscribers 426772 515545 942317
(b) Capacity (in ports) 786192 836980 1623172
6 IPTV 10172 4018 14190
7 VOIP 2466 2661 5127
8 Internet connection 621083 878007 1499090
(a) Prepaid 20184 818 21002
(b) Postpaid 600899 877189 1478088
9 Payphones 65237 110320 175557
10 ISDN 8796 16936 25732
11 DLC (No) 425 523 948
12 Tax Capacity 150,000 155,200 305,200
13 Tandem Capacity 402,500 432,460 834,960
14 Optical fiber cable
(a) In Route KMs 8129.98 7195.25 15325.23
(b) In Fiber KMs 251610.37 215523.76 467134.13
15 Leased Circuits 14897 39775 54672
16 Replacement of
PCUT Cable (in LKCM) 30.78 15.711402 46.491402
''including WLL fixed, WLL mobile & GSM
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
The Telecom industry in India is undergoing through a volatile phase
and fate of the organization is being written and re-written everyday.
In the recent past, we have identified Human Resources as one of the
strategic partners for rapid business strides leading to success in all
strata of our operations. During last fiscal also we continued Our
endeavors towards world standards HR policies.
We have always considered our Manpower as one of our greatest assets
and this is what differentiates MTNL from its competitors. We have a
strong manpower base of 43311 with wide array of Technical and
Managerial aptitudes and also talented supporting staff having exposure
to state of the art technologies prevailing in Telecom Industry in the
world. As a step towards restructuring of our manpower we have adopted
dual pronged strategy, viz., at one end we have recruited young and
talented professionals in areas like Telecom, Finance, HR, Marketing,
Law and on the other hand we have taken steps towards rightsizing of
the organization by offering VRS. Almost 4000 employees were separated
through 03 VRS, During 2003 to 2006
Thus fine-tuning our existing manpower mix in terms of age,
qualification, and aptitude to meet the demands posed by the changing
Business Environment and to take advantage of the opportunities
presented to serve ever-increasing customer base
TRAINING PROGRAMME
Our company has been conducting training programme for new recruited
executives Trainees in the field of Telecom, Finance, Marketing, HR,
Legal regularly at CETTM.
CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TELECOM TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (CEETTM)
Our dream for having a world-class in house Training Centre furthered
one step when CETTM (Centre of Excellence in Telecom Training &
Management) was awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification. CETTM is slowly
taking the lead role and becoming the nodal center for HRD. Induction
Training programme for newly recruited executive Trainees in the field
of Telecom, Finance, Marketing, HR, Legal have been conducted at CETTM.
Inhouse training programmes are also conducted for executives and non
executives at ITTM (Institute of Telecom Training and Management)
located at Shadipur, New Delhi.
CETTM has started generating revenues by leasing out infrastructure and
providing training to other organizations of repute.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Industrial peace and Industrial harmony based on healthy Employee
Relations, like the previous year prevailed throughout the year. The
Grievances/Issues raised by the employees/Union/ Associations was given
due attention and regard. The cases/issues brought up by them were
settled through regular meetings ad interactions between Management and
Unions/Associations and action as mutually agreed was taken to settle
them. Recently we have signed wage agreement with recognised unions for
a period of 10 years effective from 1/1/2007.
A further step towards Worker''s Participation in critical issues
concerning business endeavors, a special Joint Negotiation Committee
meeting was convened to share the views of recognized Unions on the
various aspects of pur business endeavors and to obtain opinion from
them in further improving the same.
EMPLOYEES''WELFARE
Employees Welfare Schemes like subsidized Canteen, Creches, Housing,
Medical facilities, Scholarships to wards of employees, Group
Insurance, dormitories for females working in night shift etc.
continued and maintained by the Company for its employees. Sports and
Cultural activities were also given priority during the year.
IMPLEMENTATION OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGE POLICY
The company continued its efforts to comply with statutory requirements
in promoting the use of Hindi and has been able to achieve most of the
annual targets set by the Government for implementation and promotion
of Hindi as Official Language in the Company.
IMPLEMENTATION OF RESERVATION POLICY FOR SC/ST/OBC & PH COMMUNITY
Your Company has endeavored to fulfill all the statutory requirements
with regard to , implementation of reservation policy for candidates
belonging to SC/ST/OBC communities and as well as Physically Challenged
candidates.
WORKING CONDITIONS OF WOMEN EMPLOYEES
We are continuously striving towards gender sensitization amongst our
employees. Special care has been taken in case of woman employees
working in night shifts. Also to redress the issues of Sexual
Harassment at workplace Special Cells have been constituted.
The Report of Parliamentary Committee on empowerment of Women and the
working conditions of women in MTNL is received during the year.
Special grants have been sanctioned to Women Welfare Committee at
Delhi/Mumbai.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
MTNL has made a provision of temporary cct 8 Mbps for a period of 15
days for DCP (Communication) for organising Bhagidari Fair at Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi, free of cost in the interst of Public. The actual
cost incurred by MTNL was Rs. 501880/-. MTNL has also taken other
intiatives like free SMS''s regarding pulse polio, other messages of
social activities of general awareness of the public, etc.
MANPOWER STATUS
As on 31st March 2011 your Company had a strength of employees as per
details given next page:-
MTNL Employees working strength as on 31.3.2011.
Group Working SC ST
A 1183 208 52
B 5110 724 105
C 25536 4432 498
D 11459 2656 863
Total 43288 8020 1518
DRM 23 0 0
Grand Total 43311 8020 1518
VIGILANCE
The Vigilance organization of MTNL is headed by Chief Vigilance
Officer. He is ah officer of the rank of Joint Secretary, Govt, of
India. Presently Shri Khushi Ram, IRSSE, is the CVO of MTNL. The CVO is
responsible for complete vigilance administration. During the period
2010- 11 emphasis was laid on efficiency and transparency in working
and various steps were taken to empower customer oriented services of
the organization. Training programmes/seminars and workshops have been
conducted during the period to update the knowledge and skills of the
officers working in vigilance.
The Vigilance Awareness Week was celebrated from 25.10.10 to 1.11.10.
During this week various activities like display of banners, pledge
taking, release of booklets on DO''S and DON''T''S for internal
circulation in MTNL and display of pamphlets related to anticorruption
on notice board were observed.A guest lecture was delivered by Joint
Director (Policy) CBI North Block on 28.10.10 during vigilance
awareness week. As per directions of Central Vigilance Commission, SMS
was sent to mobile users of MTNL for lodging complaint at toll free no
1800-11-0180. Interaction with field staff and customers was
undertaken to further improve the customer services.Information
booklets indicating various services provided by MTNL were distributed
to customers through Sanchar Haats. Monthly vigilance meetings were
held regularly at Delhi and Mumbai to monitor the progress of
Vigilance/Disciplinary cases and remedial action was taken for timely
settlement of the case. Regular inspections were carried out by
Vigilance officers and corrective action suggested whenever required.
The training on Vigilance and Disciplinary proceedings courses were
conducted on 19.7.10 to 23.7.10 and 6.12.10 to 10.12.10. The seminars
on different activities were also organized. To maintain the
transparency in procurement, the e -tendering system has been
introduced.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION
Being a service providing organization, the relevant rules in this
regard are not applicable to your Company.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS
Information with regard to foreign exchange earnings and outgo is as
follows:-
Activities relating to Export and total Foreign Exchange earned and
used:-
(Rs. In Million)
Earned: 37.30
Expenditure in Foreign Currency 34.52
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Your company follows the principles of effective corporate governance
practices. The Company has taken steps to comply with the requirements
of Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement with; the Stock Exchanges. MTNL
also comply with the Corporate Governance Guidelines enunciated by
Department of Public Enterprises, Government of India for Government
Companies. A Report on Corporate Governance has been appended under
separate section titled '' Corporate Governance Report'' and forms a part
of the Annual Report.
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
A certificate from the Practicing Company Secretary regarding
compliance of conditions of Corporate Governance as stipulated under
Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement and DPE Guidelines is attached to
this report.
IMPLEMENTATION ON CIRCULAR ISSUED BY MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS ON
GREEN INITIATIVES IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Company is in the process of implementing the Green Initiative as
per Circular No. 17/ 2011 dated April 21, 2011 and Circular No. 18/2011
dated April 29, 2011 issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs to enable
electronic delivery of notices/documents and annual report to
shareholders and as per the said circular. Henceforth all notices etc.
shall be issued electronically.
DIRECTORS'' RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to the provisions of Sec 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956,
the Directors to the best of their knowledge and belief confirm that:
(i) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable
accounting standards have been followed along with proper explanation
relating to material departures;
(ii) they have .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 as at the end of the financial year and of the profit or
loss of the company for that period;
(iii) they have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the
Companies Act 1956 and for safeguarding the assets of the company and
for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;
(iv) they have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.
PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
During the year under report, there was no employee who was in receipt
of remuneration in excess of limits prescribed under the revised
provisions of Section 217(2A) of the Companies Act, 1956 read with the
Companies (Particulars of Employees), Rules, 1975.
COMMENTS OF C & AG ON THE ACCOUNTS
Comments of C&AG and management replies thereto are given as an
Annexure to the Directors'' Report. ''
DIRECTORS
During the year under report, the Board of Directors of your Company
met frequently. At these meetings, the Board held intensive discussions
on the budget, important financial transactions and various steps to
face the impending competition from private operators both in Basic
Telephone Service and Cellular Mobile Telephony and other value added
services.
Shri Kuldip Singh continued to be Director (Technical) and Chairman and
Managing Director of MTNL, Smt. Anita Soni continued to be the Director
(Finance) of the Company and Shri S.P.Pachauri continued to be the
Director (HR) of the Company respectively. Shri Adit Jain, Shri
V.S.Iyer, Shri Rajan Saxena, Shri T.S.Narayanasami and Shri Vijay
Aggarwal continued to be the Independent Directors of the Company.
During the period under report, the following changes took place in the
Directorship of Your Company:-
1. Smt. Usha Sahajpal ceased to be director of the company w.d.f
30/04/2011.
2. Shri N.K.Joshi, DDG (SU), Department of Telecommunications (DOT)
was appointed as a Director w.e.f. 12/08/2010 and ceased to be a
Director w.e.f 10/08/2011.
3. Shri Malay Shrivastava, Joint Secretary (Telecom), DOT has been
appointed as a Government Director in place of Shri N.K.Joshi ,DDG(SU),
DOT w.e.f. 10/08/2011.
4. Smt. Nirmala Pillai, Senior DDG (WPF), DOT has been appointed as a
Government Director w.e.f. 10/08/2011.
The Board placed on record its deep appreciation for the valuable
services and contribution made by Smt. Usha Sahajpal and Shri N.K.Joshi
during their tenure-as Director on the Board of MTNL.
AUDITORS
M/s. Bansal Sinha & Co., Chartered Accountants and M/s.Goel Garg & Co.,
Chartered Accountants have been appointed as Joint Statutory Auditors
of your Company by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the
year 2011-12 and the board has already ratified their appointment. They
were our Statutory Auditors for the Financial Year 2009-10 and 2010-11
also.
v ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Your Directors take this opportunity to gratefully acknowledge the
help, guidance and support received from Deptt. of Telecom (DoT) and
various Ministries of the Government of India. Your Directors are
especially grateful to its Bankers, all stakeholders and investors
including, ADR holders, for their continued patronage and confidence
reposed in the company.
The Directors would like to express their thanks for the sincere hard
work and dedication of every employee leading to impressive results of
your company. The Board is confident that with the employees'' continued
enthusiasm, initiative and dedicated efforts, your company could face
the new challenges and opportunities arising out of the resultant
competition from private operators in the Cellular Mobile, Basic
Telephone and Internet services and other Value Added services.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
sd/-
(Kuldip Singh)
CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
PLACE : NEW DELHI
DATE: 10th August, 2011
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