DEAR MEMBERS,
The Directors have pleasure in presenting the Twenty Second Annual
Report together with the Audited Accounts of the Company for the
financial year ended March 31, 2011.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
A brief overview on Consolidated and Stand-Alone Financial Performance
for the financial year ended March 31, 2011 are as follows:
A CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
( Rs. in mio)
Particulars 31.03.11 31.03.10
Gross Receipts & Other Income 15447.45 10147.07
Profit before Interest,
depreciation & tax 2376.80 2100.94
Less: Interest 1047.39 1021.18
Less: Depreciation 47.56 45.45
Profit Before Tax 1281.85 1034.31
Less: Provision for tax 354.73 (91.23)
Profit after tax 927.12 1125.54
Add: Minority Adjustment 0.01 (0.11)
Profit after Tax after minority
adjustments 927.13 1125.43
Add: Profit brought forward
from last year 6012.27 4986.93
Add: Adjustments 45.69 (0.09)
Profit available for
appropriation 6985.09 6112.27
Appropriations
Less: Transferred to General
Reserves 100 100
Less: Transferred to Debenture
Redemption Reserve 150.82 Nil
Less: Share in proposed dividend
and dividend tax on preference
shares in Joint Venture Company 0.01 Nil
Balance Carried to
Balance Sheet 6734.26 6012.27
B STAND-ALONE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
(Rs. in mio)
Particulars 31.03.11 31.03.10
Gross Receipts & Other Income 11604.15 8073.46
Profit before Interest,
depreciation & tax 1870.69 1831.29
Less: Interest 1014.47 1015.16
Less: Depreciation 41.31 41.21
Profit Before Tax 814.91 774.92
Less: Provision for tax 189.86 (132.80)
Profit after Tax 625.05 907.72
Add : Profit brought forward
from last year 4153.03 3345.31
Profit available for appropriation 4778.08 4253.03
Appropriations
Less: Transferred to General
Reserves 100 100
Less: Transferred to Debenture
Redemption Reserve 150.82 Nil
Balance Carried to Balance Sheet 4527.26 4153.03
DIVIDEND
Keeping in view future fund requirements of the Company, your Directors
do not recommended any dividend for the financial year ended March
31,2011.
OPERATIONS AND OUTLOOK
Your Company''s consolidated revenues grew by 52% during the year. On
Consolidated basis, we registered revenue of Rs.15447.45 mio, whereas
our Profit before Tax and Net Profit stood at Rs.1281.85 mio and
Rs.927.12 mio respectively. On standalone basis, our revenues grew by
44% to reach Rs.11604.15 mio whereas our Profit before Tax and Net
Profit stood at Rs.814.91 mio and Rs.625.05 mio respectively.
We witnessed an encouraging spurt in demand across our various projects
during the financial year 201 0-11. The projects driving the demand
included Omaxe City, New Chandigarh for residential plots and
independent floors; Omaxe City, Jaipur for residential plots; Omaxe
City, Indore for residential plots; Omaxe Waterfront Hi-Tech City,
Allahabad for NAFFHIL Homes, LIG and EWS Homes; Omaxe City, Bhiwadi for
''My Homes''; Omaxe Residency, Lucknow for the group housing; India Trade
Tower, Mullapur (Punjab) for commercial space and Omaxe City, Rohtak
for shopping and office spaces.
With the increasing interest and demand for various projects during the
year, your Company quickly embarked upon consolidation with
accelerating the execution of its ongoing projects and completed
various projects. The year was marked with inflationary pressure on the
input front and competitive pressure on realisation front. The Company
chose to focus on improving recoveries, enhancing cash flow allocations
and reducing the debt. We are happy to note the impact of these
initiatives on a strengthened balance sheet at the end of the financial
year 2010-11.
Infrastructure and Construction Projects:
Your company and its subsidiaries have a combined order book of
Rs.13640 mio for various third party infrastructure development and
construction activities.
During the financial year 201 0-11, we bagged various projects
including Construction of a Housing Complex for AFNHB at Meerut for a
contract value of Rs.883.41 mio, Construction of Residential
Accommodation at Indore and Nagrota for a contract value of Rs.3306.75
mio, Construction of a 200 ft. wide road with bridges & culverts
(Kurali to Siswan) at Mohali for a contract value of Rs.704.28 mio,
Construction of Dwelling Units at Nasik for a contract value of Rs.1
358.40 mio, Construction of a Housing Complex for AFNHB at Bhuvneshwar
for a contract value of Rs.539.61 mio and Construction of a Medical
College Complex at AIIMS, Rishikesh for a contract value of Rs.42.50
mio.
Your Company continues to focus on quality Infrastructure and
construction projects, which proves to be a vital tool to further
strengthen our order book.
DEBENTURES
Details of Non Convertible Redeemable Debentures:
No fresh debentures were issued during the Financial Year.
Further, outstanding Non convertible redeemable debentures of Series J
and Series G issued to LIC Mutual Fund amounting to Rs.500 mio in
aggregate and of Series L issued to LIC of India amounting to Rs.1 000
mio are redeemable as per their current terms of redemption/
negotiations.
PUBLIC DEPOSITS
During the financial year the Company has not accepted any fresh public
deposits and is in compliance to the provisions of Section 58A,58AA or
any other relevant provisions of the Act and the Companies (Acceptance
of Deposits) Rules,1 975. There were 16 cases of unclaimed deposits
amounting to Rs.19,08,485/- as on March 31, 2011, and the amount
remained unclaimed. Periodical reminders are being sent to the deposit
holders.
AUDIT COMMITTEE
The Audit Committee has been constituted in terms of Section 292A of
the Companies Act, 1 956 read with Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement.
It consists of four members namely Mr. Prahlad Kumar Gupta, Independent
Director, Mr. Devi Dayal, Independent Director, Mr. Padmanabh
Pundarikray Vora, Independent Director and Mr. Rohtas Goel, Chairman
and Managing Director of the Company. Mr. Prahlad Kumar Gupta,
Independent Director is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. All
members of the Audit Committee possess sufficient knowledge and
experience in the field of Finance and Accounts.
AUDITORS
The Auditors, M/s Doogar & Associates, Chartered Accountants,
Registration No. 000561 N hold office until the conclusion of the
forthcoming Annual General Meeting and offer themselves for
re-appointment. Certificate from the Auditors has been received to the
effect that their re-appointment, if made, would be within the limits
prescribed under Section 224(1 B) of the Companies Act, 1 956. Further,
the Company has also received a copy of Peer Review Certificate issued
by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a declaration
from the Auditors that they are not disqualified for such appointment/
reappointment within the meaning of Section 226 of the said Act.
The Board recommends the re-appointment of M/s Doogar & Associates,
Chartered Accountants the Statutory Auditors of the Company to hold
office upto the conclusion of next Annual General Meeting.
AUDITORS'' REPORT
The Notes on accounts and observations of the Auditors in their report
on the Accounts of the Company are self-explanatory. However, your
directors have following comments on the observations in the Auditors''
Report and recommendations of the Audit Committee:
Except for delay in some cases in depositing statutory dues on account
of administrative and clerical difficulties there are no arrears
outstanding at the end of the financial year or for more than 6 months
from the date they became repayable. However, steps are being taken for
further strengthening the systems. There are certain dues of Sales
Tax, Service Tax and Income Tax, which has not been deposited on
account of dispute, will be settled as per the resolution of dispute.
INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
The Company has in-house Internal Audit Department. Internal Control
System of the Company has been devised through its extensive experience
that ensures control over various functions of its business. The
Company practices Quality Management System for Design, Planning, and
Construction & Marketing which fulfils the requirement of ISO 9001.
Periodic audits conducted by Internal Auditors and Statutory Auditors
provide means whereby any weakness, whether financial or otherwise, is
identified and rectified in time.
ACCOUNTS OF SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
The Company has 90 subsidiaries as on March 31, 2011. List of
Subsidiaries which have been consolidated at the year end is given in
the Notes to Accounts.
Pursuant to Accounting Standard AS-21 issued by the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India and Listing Agreement as prescribed by
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Consolidated Financial
Statements, which includes the financial information of the
subsidiaries, are enclosed and forms part of thisAnnual Report.
As per the General Circular No. 1/2011 dated 8th February 2011 issued
by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the Balance Sheets of the
subsidiary companies have not been attached to the Annual Report.
However, the information regarding Capital, Reserves, Total Assets,
Total Liabilities, Details of Investment (except in case of Investment
in the Subsidiaries), Turnover, Profit before taxation, Provision for
taxation, Profit after taxation and Proposed Dividend for each
subsidiary including subsidiaries of subsidiary has been disclosed in
the Consolidated Balance Sheet of the Company.
Further, the Annual Accounts of the subsidiary companies and the
related detailed information will be made available to the shareholders
of the holding and subsidiary companies seeking such information at any
point of time and the Annual Accounts of the subsidiary companies will
also be kept for inspection by any member in the head office of the
holding company and of the subsidiary companies concerned. The Company
shall furnish a hard copy of details of accounts of subsidiaries to any
shareholder on demand. Further, we will put the details of the accounts
of individual subsidiary companies on the website of the Company i.e.
www.omaxe.com.
GREEN INITIATIVES IN THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has taken a Green Initiative
in the Corporate Governance by allowing service of document through
electronic mode vide its Circulars dated 21.04.2011 and 29.04.2011.
Keeping in view the initiative taken by the MCA, the Company is also
desirous to send various documents in electronic form to the email
addresses provided by the members and made available to us by the
depositories. All the members of the Company are requested to register
their email addresses and changes therein, from time to time, with the
concerned depositories and to help the Company to be successful in
fulfilling this initiative of the Government.
EMPLOYEES STOCK OPTION PLANS
OMAXE ESOP PLAN BETA-2007
The Company had adopted Omaxe ESOP Plan Beta-2007 pursuant to the
special resolution passed in the Annual General Meeting held on
September 27, 2007.
Pursuant to the requirements of the SEBI (ESOS and ESPS)
Guidelines, 1999, given below are the requisites disclosures:
Options granted
No options have been granted till date.
(Previous Year - No options have been granted till date.)
Pricing formula
No options have been granted till date under this Scheme. However, the
pricing formula would be as per the SEBI guidelines as at the time of
grant of options.
(Previous Year- No options have been granted till date under this
Scheme. However, the pricing formula would be as per the SEBI
guidelines as at the time of grant of options.)
Options vested
No options have vested till date under the above mentioned Scheme.
(Previous Year - No options have vested till date under the above
mentioned Scheme.)
Options exercised
No options have been exercised till date in the above mentioned Scheme.
(Previous Year - No options have been exercised till date in the above
mentioned Scheme.)
Total number of shares arising due to exercise of options No options
have been grated till date and hence, no shares would arise due to
exercise of options.
(Previous Year - No options have been grated till date and hence, no
shares would arise due to exercise of options.)
Options lapsed
No options have lapsed till date as per the grant and vesting schedule
of the Scheme.
(Previous Year - No options have lapsed till date as per the grant and
vesting schedule of the Scheme.)
Variation of terms of options
No variation has been made to the terms of the Scheme.
(Previous Year - No variation has been made to the terms of the
Scheme.)
Money realised by exercise of options
No money has been realised till date, as no Options have been exercised
till date.
(Previous Year - No money has been realised till date, as no Options
have been exercised till date.)
Total numberof options in force
No option is in force under the scheme mentioned above.
(Previous Year - No option is in force under the scheme mentioned
above.)
Employee wise details of options granted to: Senior managerial
personnel
Nil
(Previous Year-Nil)
Any other employee with grant greater than 5% of total Options
Nil
(Previous Year-Nil)
Employees getting options more than 1 % of issued capital No employee
of the Company has been awarded more than or equal to 1 % of the issued
capital (excluding outstanding warrants and conversions) of the Company
at the time of the grant.
(Previous Year - No employee of the Company has been awarded more than
or equal to 1% of the issued capital (excluding outstanding warrants
and conversions) of the Company at the time of the grant.)
Diluted Earnings Per Share
There has been no grant under this scheme and hence there is no impact
on EPS.
(Previous Year - There has been no grant under this scheme and hence
there is no impact on EPS.)
Exercise price and fair option value
Not applicable.
(Previous Year - Not applicable.)
Employee Compensation Cost
The employee compensation cost will be calculated as difference between
the fair value of the shares and exercise price of the option. However,
the difference between the employee compensation cost so computed and
the employee compensation cost that shall have been recognised if it
had used the fair value of the options, shall be disclosed. The impact
of this difference on profits and on EPS of the company shall also be
disclosed.
Since there are no options in force, the employee compensation cost is
Nil.
(Previous Year- The employee compensation cost will be calculated as
difference between the fair market value of the shares and exercise
price of the option)
Weighted average exercise price and fair value of options
Nil
(Previous Year-Nil)
Expected life
Expected life of options granted to the employees is ten (10) years.
This is based on various schemes launched by various organisations in
the country.
(Previous Year - Expected life of options granted to the employees is
ten (10) years. This is based on various schemes launched by various
organisations in the country.)
DIRECTORATE
In accordance with the provisions of Section 255 and Section 256 of the
Companies Act, 1956 and Articles of Association of the Company, Mr.
Sunil Goel, Joint Managing Director, Mr. Prahlad Kumar Gupta, Director
and Lt.Gen (Retd).) Bhopinder Singh, Director of the Company retire by
rotation, at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. Mr. Prahlad Kumar
Gupta, due to some personal engagements, has expressed his inability
for re-appointment and accordingly he will continue as the Director of
the Company till the forthcoming Annual General Meeting of the Company.
Further, Mr. Sunil Goel, Joint Managing Director and Lt.Gen (Retd.)
Bhopinder Singh, Director of the Company, being eligible, offer
themselves for re-appointment. The Board recommends their
re-appointment.
Brief resume of the Directors proposed to be re-appointed, nature of
their expertise in specific functional areas and names of the companies
in which they hold directorship and membership/ chairmanship of
Committees of the Board, as stipulated under Clause 49 of the Listing
Agreement with the Stock Exchange(s) are provided in the Corporate
Governance Report forming part of the Annual Report.
DIRECTORS''RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to the requirement under section 217(2AA) of the Companies
Act, 1 956, with respect to Directors'' Responsibility Statement, it is
hereby confirmed that:
(I) In the preparation of the annual accounts for the financial year
ended March 31, 2011, the applicable accounting standards have been
followed along with proper explanations relating to material
departures;
(ii) The Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied
them consistently and made judgements 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 March 31, 2011 and of the profit of the Company for
the year ended on that date;
(iii) 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; and
(iv) The Directors had prepared the annual accounts of the
Companyforthe financial year ended March 31, 2011 on a ''going concern''
basis.
PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
As required by the provisions of Section 217(2A) of the Companies Act,
1956 read with the Companies (Particular of Employees) Rules, 1975 as
amended, the names and other particular of the Employees are set out in
Annexure I.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT/TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION/
FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING AND OUTGO
The information required pursuant to Section 217 (1)(e) of the
Companies Act, 1956, read with Companies (Disclosure of particulars in
the Report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 pertaining to
Conservation of Energy, Research & Development, Technology Absorption
and Foreign Exchange Earning and Outgo are not applicable to the
Company.
However, during the year under review Company''s earning in foreign
currency is Rs.44.27 mio as against Rs.5.35 mio earning in previous
year and expenditure in foreign currency is Rs.11.70 mio as compared to
Rs.3.37 mio in the previous year.
INVESTOR RELATIONS
Investor Relations have been cordial during the year. As a part of
compliance, the Company has formed an Investor Grievance Committee to
redress the issues relating to investors. It consists of three members
namely Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Bhopinder Singh, Independent Director, RK.
Gupta, Independent Director and Mr. Rohtas Goel, Chairman and Managing
Director of the Company. Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Bhopinder Singh, Independent
Director is the Chairman of the Investor Grievance Committee. The
details of this Committee are provided in the Corporate Governance
Report forming part of the Annual Report.
LISTING
The equity shares continue to be listed on The Bombay Stock Exchange
Ltd. (BSE) and The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE). Both
these Stock Exchanges have nation wide terminals and therefore,
shareholders/investors are not facing any difficulty in trading the
shares of the Company from any part of the Country. The Company has
paid annual listing fee for the financial year 2011 -1 2 to The Bombay
Stock Exchange Ltd. and The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. and
annual custody fee to National Securities Depository Limited and
Central Depository Services (India) Limited.
REPORT ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Directors adhere to the requirements set out by the Securities and
Exchange Board of India''s Corporate Governance practices and have
implemented all the stipulations prescribed. The Company has
implemented several best corporate governance practices as prevalent
globally.
The Report on Corporate Governance as stipulated under Clause 49 of the
Listing Agreement forms part of this Report.
The requisite Certificate from the Statutory Auditors of the Company,
M/s Doogar & Associates, Chartered Accountants, confirming compliance
with the conditions of Corporate Governance as stipulated under the
aforesaid Clause 49, is attached and forms part of the Report.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
The Management Discussion and Analysis Report as required under Clause
49 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges forms part of this
Report.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Your Directors would like to express their sincere appreciation for
assistance and co-operation received from the vendors and stakeholders
including financial institutions, banks, Central & State Government
authorities, other business associates, who have extended their
valuable sustained support and encouragement during the year under
review.
The relationship with the employees remained cordial during the year.
Your Directors are thankful to the shareholders and customers for their
continued patronage. Your Directors wish to place on record their
appreciation for impressive growth achieved through the competence,
hard work, solidarity, cooperation and support of employees at all
levels.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
Statement made in the report, including those stated under the caption
Management Discussion and Analysis describing the Company''s plan,
projections and expectations may constitute forward looking statement
within the meaning of applicable laws and regulations. Actual results
may differ materially from those either expressed or implied.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
sd/-
Rohtas Goel
Chairman and Managing Director
Place: New Delhi
Date: May30,2011
Registered Office:
Omaxe House
7, LSC, Kalkaji, NewDelhi-110019
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