Dear Members,
The Directors are delighted to present the 18th Annual Report on the
business & operations of the company together with the Audited
Financial Statements & Accounts for the year ended on 31 st March,
2011.
TELECOM INDUSTRY IN INDIA
AN OVERVIEW
Telecommunications is pivotal to a country''s socio-economic growth. It
is one of the main architects of the accelerated growth and progress of
different segments of the economy. Narrowing access gaps and removing
barriers to information dissemination are prerequisites for promoting
equitable and sustainable development as well as political and social
cohesion. Increasing connectivity is highly instrumental in improving
governance, business communications, security, response to emergencies
and in the overall strengthening of the socio cultural ethos of the
country. The advantages of the advent of telecommunications are
manifold and explicitly verifiable from the phenomenal success of the
sector.
The Indian telecommunications industry is one of the fastest growing in
the world. The industry has witnessed consistent growth during the last
year on the back of rollout of newer circles by operators, successful
auction of third-generation (3G) and broadband wireless access (BWA)
spectrum, network rollout in semi-rural areas and increased focus on
the value added services (VAS) market.
According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the
number of telephone subscriber base in the country reached 846.32
million as on March 31, 2011, an increase of 20.07 million subscribers.
The wireless subscriber base has increased to 811.59 million at the end
of March 2011.There are 564.08 million urban subscribers and rural are
283.23 million subscribers taking tele density to 70.89% and wireless
tele density is 67.98%. Approximately 65 lakhs subscribers showed their
interest in Mobile Number Portability. Revenues of the Indian Telecom
sector grew by 7% to Rs. 283,207 crore (US$ 63.8 million) in the 2011
financial year. During the previous fiscal year total revenue of the
sector stood at Rs. 264,669 crore.
Revenue from various services in the Indian Telecom Industry grew to
Rs. 166,168 crore, up 14.9 per cent, in 2010-11 fiscal year as against
Rs. 144,600 crore in the previous financial year. The growth was purely
driven by growth in subscriber base for various services. The maximum
revenue in the service sector of the industry came from the cellular
services market which grew by 16.6 % to Rs. 102,230 crore in financial
year 2011 from Rs.87680 crores in the previous fiscal year. Revenues
from fixed line continued to decline both in terms of number of
connections and revenues.
The booming domestic telecom market has been attracting huge amounts of
investment which is likely to accelerate with the entry of new players
and launch of new services. According to the Department of Industrial
Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the telecommunications sector includes
radio paging, mobile services and basic telephone services. As per an
industry report the telecom industry witnessed merger and acquisition
(M&A) deals. There were 10 inbound, outbound and domestic M&A deals in
the telecom sector during the first nine months of the current fiscal
year. The biggest M&A deal in the sector was made by telecommunications
service provider through the acquisition of mobile services operations
in 15 countries. The deal involved a transaction of US$ 10.7 billion.
The Indian telecom industry manufactures a vast range of telecom
equipment using state-of-the-art technology.
The exponential growth witnessed by the telecom sector in the past
decade has led to the development of .the telecom equipment
manufacturing industries and other supporting industries. With advent
of next generation technologies and operators looking to roll out 3G
and broad band wireless excess service, the demand for the telecom
equipment is set to increase gigantically in the times to come.
Telecom as a service industry alone could not continue to contribute to
the country''s GDP at the current level. The economy can grow only when
the manufacturing industry grows. The focus has been shifted from
import-centric industry to global telecom equipment manufacturing
hub. The imports are declining and now India is fourth telecom equipment
manufacturer in the Asia Pacific region. It is a very heartening and
healthy trend that many Multinational Companies have set up domestic
manufacturing facilities like Huawei, NSN, Alcatel Lucent and Zte. The
Country is not only emerging as a manufacturing hub but is also
planning to increase its telecom exports each year.
EXPORTS
Your Company is exporting Telecommunication products and systems to
various countries worldwide.
The Export revenue is growing on yearly basis. In the recent past the
company has completed some major In-building projects in different
countries. The Company has taken Turnkey Projects worldwide, which
include the survey, planning, installation, commissioning etc. We have
appointed more than 50 Agents/ Distributors/ Value Added Resellers
worldwide. In the recent past we have been short listed as a preferred
supplier for many operators in Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc.
The product was approved and the company has got the big order by one
of the biggest operator in USA i.e. Verizon Wireless.
We are planning to open few new offices in different strategic
locations from where we can cover areas of our expecting business.
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
The liberalization on the Foreign Direct Investment front has
stimulated the telecom sector growth as FDI in telecom projects is
allowed from 74% to 100%. In case of telecom operators, FDI is allowed
upto 74% and 26% has to be the Indian shareholding. FDI upto 49% is on
the Automatic Route and beyond that on the government Route. The
telecom operators had invested huge money on telecom infrastructure
over the past few years in expanding their network more than 90%
throughout the country.
Telecom is considered to be highly potential for investments and
upcoming industries.
FUTURE IN TELECOM
Telecom growth story will be a function of the enhanced demand for high
speed broadband and data services from both enterprises and consumers.
The growth in the India domestic mobile handsets market will be fueled
by a more than 150% increment in the value of feature phones and
smart phones shipped, from Rs.50,714 crore in 2010 to Rs.1,28,729 crore
in 20l4.lt is also said that the India Telecom services sector may see
policy changes that could result in market consolidation over the next
few years.
The major growth drivers for the telecom services sector segments would
be the launch and roll-out of 3G and BWA/ WiMax /LTE services and the
consequent growth in usage of high speed broad band, VAS and data
services. Establishment of 3G and BWA (WIMAX and long evaluation LTE)
will have a positive impact on the India Market; however, broad band
content will remain in early stages of development through 2011, CMR.
In terms of broadband content, 2011 & 2012 will witness early stages of
development. However, as WiMax / LTE services gain in popularity,
content creation and mobile application development will witness
increased focus by vendors, developers and service providers looking to
build their own portfolio of unique ''apps''. Also, mobiles handsets will
witness a high growth rate of 26.2 percent CAGR over the period 2010-
2014 to touch Rs.1,28,729 Crore in 2014. Smartphone market to grow to
over lOmn units in 2011- 2012. The Smartphones market in India is
expected to grow year by year. The Android Operating System will
continue to gain acceptance as a mode operating system (OS) and 12
percent of all smartphones shipped in India during 2011 are expected to
be based on the Android platform.
STRENGHTHS OF INDUSTRY
India has all the makings of a globally competitive telecom
Manufacturing and R&D destination. This is evident from:
- A large and booming domestic market with Indian operators reaching
out to the global market providing wider access to Indian telecom
companies.
- Strong management experience in critical functions such as SCM, high
tech manufacturing systems, working capital management, value chain
with EMS companies, captive facilities of MNCs (willing to invest
further in India), auxiliary component manufacturing base (e.g., for
cables, cabinets, shelves, power electronics, tooling, bare PCBs,
etc.).
- Strong technical and R&D workforce having experience in R&D centers
of MNC companies, IT service companies doing telecom projects, strong
academic and research labs and an increasing number of Indians who are
returning back from USA/Europe.
- Skilled & trained shop floor workforce for electronics circuit
assembly, testing and integration from widely available resources from
Industrial Training Institutes and Polytechnics.
- Cost advantage arising from lower manufacturing plant establishment
cost and competitive labor costs.
- Availability of capital from a well established financing industry as
well as private equity network.
- Exports growth at 25 percent CAGR over next 5 years, reaching over
USD 10 Billion.
- Domestic telecom products growth of 18 percent CAGR over next 5
years.
- Employment generation (direct and in-direct) of 20 million
- At least 70 percent of Indian domestic telecom needs are met by
products manufactured in India.
- Handset and other Data Products imports and manufacturing has become
a very big market in India. India is the largest importer of Handsets &
Data Products in the world.
COMPANY''S OVERVIEW
Your company is a complete telecom solution provider. Your company
offers an entire suite of both in-building and outdoor Repeaters and
DAS Products. Your company offers a wide range of band selective
repeaters from low power up to very high power available in a single,
dual and tri-band version allowing any frequency combination in 2G, 3G
& LTE Technology.
Your company also deals in In- building solutions & state of the art
Turnkey projects. The company has penetrated the GSM & CDMA markets.
LTE is the brand name for emerging and developed technologies that
comprise the existing 3G and 4G networks. The LTE specification
provides downlink peak rates of at least 100 Mbps, an uplink of at
least 50 Mbps and RAN round-trip times of less than 10 ms. LTE supports
scalable carrier bandwidths, from 1.4 MHz to 20 MHz and supports both
frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD).
Your company has been a proven supplier of the Telecom Equipment to
Telecom Equipment Manufacturers like Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, etc. and
Telecom Service Providers like Aircel, Vodafone, MTS, Idea, etc.
Service providers are going big way in In-Building solution where your
company is one of the leading solution providers.
In International Market, your Company has marked its presence in Asia
Pacific, USA, Europe and Russia. The Company has also been successful in
procuring big orders from Latin America for repeaters. Your Company
also got the product approved from operators in North & South America
and is also testing various products with major operators in Europe.
The company introduced 3G Tri band Repeaters, 4G Repeaters and 450 MHz
(TETRA) Optical Repeaters in the last financial year and now planning
to introduce Indoor Repeaters with new technology Processors. We have
also launched the Web based application in our existing NMS (Network
Management System). Company also designed some new low cost products to
meet the customer and market requirements.
The company is currently working on the IP based software feature which
will fasten the application of products and make it more user friendly.
The major contribution to the top line is from dealing in CDMA Handsets
and Accessories. We are the National supplier of Handsets and
Accessories for the retail market for an operator and are actively
working with other Service Providers to start relationship with them.
The company is importing these from the top handset manufacturers of
the world like LG, Samsung, ZTE, etc. The company would be introducing
a range of new handsets and accessories in the market in the coming
years.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
(Rupees in Lacs)
Financial Financial
PARTICULARS Year Year
2010-2011 2009-2010
Sales and Services 68314.69 29329.75
Profit/(Loss) before Tax 377.09 (655.90)
Provision for Income Tax
Current Tax 90.13 -
Deferred Tax (48.60) (209.18)
MAT Credit available for set off 12.92 -
Wealth Tax 0.88 1.07
Income Tax/Deferred Tax (60.14) -
for earlier year
Profit/(Loss) after Tax 381.90 (447.79)
OPERATIONS
During the period under review your company has registered a turnover
of Rs. 683.15 crore against Rs. 293.30 crore in the year 2009-2010. A
net profit of Rs. 3.82 crore has been made during this period as
against a loss of Rs. 4.48 crore in the previous period.The year to
year increase in the turnover is 132.92%.
DIVIDEND
The Board considering prudent to conserve resources for investments in
business, regrets its inability to recommend any dividend for the year
ended 31st march 2011.
SUBSIDIARY
The Company has only one subsidiary viz. Shyam Telecom Inc, USA and
therefore as per Section 212 of the Companies Act, 1956, the reports
and Audited Accounts of the subsidiary company along with the statement
from the part of Annual Report. The subsidiary being near to the
customers is able to provide the end to end support to the
customers.The subsidiary has appointed the local manpower so that it
can fully understand the customer requirements and can provide the best
solutions. Subsidiary also provides the logistic benefits which helps
in quick delivery of products at the customer end.
There has been a change in the financial year of the subsidiary as it
observe financial year commencing from 1st January to 31st December in
place of 1st April to 31st March. Accordingly, Accounts enclosed are
only for the period of nine months i.e. from I st April 2010 to 31 st
December 2010.
PUBLIC FIXED DEPOSIT
The company has not accepted deposits from Public under Sec 58A of the
Companies Act 1956.
DIRECTORS
In accordance with the provisions of Sec 256 of the Companies Act, 1956
and Arcticles of Association of the company, Mr. N. Kumbhat, Mr.Vinod
Juneja and Mr. C.S Malhotra, Directors of the company, retire by
rotation at the ensuing Annual General Meeting and being eligible,
offer themselves for re- appointment. Their brief profile has been
stated in the corporate Governance Report.
Mr. Ravikant Jaipuria ceased to be the director w.e.f 11.02.2011
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
In terms of the provision of Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act,
1956, your directors confirm that:
i) In the preparation of the Annual Accounts, the applicable Accounting
Standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to
material departures wherever necessary.
ii) 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 financial year 2010-11 and of the profit/
loss 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 this Act for safeguarding the assets of the company and
for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities.
iv) The Directors have prepared the Annual Accounts on a going concern
basis.
AUDITORS
M/s Mehra Goel & Co., Chartered Accountants, the retiring Auditors of
your company expressed their willingness to continue as auditors, if
re- appointed at the Annual General Meeting to hold the office until
the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting. The Company has
received from the Auditors a certificate to this effect that their
appointment, if made, would be within the prescribed limit under
Section 224(I-B) of the Companies Act, 1956.
AUDITOR''S REPORT AND CLARIFICATION
The notes to the accounts in Auditors'' Report are self explanatory
except the following whereby management response to
qualifications/observations made in Annexure to the Auditors'' Report is
stated as under.
(i) Point 8 of Annexure to Auditors Report
The observation expressed is purely statement of fact wherein it is
stated that they have not and are not required to carry out the
examination of cost records and accounts.
(ii) Point 9 of Annexure to Auditors Report
The delays are very nominal and due to mismatch of cash inflows, but on
the date of the Auditors Report all such dues have been paid and
regularized.
PARTICULARS OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, ABSORPTION OF TECHNOLOGY AND
FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGO
The information relating to conservation of energy, as required under
Section 217( I )(e) of the Companies Act, 1956 read with the Companies
(Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules,
1988, is annexed and form the part of this Report.
PARTICULARS OF THE EMPLOYEES
In compliance with the provisions of Section 2I7(2A) of the Companies
Act, 1956, read with Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975,
statement of particulars of employees has not been given as none of the
employee during the financial year drew remuneration more than Rs. 5
Lacs per month or Rs. 60 Lacs per annum.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Relations with the Employees remain cordial and your Directors wish to
place on record their appreciation of the co-operation and contribution
made by the employees at all levels.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
A Report on Corporate Governance as required under Clause 49 of the
Listing Agreement, as applicable, form the part of this report.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
A report on Management Discussion and Analysis as required under Clause
49 of the Listing Agreement, as applicable, form the part of this
report.
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
In accordance with Accounting Standard 21, Audited Consolidated
Financial Statements have been attached which form the part of this
report and accounts.
COMPOSITION OF AUDIT & FINANCE COMMITTEE
Disclosure pursuant to the provisions of Section 292A of the Companies
Act, 1956, the Audit & Finance Committee of the Company consists of:
Mr. Achintya Karati - Independent Director & Chairman
Mr. Narendra Kumbhat - Independent Director & Member
Mr. Ravikant Jaipuria* - Independent Director & Member
Dr. Vinod Juneja - Independent Director & Member
Mr. Praveen K. Bhatia - Independent Director & Member
Mr. C.S. Malhotra - Independent Director & Member
Mr. Arun Khanna - Non Executive Director & Member
Mr. Dharmender Dhingra- Vice President (Legal) & Company Secretary.
*Mr. Ravikant Jaipuria has ceased to be Director w.e.f. I 1.02.2011.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Your Directors acknowledge with gratitude the co-operation received
from Bankers, Central and State Government Departments, Local
Authorities and Customers for their continued guidance and support.
Your Directors also convey their gratitude to the Shareholders,
Statutory Auditors and Employees of the company for their commitment
and support which has contributed to the growth and success of the
company.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors of
SHYAM TELECOM LIMITED
Sd/-
PLACE: NEW DELHI RAJIV MEHROTRA
DATE : 1 st August, 2011 Chairman & Managing Director
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