Your Directors are pleased to present the Thirty Ninth (39th] Annual Report together with the AuditedFinancial Statements of the Company for the Financial Year ended March 31, 2024.
(Rs. in Lakhs)
Particulars
Year ended March 31,
2024
2023
Total Income
138.53
154.44
Less: Total Expenditure
137.46
153.53
Profit before Taxation
1.07
0.91
Less: Tax Expense
0.25
0.23
Profit for the period
0.82
0.68
Add: Brought forward from previous year
(341.66]
(315.35]
Surplus carried to Balance Sheet
(313.84]
(314.66]
Your Company has prepared the Financial Statements for the financial year ended March 31, 2024 underSections 129, 133 and Schedule II to the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Companies (IndianAccounting Standards] Rules, 2015, as amended by the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards](Amendment] Rules, 2016.
The Company's total income during the year stood at Rs. 138.53 Lakhs, as compared to Rs. 154.44 Lakhsin the previous year. The Company's profit before tax is Rs. 1.07 Lakhs during the year, as compared toRs. 0.91 Lakhs in the previous year. The Company earned a net profit of Rs. 0.82 Lakhs, as against a netprofit of Rs. 0.68 Lakhs in the previous year.
In order to maintain a healthy capital adequacy ratio to support long term growth of Company, Directorshas not recommended any Dividend for the Financial Year 2023-24.
The Company has not transferred any amount out of the profit earned to reserve account during the yearunder review. The entire profit earned during the year under review is being carried forward underProfit & Loss Account.
There have been no material changes and commitments, affecting the financial position of the companywhich have occurred between the end of the financial year of the company to which the financial yearrelate and the date of this report.
There were no significant material orders passed by the Regulators or Courts or T ribunals impacting thegoing concern status of the Company and its operations in future.
The Company's Internal Control Systems are commensurate with the nature, size and complexity of itsbusiness and ensure proper safeguarding of assets, maintaining proper accounting record and providingreliable financial information. Your Company's Internal Control ensures that all assets of the Companyare safeguarded and protected, proper prevention and detection of frauds and errors and all transactionsare authorized, recorded and reported appropriately.
Your Company has an adequate system of internal financial controls commensurate with its size andscale of operations, procedures and policies, ensuring orderly and efficient conduct of its business,including adherence to the Company's policies, safeguarding of its assets, prevention and detection offrauds and errors, accuracy and completeness of accounting records, and timely preparation of reliablefinancial information.
Such practice provides reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permitpreparation of Financial Statements in accordance with the applicable legislations. Your Company alsomonitors through its Internal Audit Team the requirements of processes in order to prevent or timelydetect unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company's Assets which could have a materialeffect on the Financial Statements of the Company. The Internal Audit function is responsible to assistthe Audit Committee on an independent basis with a complete review of the risk assessments andassociated management action plans.
During the year under review, the Internal Financial Control Audit was carried out by the StatutoryAuditors, the Report of which is forming part of this Annual Report.
During the year under review, the Company has not accepted any deposit within the meaning of Section73 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Companies (Acceptance of Deposits] Rules, 2014.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 139 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rules framed there under M/sAcharyya Swapan & Co., Chartered Accountant, (Firm Registration No. 325797E] Statutory Auditors ofthe Company, holds office till the conclusion of the ensuing Annual General Meeting and being eligibleoffer themselves for re-appointment till the conclusion of 40thAnnual General Meeting. Further, they haveconfirmed their eligibility to the effect that their re-appointment, if made, would be within the prescribedlimits under the Act and that they are not disqualified for re-appointment.
Accordingly, the Board recommends the resolution in relation to appointment of Statutory Auditors, forthe approval by the shareholders of the Company.
There is no audit qualification for the year under review.
In terms of Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013, read with the Companies (Appointment andRemuneration of Managerial Personnel] Rules, 2014 the Company had appointed M/s. K Bothra &Associates, Practicing Company Secretary (Certificate of Practice No. 15159], as the Secretarial Auditor.
The Secretarial Audit Report for the financial year ended March 31, 2024 is annexed herewith as[Annexure-A] to this report.
As on March 31, 2024 the Company does not have any Subsidiary/Joint Venture/ Associate Companiesas per the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.
The Authorised Share Capital of your Company stands at Rs. 31,00,00,000/- divided into 3,10,00,000Equity shares of Rs. 10/- each. At present the Issued, Subscribed and Paid Up Share Capital of theCompany is Rs. 30,00,13,000/- divided into 3,00,01,300 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each. During the yearunder review, the Company has not issued any shares.
The Provisions of Section 134(m) of the Act relating to conservation of energy and technology absorptiondo not apply to this Company as the Company has not carried out any manufacturing activities.
During the year under review there was no foreign exchange outgo nor was any foreign exchange earned.DIRECTORS AND KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL
The Company has a duly constituted Board of Directors which is in compliance with the requirements ofthe Companies Act, 2013, schedules thereto and rules framed there under and also in terms of theprovisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and DisclosureRequirements] Regulations, 2015 and provisions of the Articles of Association of the Company.
All the Independent Directors have given a declaration that they meet the criteria of Independence aslaid down under Section 149(6] of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the rules made there under and asper Securities and Exchange Board of India(Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements] Regulations,
2015. In the opinion of the Board, they fulfil the conditions of Independence as specified in the Act andthe rules made there under.
A brief profile of the above Director seeking appointment/re-appointment required as per Securities andExchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements] Regulations, 2015 will beprovided in the Notice of Annual General Meeting of the Company. None of the Directors of the Companyare disqualified for being appointed as Directors, as specified in Section 164 (2] of the Companies Act,2013 and rule 14(1] of the Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors] Rules, 2014
The Independent Directors are familiarised with the Company, their roles, rights, responsibilities in theCompany, nature of the industry in which the Company operates, business model of the Company, etc.On appointment, the Independent Director is issued a Letter of Appointment setting out in detail, theterms of appointment, duties, responsibilities and expected time commitments. The Director is alsoexplained in detail the various compliances required from him/her as a Director under the variousprovisions of the Companies Act, 2013, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations andDisclosure Requirements] Regulations, 2015.
Mr. Biswajit Das (PAN: AVYPD0691B] was appointed as Company Secretary of the Company with effectfrom April 1, 2023.
Mr. Tapas Chowdhury (DIN: 00398298] was appointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director of theCompany with effect from January 04, 2024.
The Board places on record their sincere appreciation and gratitude for the assistance and guidanceprovided by them during their tenure as Directors of the Company.
Your Company understands the requirements of an effective Board Evaluation process and accordinglyconducts a Performance Evaluation every year in respect of the following:
i. Board of Directors as a whole;
ii. Committees of the Board of Directors;
iii. Individual Directors including the Chairman of the Board of the Directors.
In compliance with the requirements of the provisions of Section 178 of the Companies Act, 2013, theListing Regulations and the Guidance Note on Board Evaluation issued by SEBI in January 2017, yourCompany has carried out a Performance Evaluation for the Board / Committees of the Board / IndividualDirectors including the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the financial year ended March 31, 2024.The key objectives of conducting the Board Evaluation were to ensure that the Board and variousCommittees of the Board have appropriate composition of Directors and they have been functioningcollectively to achieve common business goals of your Company. Similarly, the key objective ofconducting performance evaluation of the Directors through individual assessment and peer assessmentwas to ascertain if the Directors actively participate in Board Meetings and contribute to achieve thecommon business goal of the Company.
The Directors carry out the aforesaid Performance Evaluation in a confidential manner and providedtheir feedback. Duly completed feedback were sent to the Chairman of the Board and the Chairman /Chairperson of the respective Committees of the Board for their consideration. The PerformanceEvaluation feedback of the Chairman was sent to the Chairperson of the Nomination and RemunerationCommittee.
The Nomination and Remuneration Committee forwarded their recommendation based on suchPerformance Evaluation to the Board of Directors. All the criteria of Evaluation as envisaged in the SEBICircular on 'Guidance Note on Board Evaluation' had been adhered to by your Company.
A total of Six (6] Meetings of the Board of Directors of your Company were held during the year underreview. The maximum interval between two meetings did not exceed 120 days, as prescribed in theCompanies Act, 2013, and in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations andDisclosure Requirements] Regulations, 2015. Details of all Board/Committee Meetings are given in theCorporate Governance Report.
The Company has constituted/re-constituted various Board level committees in accordance with therequirements of Companies Act, 2013. Details of all the Committees along with composition and meetingsheld during the year under review are provided in the Corporate Governance Report.
The composition and terms of reference of the Audit Committee has been furnished in the CorporateGovernance Report. There have been no instances where the Board has not accepted therecommendations of the Audit Committee.
The composition and terms of reference of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee has beenfurnished in the Corporate Governance Report.
The composition and terms of reference of the Stakeholders Relationship Committee has been furnishedin the Corporate Governance Report.
The Board of Directors has framed a policy which lays down a framework in relation to remuneration ofDirectors, Key Managerial Personnel and Senior Management of the Company. This policy also lays downcriteria for selection and appointment of Board Members. The details of this policy are explained andannexed as [Annexure- B] and forms an integral part of this Report.
Your Company has formulated a codified Whistle Blower Policy incorporating the provisions relating toVigil Mechanism in terms of Section 177 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Regulation 22 of Securities andExchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements] Regulations, 2015, in orderto encourage Directors and Employees of your Company to escalate to the level of the Audit Committeeany issue of concerns impacting and compromising with the interest of your Company and itsstakeholders in any way. Your Company is committed to adhere to highest possible standards of ethical,moral and legal business conduct and to open communication and to provide necessary safeguards forprotection of employees from reprisals or victimisation, for whistle blowing in good faith.
Your Company is committed to provide and promote a safe, healthy and congenial atmosphereirrespective of gender, caste, creed or social class of the employees. Your Company in its endeavour toprovide a safe and healthy work environment for all its employees has developed a policy to ensure zerotolerance towards verbal, physical, psychological conduct of a sexual nature by any employee orstakeholder that directly or indirectly harasses, disrupts or interferes with another employee's workperformance or creates an intimidating, offensive or hostile environment such that each employee canrealize his / her maximum potential.
Your Company has put in place a 'Policy on Prevention of Sexual Harassment' as per The SexualHarassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal] Act, 2013. The Policy ismeant to sensitize the employees about their fundamental right to have safe and healthy environment atworkplace. As per the Policy, any employee may report his / her complaint to the Audit Committee andto the Board of Directors of the Company.
Your Company affirms that during the year under review adequate access was provided to complainant,if any, who wished to register a complaint under the policy.
During the year, your Company has not received any complaint on sexual harassment.
The Company has not given any Guarantees or Investments or provided security in terms of Section 186of the Companies Act, 2013 during the year under review, however the company has given loan to theparties & has complied with the provision of section 186 of the Companies Act, 2013. Details of suchLoans forms part of the notes to the Financial Statements provided in this Annual Report.
During the financial year ended March 31, 2024 the company has not entered into any related partytransactions.
Your Company has always practised sound corporate governance and takes necessary actions atappropriate times for enhancing and meeting stakeholders' expectations while continuing to complywith the mandatory provisions of Corporate Governance.
As per Regulation 34(3] read with Schedule V of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (ListingObligations and Disclosure Requirements] Regulations, 2015 a separate section on corporate governancepractices followed by the Company, together with a certificate confirming compliance is given as[Annexure-C] and forms an integral part of this Report.
The Management Discussion and Analysis Report on the operations of the Company, as required underSecurities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements] Regulations,2015 is provided in a separate section as [Annexure-D] and forms an integral part of this Report.
Pursuant to Section 134(5] of the Companies Act, 2013 (including any statutory modification(s) or re¬enactments) for the time being in force], the Directors of your Company confirm that:
i. in the preparation of the Annual Accounts for the financial year ended March 31, 2024, the applicableAccounting Standards and Schedule III of the Companies Act, 2013 (including any statutorymodification(s] or re-enactment(s] for the time being in force], have been followed and there are nomaterial departures from the same;
ii. the Directors have selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and madejudgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent, so as to give a true and fair view of the stateof affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2024 and of the profit & loss of the Company for the FinancialYear March 31, 2024;
iii. the Directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accountingrecords in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 (including any statutorymodification(s] or re-enactment(s] for the time being in force] for safeguarding the assets of theCompany and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;
iv. the annual accounts have been prepared on a 'going concern' basis;
v. proper internal financial controls laid down by the Directors were followed by your Company and thatsuch internal financial controls are adequate and operating effectively; and
vi. proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws were in place and thatsuch systems were adequate and operating effectively.
Statements in this Directors' Report and Management Discussion and Analysis Report describing theCompany's objectives, projections, estimates, expectations or predictions may be “forward-lookingstatements” within the meaning of applicable securities laws and regulations. Actual results could differmaterially from those expressed or implied. Important factors that could make difference to theCompany's operations include changes in Government regulations, Tax regimes, economic developmentsin India and other ancillary factor.
Your directors wish to place on record their appreciation, for the contribution made by the employees atall levels but for whose hard work, and support, your Company's achievements would not have beenpossible. Your directors also wish to thank its customers, dealers, agents, suppliers, investors andbankers for their continued support and faith reposed in the Company.
Place: Kolkata Whole Time Director Director
Date: 09/09/2024 DIN: 00398157 DIN: 08751700