Your directors present the Thirtieth Annual Report and Audited Accounts of the Company alongwith the Report of the Business and operations of your Company ("the Company or CLL”) forthe financial year ended March 31, 2025.
The Audited Financial Statements of your Company as on March 31, 2025, are prepared inaccordance with the relevant applicable Indian Accounting Standards ("Ind AS”) andRegulation 33 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations andDisclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 ("SEBI Listing Regulations”) and the provisionsof the Companies Act, 2013 ("Act”).
The summarized financial highlight is depicted below:
Sr.
No.
Particulars
Consolidated
Standalone
31-03-2025
31-03-2024
Revenue from operations
7661.10
7163.76
Other income
207.23
200.98
(1)
Total Income
7868.33
7364.75
Operating Expense
6702.27
6489.24
Employee benefit expense
142.52
153.14
Finance Cost
231.78
365.12
Depreciation, depletion andamortisation expense
159.83
218.74
Other Expenses
469.20
119.52
453.38
Total expenses
7705.60
7345.77
7689.78
(2)
Total profit beforeexceptional items and tax
162.72
18.98
178.54
Exceptional items
-
(3)
Total profit before tax
Less : Provision for Taxation :
(a) Income Tax
64.00
3.11
Add (b) Deferred Tax
24.91
50.86
24.14
(c) Excess Provision of earlieryears (Net)
Nil
Sub-total
39.09
(47.75)
39.86
(5)
Profit/(loss) after Tax for theyear
123.63
66.73
138.68
Other ComprehensiveIncome
(0.16)
0.97
(6)
Net profit/(loss) after Tax forthe year
123.47
67.70
138.52
(7)
Earnings per Share (EPS) ofRs. 10/- each
0.10
0.07
0.12
1. There are no material changes and commitments affecting the financial position of yourCompany which have occurred between the end of the financial year and the date ofthis report.
2. Previous year figures have been regrouped/re-arranged wherever necessary.
3. There has been no change in nature of business of your Company.
During the year under review, the revenue from operations and other income of theCompany were increased to Rs. 7868.33 Lakhs compared to Rs.7364.75 Lakhs of theprevious year. The company has earned profit of Rs. 138.68 lakhs (P.Y. profit Rs. 67.70Lakhs). The EPS on financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2025 is Rs.0.12(P.Y. Rs. (0.07) on basic/diluted basis.
Inspite of the tough market conditions, and increased prices of the diesel throughout theyear, company has achieved the position during the year.
There have been no changes in the nature of business and operations of your companyduring the financial year under review.
The Board of Directors of your company do not recommend any Dividend for the financialyear 2024-25. Further, during the year under review, no amount was transferred to GeneralReserves.
The Board of your company has decided not to transfer any amount to the General reservesfor the financial year 2024-25.
During the year, the company has Issued and allotted 2,09,00,000 equity shares of a facevalue of Rs.1/- each fully paid up consequent to the Conversion of 2,09,00,000 ConvertibleWarrants. Further, the paid up share capital of the company has increased from Rs.9,93,40,000 (99340000 Equity shares of Rs. 1 each) to Rs. 12,02,40,000 (12,02,40,000Equity shares of Rs. 1 each).
Further, there is no change in authorised capital of the company.
The company has not issued any Employee Stock Option Plans. As such no Employee StockOption Schemes have been framed.
The Company has acquired stake of 99.99% in the subsidiary company namely "CharteredComcare IFSC Limited"
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 129, 134 and 136 of the Act read with rules madethereunder and Regulation 33 of the SEBI Listing Regulations, your Company has preparedconsolidated financial statements of the Company and a separate statement containing the
salient features of financial statement of subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates in FormAOC-1, which forms part of this Annual Report.
The Company’s Securities are listed on BSE Limited at Mumbai.The Company has paidthe listing fees for F.Y 2024-25 on the paid-up equity share capital.
Your Company is not having credit rating for the year under review.
As on March 31, 2025 the Company is not categorised as a Large Corporate in terms of theSEBI Circular - SEBI/HO/DDHS/ CIR/P/2018/144 dated November 26, 2018. Necessarydisclosures in this regard have been filed with the stock exchanges within prescribedtimelines.
All the properties of the Company have been adequately insured.
Pursuant to the provisions of section 124 of the Companies Act, 2013 and rules madethereunder, during the year under the review, equity shares whose dividend had remainedunclaimed / unpaid for a consecutive period of seven years were transferred to IEPF, is notapplicable.
The audited financial statements of the Company and all other documents required to beattached thereto are available on the Company’s website: www.chartered.co.in. TheCompany publishes its unaudited standalone financial results which are subjected to limitedreview report on quarterly basis.
There was no employee drawing an annual salary of Rs. 124.05 lakhs or more whereemployed for full year or monthly salary of Rs. 10.29 Lakhs or more where employed forpart of the year and therefore, information pursuant to the provisions of Rule 5 (2) and (3)of The Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014is NIL.
Disclosure with respect to remuneration of the Directors and employees as required underSection 197 of the Act, and the Rule 5(1) of the Companies (Appointment andRemuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 is annexed herewith as “AnnexureI” to this Report.
Pursuant to the requirement of Section 134(5)of the Companies Act, 2013 with respect toDirectors' Responsibility Statement, the Directors hereby confirm:
a) that in the preparation of the standalone and consolidated financial statements for theyear ended March 31, 2025, the applicable Indian Accounting Standards read withrequirements set out under Schedule III of the Companies Act have been followed andthere are no material departures from the same;
b) that the Directors have selected such accounting policies and applied them consistentlyand made judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give atrue and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025 and of theprofit of the Company for that period;
c) that the Directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequateaccounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act for safeguarding theassets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;
d) that the Directors have prepared the annual accounts on a 'Going Concern’ basis;
e) that the Directors have laid down internal financial controls to be followed by thecompany and that such internal financial controls are adequate and were operatingeffectively; and
f) that the Directors have devised proper systems to ensure compliance with theprovisions of all applicable laws and that such systems are adequate and operatingeffectively.
I n accordance with the provisions of Section 152 of the Act and the Articles of Associationof the Company, Mr. Harsh Lalitkumar Gandhi (DIN:03045752) shall retire at theforthcoming Annual General Meeting of the Company and being eligible, offers himself forre-appointment.
During the year under review, the Independent Directors (non-executive) of the Companyhad no pecuniary relationships or transactions with the Company, other than sitting feesand reimbursement of expenses, if any, incurred by them for the purpose of attendingmeetings of the Board/Committee of the Company.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 203 of the Act, the Key Managerial Personnel of theCompany as on March 31, 2025 were: Mr. Lalit Kumar Gandhi, Managing Director, Mrs.Mamata Shailesh Patel as CFO of the company and Mrs. Hirvita Shah as CompanySecretary. There is no Change in MD, CFO and CS of the Company at present.
16. COMPANY’S POLICY ON DIRECTORS’ APPOINTMENT AND REMUNERATIONINCLUDING CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING QUALIFICATIONS, POSITIVEATTRIBUTES, INDEPENDENCE OF A DIRECTOR ETC.:
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 178 and other applicable provisions, if any, of theCompanies Act, 2013 read with the Rules made thereunder and Regulation 19 of SEBI(LODR) Regulations,2015 the Board of Directors had approved and adopted theRemuneration and Nomination Policy as recommended by the Nomination andRemuneration Committee. The salient features of the said policy covering the policy on
appointment and remuneration and other matters have been explained in the CorporateGovernance Report.
Pursuant to Regulation 34(3) and Schedule V Para C clause (10)(i) of the SEBI (ListingObligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, the Certificate of non¬disqualification of Directors from the Practicing Company Secretary forms the Part of thisreport as “Annexure II”.
In accordance with the provision of regulations 17(10) of the SEBI (Listing obligations andDisclosure Requirements), 2015 and schedule iv of the Companies Act, 2013, evaluationof performance of Independent Directors by the Non-Independent Directors and review ofthe performance of Non-Independent Directors and the Board as a whole by theIndependent Directors was made during the financial year under report. The Directorswere satisfied with the evaluation results, which reflected the overall engagement of theBoard and its Committees with the Company.
During the Financial year 2024-25, 7 (Seven) meetings of the Board of Directors took place.The details of which are given in the Report on Corporate Governance that forms the part ofthis Annual Report. The intervening gap between the meetings was within the periodprescribed under the Act and SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements)Regulations, 2015. Details of meetings of all the Committees of the Board have been givenin the Report on Corporate Governance.
The Company has complied with the provisions of ‘revised’ SS-1—Secretarial Standards onmeetings of the Board of Directors which has come into effect from October 01, 2017 andalso SS-2 Secretarial Standard on General Meetings during the year.
20. MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS, IF ANY AFFECTING THE FINANCIALPOSITION OF THE COMPANY, HAVING OCCURRED SINCE THE END OF THEFINANCIAL YEAR AND TILL THE DATE OF THE REPORT
There are no material changes and commitments, affecting the financial position of theCompany which have been occurred between the end of the financial year i.e. 31st March2025 and the date of the signing of the directors’ report i.e. August 5, 2024.
Loans, Guarantees & investment under Section 186 of Companies Act, 2013 form part ofnotes to financial statement provided in this Annual Report.
The Company has not accepted any fixed deposits, and as such no amount of principal orinterest was outstanding as on the Balance Sheet date.
All related party transactions that were entered during the financial year were in the ordinarycourse of the business of the Company and were on arm’s length basis. There were nomaterially significant related party transactions entered by the Company with Promoters,Directors, Key Managerial Personnel or other persons which may have a potential conflictwith the interest of the Company.
Your Directors have on the recommendation of the Audit Committee, adopted a policy toregulate transactions between your Company and its Related Parties, in compliance withthe applicable provisions of the Companies Act 2013, the Rules made thereunder and theSecurities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosures Requirements)Regulations, 2015.
The transactions were in ordinary course of business and on arm’s length basis, details ofwhich are provided in Section 134(3)(h) of the Act, are disclosed in Form AOC-2 which formspart of Annual report as “Annexure III”. The same are also given in the Standalone financialstatement of the company for the year ended 31st March 2024. Apart from the above, thecompany has not entered into any transactions with any person or entity belonging to thepromoter group which holds 10% or more shareholding in the company.
There are no materially significant transactions with the related parties during the financialyear which were in conflict with the interest of the company. Suitable disclosure as requiredby the Accounting Standard (AS-18) has been made in the notes to the financial statements,you may refer to related party transactions in the note of the standalone financial statements.
The shareholders had at the Twenty Sixth AGM of the Company appointed PrakashTekwani & Associations, Chartered Accountants, (Firm Registration No. 120253W), asStatutory Auditors of the Company to hold office from the conclusion of the Twenty SixthAGM till the conclusion of the Thirty First AGM. They have under Section 139(1) of the Actand the Rules framed thereunder, furnished a certificate of their eligibility. The requirementto place the matter relating to appointment of auditors for ratification by Members at everyAGM had been done away by the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 with effect fromMay 7, 2018. Accordingly, no resolution is being proposed for ratification of appointmentof statutory auditors at the ensuing AGM and a note in respect of same has been includedin the Notice for this AGM.
The Auditors’ Report for FY 2024-25 form a part of this Annual Report and neither containsany qualification, reservation nor adverse remark.
Pursuant to Section 204 of The Companies Act, 2013 read with Rules thereof, the Boardof Directors had appointed M/s Yash Mehta & Associates, Company Secretary in Practice,Ahmedabad (M No F-12143, C P No 16535) as Secretarial Auditor of the Company for theFY 2024-25. A Secretarial Audit Report for FY 2024-25 in Form MR -3 is annexed herewiththis report herewith as “Annexure IV” to this Report.
There is following observation by Secretarial Auditor in his report against which theDirectors have clarified as follows;
1. The Promoter has made delayed submission of nil encumbrance disclosure asmentioned in Regulation 31(4) of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares andTakeovers) Regulations, 2011 in Financial Year 2024-25.
Board reply: Board has considered above remarks seriously, give assurance of futurecompliances and provide explanation in detail as under:
1. The Company has received declaration from promoters on 10th May, 2024 andsubmitted to BSE on 14th May, 2024. Hence, the Company has immediatelyforwarded the disclosure to the BSE.
The requirement of appointment of Cost Auditor and cost audit is not applicable for thefinancial year 2024-25 pursuant to the provisions of Section 148 of the Companies Act,2013.
The Board of Directors has appointed M/S Tibrewal Bhagat & Associates, Ahmedabad,as an Internal Auditor of the Company for the FY 2024-25. The Internal Auditor directlyreport to audit committee. The Company has in place a mechanism to identify, assess,monitor and mitigate various risks to key business objectives.
Your Company has established and maintained a framework of internal financial controlsand compliance systems. Based on the same and the work performed by the internalauditors, statutory auditors and the reviews performed by Top Management team and theAudit Committee, your directors are of the opinion that your Company’s Internal FinancialControls were adequate and effective during the financial year 2024-2025. Further thestatutory auditors of your company have also issued an attestation report on internal controlover financial reporting (as defined in section 143 of Companies Act 2013) for the financialyear ended March 31, 2025, which forms part to the Statutory Auditors report.
During the year, no fraud was reported by the statutory auditors under section 143(12) ofthe Act.
As stipulated in Schedule V of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements)Regulations, 2015, the Management Discussion and Analysis is given as separate sectionin this Annual Report.
Your Company has been observing the best corporate governance practices andbenchmarking itself against each such practice on an ongoing basis. The company iscommitted to transparency in all its dealings and places high emphasis on business ethics.A separate section on Corporate Governance and a Certificate from the Practicing Company
Secretary of the Company regarding compliance of the conditions of Corporate Governanceas per Regulation 34(3) read with schedule V of the SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015 formspart of this Annual Report.
As required under Companies Act, 2013 and SEBI (LODR) Regulations, the Company hasput in place Vigil Mechanism/ Whistle Blower Policy for Directors and Employees so that theDirectors can report concerns about unethical behaviour, actual or suspected fraud orviolation of the Company’s Code of Conduct Policy. The cases registered under WhistleBlower Policy of the Company, if any, are reported to and are subject to the review of theAudit Committee. The Whistle Blower Policy has been posted on the website of theCompany (www.chartered.co.in)
Based on the requirements under SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015,as amended from time to time, the code of conduct for prevention of insider trading & codefor corporate disclosures are in force. The Company has adopted Code of Conduct forprevention of Insider Trading with a view to regulate trading in securities by the Directors& designated persons of the company, as per SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading)Regulations, 2015.
The board is responsible for implementation of the code.
The Business Responsibility Report, as required under Regulation 34(2)(g) of SEBI (LODR)Regulations, 2015 is not applicable to the Company.
The company’s net profit, turnover and net worth are outside the criteria of Section 135 ofthe Companies Act, 2013, therefore, it is not required to spend any amount under CSRActivity.
We seek to promote and follow the highest level of ethical standards in all our businesstransactions guided by our value system. The SEBI (Listing Obligations and DisclosureRequirements) Regulations, 2015 mandated the formulation of certain policies for all listedcompanies. All our corporate governance policies are available on our website. Thepolicies are reviewed periodically by the Board and updated based on need and newcompliance requirement. The key policies that have been adopted by us as follows:
i. Document Retention & Archival Policy
ii. Material Event Policy
iii. Whistle bowler and vigil mechanism policy
iv. Code Of Practices and Procedures of Fair Disclosure Of UPSI
v. Related party transactions policy
vi. Code of Conduct for Directors and Senior Management
vii. Nomination and remuneration Policy
The Company follows well-established and detailed risk assessment and minimizationprocedures, which is periodically reviewed by the Board. The Company has in place abusiness risk management framework for identifying risks and opportunities that may havea bearing on the organization’s objectives, assessing them in terms of likelihood andmagnitude of impact and determining a response strategy.
The Senior Management assists the Board in its oversight of the Company’s managementof key risks, including strategic and operational risks, as well as the guidelines, policies andprocesses for monitoring and mitigating such risks under the aegis of the overall businessrisk management framework.
The Company firmly believes in providing a safe, supportive and friendly environment- aworkplace where our values come to life through the supporting behaviors. Positiveworkplace environment and a great employee experience are integral part of our culture.The Company believes in providing and ensuring a workplace free from discrimination andharassment based on gender.
The Company educates its employees as to what may constitute sexual harassment andin the event of any occurrence of an incident constituting sexual harassment; the Companyprovides the mechanism to seek recourse and redressal to the concerned individualsubjected to sexual harassment.
During the year there was no complaint of sexual harassment lodged with the Company.
The disclosures to be made under Section 134 (3) (m) of the Companies Act, 2013 readwith Rule (8)(3) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 pertaining to conservation ofenergy and technology absorption and foreign exchange earnings and outgo, are notapplicable to the Company as the company is neither involved in any manufacturing,processing activities nor any of its transactions involve foreign exchange earnings andoutgo.
The Annual Return in Form MGT-7 in accordance with Section 92(3) of the CompaniesAct, 2013 read with Companies (Management & Administration) Rules, 2014 uploaded onthe website of the Company i.e. (www.chartered.co.in)
The Company has neither made any application nor any proceedings pending under TheInsolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 during the year under review. Therefore, there areno details required to be disclosed, as the said clause is not applicable as on year ended31st March, 2025.
39. THE DETAILS OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMOUNT OF THE VALUATION DONE ATTHE TIME OF ONE TIME SETTLEMENT AND THE VALUATION DONE WHILE TAKINGLOAN FROM THE BANKS OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ALONG WITH THEREASONS THEREOF:
The Company has not availed any one-time settlement facility, during the year underreview, therefore providing of details with respect to difference in the amount of valuationdone at the time of one time Settlement and the Valuation done while taking loan from theBanks or Financial Institutions does not arise.
40. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Your Board of Directors wishes to place on record its appreciation to the contribution madeby the employees of the company. The Directors also wish to thank the Governmentauthorities, financial institutions, banks and shareholders for their cooperation andassistance extended to the company.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors,
Date: July 31,2025 Chartered Logistics Limited
Place: Ahmedabad
Lalit Kumar Gandhi Harsh Lalitkumar Gandhi
Managing Director Whole Time Director
(DIN: 00618427) (DIN: 03045752)