Your directors have pleasure in presenting to you their Thirtieth (30th)Annual Report togetherwith the audited statement of accounts of the company for the12 months ‘period ended 31stMarch2023
FTNANCTALPERFORMANCE:
A summary of the audited financial results for the financial year is brought outhere under:
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
OperatingYears
2022-23
2021-22
Income:
Revenue from operation
621.54
1825.18
Other Income
20.77
18.74
TotalIncome
642.31
1843.92
Expenses
Operating expenses before depreciation
659.72
1378.82
Depreciation,
90.04
98.64
Total Expenses
749.76
1477.46
Profit before comprehensive income
-107.44
366.46
Less: provision for tax/adju of tax for earlier years
-6.28
152.88
Profit (loss) before exceptional item and tax
-113.72
213.58
Add: other comprehensive income
55.55
30.46
Totalc omprehensive income for the period
-58.17
244.04
Total equity share capital
1101.29
Earnings per Share of Rs.10/-each
-1.03
1.94
BALANCESHEET
Description
Total Non-current Assets
2034.82
2049.21
Net current assets
1254.83
1307.63
Capital Employed
3289.65
3356.84
Represented by:
Share capital
Reserve&Surplus
2054.62
2112.79
Deferred tax liability
108.44
102.16
Loans/borrowings
25.30
40.60
Capital employed
Your company belongs to the category of Hospitality/ Hotel Industry and was operating on the leased hold land. Thelease deed has expired in July, 2022 and therefor the hotel remained functional only for part of the financial yearunder report. The operations of the hotel were as under:
1. Total overall revenue generated was Rs.. 642.31 lacs
2. The room occupancy remained worth Rs.. 178.25 lacs.
3. Food and beverage income earned was Rs. 410.17 lacs.
The Management is in consultation with some Adversary Services trying to set up new business avenues
The Management Discussion and Analysis forms a part of this report and covers amongst other matters,theperformance of the Company during the Financial Year 2022-23 as well as the future outlook.
DIVIDEND:
Keeping in view the aforesaid performance of the unit, your directors did not find it worthwhile to declare anydividend for this year too.
DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Based on the internal financial controls and compliance systems established and maintained by the Company,theworkperformed by the Board committees, the Board is of the opinion that the Company’s internal financial controlswereadequate and effective during the financial year under report. Accordingly, in term of provisions containedunderSection 134(3) (c) and 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013, the Board of Directors to the best of their knowledgeandability,confirmthat:-
a) in preparing the Annual Accounts, applicable accounting standards have been followed and there are nomaterialdepartures;
b) the Directors have selected accounting policies, applied them consistently and made judgments and estimatesthat are reasonable and prudent to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company at the end oftheFinancialYearandoftheprofitoftheCompanyfortheyear;
c) the Directors have taken proper and sufficient care in maintaining adequate accounting records in accordancewith provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud andother irregularities;
d) the Directors have prepared the Annual Accounts of the Company on a“going concern”basis;
e) the Directors have laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and such internal financialcontrols are adequate and were operatinge ffectively;and
f) The Directors have devised proper systems to ensure proper compliance with the provisions of all applicable lawsand that suchs ystems were adequate and operatinge ffectively.
The Company is committed to the high standards of corporate ethics, professionalism and transparency. Exactly halfofthe Board of the Company is comprised of independent Directors. The Company is in compliance with thegovernance
requirements provided under the Companies Act, 2013 and listing regulations. The company has in place all theCommittees required under the applicable law.
As required by Regulations of the Listing Regulations, A report on the Corporate Governance for the financialyear2022-23alongwith certificate of Auditors on Corporate Governance is annexed farming part of this report.
Pursuant to section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013, read with the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, your Companyhas complied with the requirements and thedetails of the compliances under the Act are enumerated below:
During the financial year under report,your Board of Directors met for five (5) times without allowing a gap of 120days between any two such meetings.Thedetails of which can be seen in the annexed Corporate Governance Report.
During the period under report the authorized equity share capital was 2500 Lacs divided into 250 lacs equity sharesofRs.10/-each and issuedand paidup sharecapital wasRs. 1101.29lacs. astabulated hereunder:
Categoryofshareholders
No.ofshares
held
%agetototalshare
capital
No. of holders
Promoters,friends,relativesandpersonscon
cert
5830215
52.94
15
Non-residentIndians
1001157
9.09
44
Indiangeneralpublic
4181528
37.97
3141
Total
11012900
100.00
3200
The equity shares of the company are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (BSE) and its security code is532124andthecompanyhas paidthe prescribed listingfeeto theBSE.
In the matter of constitution of the Board of Directors, the provisions contained under the section149 and section 152ofthe Companies Act, 2013, have been observed. Other details of Board of Directors can be seen in theCorporateGovernance parttothisreport
The Board of Directors of the Company comprised of a total 5 (five) directors and ratio of category of non-executiveindependentand executivedirector has been 60:40
Ms. SanoberBano, Director, retires by rotation at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting and being eligible,offersherself for her re-appointment. The Board of Directors recommend re-appointment of Ms. SanoberBano, as aDirectoron theBoard.
In term of Section 149(7) of the Companies Act, 2013, all the three independent Directors of the Company havegivenrequisite declarations that they continue to meet the criteria of independence and your board is also of theopinion thatall ofthemmeet the independencecriteria.
Other details about the Board can be seen in the Corporate Governance Report that forms part of this report.CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)COMMITTEE:
Although your company does not satisfy the criteria of net worth and turnover required for attracting the provisionsofcorporate responsibility contained under Section 135, of the Companies Act, 2013, and, therefore, it need not to goforconstitution of committee for Corporate Social Responsibilities and fulfill other requirements of the law on thesubject,it still recognizes the need to minimize the impact of operation of its only hotel unit on environment. The hotelunit ofthe Company maintains large gardens in -and -around all its properties. The Company has made substantialinvestmentforimprovingenergyefficiencies and freshwatermanagement initsonlyhotel property.
Interms of Section 177 of the Companies Act,2013, your Company has an Audit Committee constituted of thefollowing Directors:
(a) Mr .RanjayK.Dawar,Non-executive IndependentDirector-Chairman
(b) Mr.PanchenaGopinath,Non-executiveIndependentDirector,Member
(c) Mr.Siva Ramakrishna GuntupalliRamakrishna ,Non-ExecutiveIndependentDirector.
All the members of the committee arefinancially literate within the meaning of explanation under regulation18(1)(c) ofSEBI(Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations,2015 (“Listing Regulations”) other details can beseen in the report on corporate governance
Although the operations of the company do not involve any manufacturing and processing activities and the provisionscontained under Section 134 dealing with conservation of energy are not squarely applicable to it, being conscious ofconservation of energy, the company has taken following steps in conservation of electric energy:
1. Installation of LED lights in lobby, public areas and corridors in placeof CFL lights.
2. Improvingpowerfactorandreducinglinelosses byinstallingsuitable capacitor
FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING:
During the financial year 2022-23 and like last year, the company could not earn any foreign exchange gain at all.AUDITORS:
At the 28th Annual General Meeting of the Compnay held on 29th day of Sept. 2021, M/s. Parekh Shah &Lodha, aMumbai base firm of Chartered Accountants holding firm registration No. 10748W had been re-appointed as statutoryauditors of the Company for a period of 5 years to hold the office as such till conclusion of the 32 AGM of theCompany .Accordingly the said firm continues to hold the office as such.
SECRETARIALAUDIT:
Secretarial Audit of listed Share Capital:
Pursuant to provisions under Section 204 (1) of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Appointment andRemuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules,2014,the Board of Directors of the Company hadappointed M/s.BaldevDudea & Associates, Company Secretaries, to undertake the Secretarial Audit of the Company for the financialyearended March 31, 2023. The secretarial audit report submitted by the auditors does not contain anyqualification,reservation or adverse remarks.
The said secretarial Auditors also carried out the job of reconciling the total admitted capital with NSDL and CDSLand the total issued and listed capital. The said audit confirms that the total issued/paidup capital tallies with the totalnumber of shares in physical form and the total number of dematerialized shares held with NSDL and CDSL
As of the end of March 31, 2023, shares comprising approximately 9324000 being 84.66% of the Company's EquityShare Capital have been dematerialized
The Secretarial Audit Reportis attached as Annexure-A to this report.
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS:
No material contract has been entered into by the Company with related parties and none of the contract ortransactions with related parties fall within the purview of section188(1) of the Act and therefore notransactions arereported in form no.AOC-2 interm of Section 134of the Act read withRule 8 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules2014.
Other transactions with related parties are entered into an arm’s length basis details of which are set out UnderNoteNo28 tostandalonefinancialstatements.
Pursuant to the Section 92(3) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rule 12(1) of the Companies (ManagementandAdministration) Rules 2014, the extract of annual return in prescribed form MGT-9 is annexed as Annexure-B tothisreport.
During the period under report, the Company did not accept any deposits from public.
In Accordance With the section177(9) of the Companies Act 2013 and rules framed there-under read withRegulations 22 of the Listing Regulations, the Company has a Whistleblower Policy for its directors and employees toreport concern about unethical behavior, actual or suspected fraud or violation of the Company’s Code of Conduct.The policy provides for protected disclosures that can be made by a whistle blower to the Chairperson of auditcommittee. The policy isaccessibleonthewebsite of the hotel undertaking www.noorussabahpalace.co.in.During thefinancial year under report no complain under mechanism is received.
During the financial year 2021-22 the Board of Directors met for 5 Times without allowing a period of 120daysbetween the two consecutive meetings, the details of which can be seen under the head of “CorporateGovernance” ofthereport.
The Company does not have any subsidiary and associates and therefore it has nothing to reportin respect thereof
Reliable Ventures India Limited is its ultimate holding company.
The Key Managerial Personnel(KMP) in the Company as per Section 2(51) and 203 ofthe Companies Act,2013areas follows:
1. Mr. Sikandar HafizKhan,Chairman andManagingDirector
2. Mr.SSRaghuwanshi,CompanySecretaryandcomplianceofficer.
Disclosure under Section 197 read withrule 5(1)of the Companies Act,2013 read with Companies(Appointment andRemunerationof managerialPersonnel) Rules 2014,is given in the attached annexure“C” to this report
During the period under report,the Company does not have any employees on its roll that was employedthroughout theyear and was in receipt of remuneration aggregating to Rs.1.02 croreslacs or more or was employed topart of the year andwas in receipt of remuneration aggregating to Rs. 8.50 lacs per month. Hence information underSection 197(12) of theAct, read with Rule 5(2) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration and ManagerialPersonnel) Rules 2014 isnil
During the period under report,and till date the Company has not given any loans,guarantees and madeinvestment.
The Company’s policy on directors’ appointment and remuneration and other matters provid ed under Section 178(3)oftheActhasbeen disclosedintheCorporateGovernance Reportthatforms partofthe DirectorsReport.
Your company has an Internal Control System tailored to size and the nature of its operations aimed atprovidingreasonable assurance respecting recording and providing reliable financial and operational information,complying withapplicable laws, safeguarding assets from unauthorized use, executing transactions under properauthorization andcomplianceofinternalpolicies.
The system is manned by a full time accountant and IT experts. The Audit committee deliberates with themembersofthemanagement,andstatutoryauditorsofthecompanyastotheappropriatenessofthesystemlaydownandcarry outneed-based review thereof to conform to the requirements of the Company satisfies itself of the adequacyandeffectiveness of the system .The Committee also keeps the board of directors informed accordingly., Your board isofviewthecontrolsystemiseffective and optimum
TheBoardoftheCompanyhasapprovedthe RiskManagementPolicyinitsmeetingheldon2ndFebruary,
2015 and also formed a Risk Management Committee (RMC) to implement and monitor the risk management planfortheCompany.
The performance of the Board as a whole, its independent, executive and none executive directors has been carriedoutin term and based on criteria specified in the formal Performance Evaluation policy approved by the Board. Thedetailsinthematterofevaluationcriteria,process etc.isgiveninthe CorporateGovernancepartofthis report.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Act and Regulation 17(10) of the Listing Regulations, a Board Evaluation Policyhasbeen put inplace.
A structured questionnaire covering various aspects of the Board’s functioning, Board culture, performance ofspecificduties by Directors and contribution to the Board proceedings was circulated to the members of the Board...Based on the responses received,the Board as a whole,the Committees,the Chair person and individual Directorswere separately evaluated in the separate meeting of the Independent Directors and at theMeeting of the Board ofDirectors.
The process of review of Non-Independent Directors and the Board as a whole and also its committees wereundertakenin a separate meeting of Independent Directors without the attendance of Non- Independent Directors andmembers ofthemanagement.
At the meeting, the performance of the Chairman of the Company was reviewed taking into account the views of theExecutive Directors,Non-executive Directors and Independent Directors. The meeting also assessedthequality,quantity and timeliness of the flow of information required for the Board to perform its duties properly. Theentire Board of Directors, excluding the Director being evaluated,e valuated the performance of each IndependentDirector.TheDirectorshaveexpressed theirsatisfaction withthe evaluation process.
During the financial year under report, there are no significant or material orders passed by regulator, court ortribunalimpactingthegoingconcern statusoftheCompanyorits future operations.
The company has an internal complaint committee under the Sexual Harassment of Women At Work place(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 for prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment andfor mattersconcerned,connected or incidental thereto.
During the financial year under report, the company did not receive any complaint at all from any person connectedtotheCompany.
The Board takes this opportunity to thank all employees for their commitment,dedication and co-operation
.Byorder of theBoard
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Bhopal: 14-08-2023