Your directors have pleasure in presenting herewith the 32nd Audited Annual Report for the yearended on 31st March, 2024 of your Company.
The Financial performance of the company during the year is as under:
(Amount Rs.in Thousands)
PARTICULARS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED ON31/03/2024
FOR THE YEAR ENDED ON31/03/2023
Revenue from Operations
NIL
Other Income
Total Income including Depreciation and Amortization
Total Expenses
638.99
10.68
Profit Before Exceptional Items and Tax
-638.99
-10.68
Exceptionl Item
-1000.00
38.71
Tax Expenses
0
Deferred Tax
Provision for FBT.
Profit / (Loss) After Tax.Transferred to Reserve andSurplus in Balance Sheet.
-1638.99
28.03
Net Earnings per share.
-0.28
0.48
Reserve And Surplus
-970.97
-581.60
During the year the company was not engaged in any commercial business operations ofManufacturing, Trading or providing services. The Revenue from such operations during the year isNIL. The Company has incurred an expenditure in the nature of General Administrative Expenses ofRs. 638.99 Thousand. Hence, the company has incurred a net operational loss of Rs. 638.99 lacswhich was Rs. 1068.08 Thousands in the previous year. However, the company has reversed its Longterm Investment Losses (Impairment Losses of Rs. 71.62 Lacs and after making necessaryadjustments for conversion of Long term investments loss of Rs. 33.9 lacs, thus total Impairmentlosses of Rs. 38.71 lacs is accounted for as an Exceptional Item which was earlier provided Pleaserefer to note nu. 15 titled Exceptional Items in the audited balance sheet attached.
In the view of accumulated and carried forwarded losses your Directors have not recommended anyamount to be paid as Dividend to shareholders.
The company has made net Loss of Rs. 1638.99 Thousands after necessary adjustments in earlieryears financial loss in the previous year. This is due to mainly non operation of any type ofcommercial business activities in the company during the year.
The company does not have holding or subsidiary companies during the year and no other companyhas become holding / subsidiary/ joint venture. There as no investments of more than 20% inany other body corporate by the company Hence there was no Associate / Group Companies.
During the year under review there were no changes in the Authorized, Issued, Subscribed and Paid-upShare Capital Structure of the Company.
The Company has not invited nor accepted any public deposit during the year under review and noamount against the same was outstanding at the end of the year.
In conformity with Regulations of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirement)2015, the CashFlow Statement for the year ended 31.03.2024 is annexed hereto. The equity shares of the Company arelisted on the BSE Ltd. The Company has paid listing fees for the year 2023-24 to BSE.
After closure of the Financial Year the B S E Ltd has sent an e.mail to the company informing that it hasimposed a financial penalty (Inclusive of GST) of Rs. 53.91 Lacs for late compliance/ non compliance ofcertain Reulations/ clauses of SEBI (LODR) 2015. However, the company has made necessary applicationin prescribed format by paying penalty waiver fees to BSE Ltd for reduction/ waiver of some of thepenalties which are exorbitant or wrongly calculated and the company is not in a financial position topay such huge amount of penalty. The application is at the active stage of consideration of BSE Ltd. Themanagement is hopeful of substantial reduction in this huge amount of penalty imposed. Further themanagement is also in search of some financial arrangements to pay off such penalty in time.
The Company's Total paid up equity share capital is less than Rs. 10 crores and its total Net worth is lessthan Rs. 25 crores, Hence, the Company is being treated as Small Company and as such as per SEBI(LODR) 2015 Regulation Number: 15(2) your company is exempt from making compliance withRegulations No. 17 to 27, Clause- B to I of Sub Regulation 2 of Regulation 45 and Para C, D and E of
Schedule V. Accordingly, except the statement on" Management Discussion and Analyses Report," your
Directors have though formed the sub-Committees of the Board as per requirements of CorporateGovernance and they are operational, however, no detailed Report on Compliance with Conditions ofCorporate Governance report are given here with. The Company is exempted from providing report onCorporate Governance in accordance with regulation 34(3) and schedule V(C) to the SEBI (ListingObligations and Disclosure Requirements), Regulations, 2015.
Considering very minimum financial transactions in the company just to meet the routinAdministrative expenses, the Company has not appointed an Independent firm of CharteredAccountants to act as an Internal Auditor as per suggestion of auditors and recommendation of theAudit Committee in order to strengthen the internal control system for the Company. The Boardwill appoint an Internal Auditors as and when it deem fit and proper considering the adequatenumber of business, commercial operations and more financial transactions of varied nature.
The provisions of Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Companies (Corporate SocialResponsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 are not applicable to your Company.
Your Company's Equity shares are admitted in the System of Dematerialization by both the Depositoriesnamely NSDL and CDSL. The Company has signed tripartite Agreement through Registrar and ShareTransfer Agent M/s Skyline Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. The Investors are advised to take advantage oftimely dematerialization of their securities. The ISIN allotted to your Company is INE025D01013. TotalShare dematerialized up to 31st March 2024 were 54,47,200 which constitute 92.59% of total capital.Your directors request all the shareholders to dematerialize their shareholding in the company as earlyas possible.
The Company has not entered into related parties' transactions for sale/purchase of goods or servicesat preferential prices. However, all the transactions in the nature of sales/purchase of goods orservices are made on arm's length basis. The same were reported to the Board at every meetingand Board took a note of the same and approved. Other details for inter corporate financialtransactions or remuneration and other benefits paid to directors, their relatives, key managerialpersonnel etc. are given in the notes to the accounts as per requirements of AS 18. Company hasformulated various other policies such as Evaluation of Board Performance Policy etc. All suchpolicies were documented and adopted by the Board in its meeting.
As the Company is loss making one, the provisions related to CSR is presently not applicable to theCompany.
Regarding Performance Review of each of the member of the Board and also the performance of thevarious Committees and the Board, the Company has adopted the Model Code of Conduct forIndependent Directors, Key Managerial Personnel as prescribed in Schedule IV to the Companies Act,2013 and also as prescribed in the SEBI (Insider Trading) Regulations. The Company strictly follows theprocedure to obtain necessary timely declarations from each of the directors and key managerialpersonnel.
Management's discussion and perceptions on existing business, future outlook of the industry,future expansion and diversification plans of the Company and future course of action for thedevelopment of the Company are fully explained in a separately in Corporate Governance Report.
The company has not invited or accepted any Deposit, Loans or finance from the public in violation ofsection 73(1) of Companies Act 2013 or any rules made there under.
Mr. Dinesh S. Rao a Managing Director will retire by rotation at the ensuing Annual General Meeting asper provisions of Law. He is eligible for Reappointment and offers himself for reappointment.
During the year under review the Company has not made any inter corporate loans, investments, givenany corporate guarantee to any other body corporate, subsidiary, associate or any other company.
During the year, the company held total 6 Board meetings on 05/05/2023, 14/07/2023, 14/08/2023,10/11/2023, 27/01/2024, 14/02/2024. All the Directors were present at all the board meetings toconsider various businesses and pass necessary resolutions. The 31st Annual General Meeting of theCompany was held on 21st September 2023 in physical mode.
The Company has disclosed all the material information to the stock exchanges and the Registrar ofCompanies Office in time as per requirements of law and SEBI (LODR) 2015.
Directors present at the Meeting of board:
Names of Director
05/05/2023
14/07/2023
14/08/2023
10/11/2023
27/01/2024
14/02/2024
DINESHKUMAR S RAO
Yes
ALPESH KIRITBHAI PATEL
RADHESHYAM RAMPALPATEL
PRAKA SH N SH AH
The audit committee of the Board of Directors is as under:
Sr. no.
Name of Director / Memberof Audit Committee
Designation incommittee
No. of
Meeting
Attended
Dates of CommitteeMeeting
1.
Chairman
6
05/05/2023, 14/07/2023,14/08/2023, 10/11/2023,27/01/2024, 14/02/2024
2.
RADHESHYAM RAMPAL PATEL
Member
3.
PRAKASH N SHAH
The audit Committee is headed by Alpesh K. Patel as Chairman. He has more than 30 years ofConstruction experience. He is further assisted by one non-executive independent directors namelyRadheshyam R Patel and by Whole Time Director & CFO Mr. Prakash N. Shah. He has thoroughknowledge of working, usage and accounting for financial transactions as per requirements ofCompanies Act and the Stock Exchange requirements.
The Committee meets at least once every quarter and prepares its minutes on the proceedings andbusiness discussed and transacted. The Committee reports to Board of Directors. All committee reportsand minutes are placed before the Board in all its meetings for information, guidance, directions andrecord keeping. In addition, the Committee also reviews the internal control systems operating withinthe organization and obtains guidance from the statutory auditors and other professionals of corporaterepute from time to time to make timely compliances and payment of statutory dues.
The Committee acts as a bridge between the Statutory Auditors and the Board of Directors of theCompany. It is authorized to select and establish accounting policies, review reports of the StatutoryAuditors and meet with them to discuss and deliberate their suggestions, findings and other relatedmatters. Further, the committee is authorized to, inter alia, monitor, review and evaluate theAuditor's independence, performance and effectiveness of the audit process, overseeing of theCompany's financial reporting process and the disclosure of its financial information, and review thequarterly, half yearly and annual financial statements before submission to the Board for approval.
Further the committee is liable to examine the financial statements and the Auditors' Reportthereon, approve transactions of the Company with its related parties including consequentmodifications thereof, grant omnibus approvals subject to fulfillment of certain conditions, analyzeinter-corporate loans and investments, valuation of undertakings or assets of the Companywherever it is necessary. Further, it is also empowered to review the Management Discussion andAnalysis of financial condition and results of operations and statement of significant related partytransactions. It also looks into any other matter as referred to it by the Board of Directors from timeto time.
Generally, all the items stated in Section 177(4) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Point A of Part C of theSchedule II of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 are coveredunder the roles of the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee has been granted powers as prescribedunder provisions of the Regulation 18(2)(c) of the aforesaid Regulations and reviews all the informationas prescribed in Point B of the Part C of the Schedule II of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and DisclosureRequirements) Regulations, 2015.
This committee looks into investor complaints if any, and redresses the same expeditiously.Beside the committee approves allotment, transfer & transmission of shares, debentures, anynew certificates on split \ consolidation \ renewal etc. as may be referred to it by the Board ofDirectors. In addition, the committee also looks in to compliance with stock exchange listingagreement and circulation of shareholder and general public interest information through propermedia and stock exchanges from time to time.
The Shareholders'/Investors Grievance Committee presently comprise all Non-Executive Directors.During the year the Committee held 12 meeting (Last Saturday of every month) The Attendance ofMembers at the Meeting was as follows:
Name
Type
No. of MeetingAttended
12
The company has merged in this committee its earlier committee of share Transfer. This Committeelooks in to all aspects related to Shares, Bonds Securities and retail investors. The committee also looksafter the dematerialization process of equity shares. The Committee is also empowered to keepcomplete records of shareholders, statutory registers relating to shares and securities, maintaining of
the complete record of share dematerialized, and complaints received from investors and other variousagencies.
The committee meets every month to approve all the cases of shares demat, transfer, issue of duplicateand resolution of the investors' complaints, submission of information to various statutory authoritieslike NSDL / CDSL, SEBI, stock Exchanges, Registrar of companies periodically. Other roles duties powersetc. have been clearly defined in line with the Regulation 20 of listing obligation and disclosurerequirement rules of SEBI and kept flexible by the Board from time to time.
The Nomination and Remuneration committee comprises all 3 independent Directors which are asunder:
1
RAJESH SUTARIA
The remuneration committee comprises of all non-executive independent directors.
(i) To ascertain the requirements of and appointment of Key Managerial personals.
(ii) To prescribe rules, regulations, policy, requirements of qualifications and experience of keymanagerial personnel.
(iii) To decide the terms of conditions of employment and responsibilities, authorities of allexecutive directors, Managing Director and to ensure that they discharge their duties diligently andreport to Board regularly.
(iv) To fix the remuneration payable to Managing Director, Executive Director, Whole TimeDirectors.
(v) To decide on distribution of profits as commission amongst various executive and non-executivedirectors.
(vi) To design, frame and make policy for remuneration payable for key managerial personnel andup to 3rd rank departmental heads by way of issue of shares as ESOP or stock options or otherwiseincluding to provide staff loans/ advances to subscribe to any ESOPs or Stock options by employees ofthe company.
Further except the cash reimbursement of actual expenses incurred by directors, no other benefitsin the form of stock options or ESOP etc. are being offered to any directors of the Company or to anykey managerial personnel for the year. As the company has long overdue accumulated losses in itsbooks of accounts; it is not paying any sitting fees or commission of net profit or any otherremuneration in kind to any of its directors. The Company does not have any key managerialpersonnel receiving remuneration of more than Rs. 200,000/- Per Month. The company is regular inlabor compliances and payment of statutory labor dues with relevant authorities in time.
Other function roles duties powers etc. have been clearly defined in line with the Regulation 19 of listingobligation and disclosure requirement rules of SEBI and kept flexible for medication by the Board fromtime to time.
NUMBER OF BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEETING HELD DURING THE YEAR:
Name of the Committee
No. of Meeting held
Board Of Directors
Audit Committee of Board
Nomination Remuneration Committee
Stakeholders Relationship Committee(Formerly Shareholders' /Investor GrievanceCommittee)
(Pursuant to Provisions of section 149(6) OF the Companies Act 2013)
All the Independent Directors of the Company do hereby declare that:
(1) All the Independent Directors of the Company are neither Managing Director, nor a Whole TimeDirector nor a manager or a Nominee Director.
(2) All the Independent Directors in the opinion of the Board are persons of integrity andpossesses relevant expertise and experience.
(3) Who are or were not a Promoter of the Company or its Holding or subsidiary or associatecompany.
(4) Who are or were not related to promoters or directors in the company, its holding, subsidiaryor associate company
(5) Who has or had no pecuniary relationship with the company, its holding, subsidiary or associatecompany or their promoters or directors, during the two immediately preceding financial yearsor during the current financial year.
(6) None of whose relatives has or had pecuniary relationship or transaction with the company, itsholding, subsidiary, or associate company, or their promoters, or directors, amounting to twoper cent or more of its gross turnover or total income or fifty lacs rupees or such higher amountas may be prescribed, whichever is lower, during the two immediately preceding financial yearsor during the current financial year,
(7) Who neither himself, nor any of his relatives,
(a) Holds or has held the position of a key managerial personnel or is or has been employee of thecompany or its holding, subsidiary or associate company in any of three financial yearsimmediately preceding the financial year in which I\he is proposed to be appointed.
(b) Is or has been an employee or proprietor or a partner, in any of the three financial yearsimmediately preceding the financial years in which he is proposed to be appointed of
(i) A firm of auditors or company secretaries in practice or cost auditors of the company or itsholding, subsidiary or associate company; OR
(ii) Any legal or a consulting firm that has or had any transaction with the company, itsholding, subsidiary or associate company amounting to ten per cent, or more of the
gross turnover of such firm;
(iii) Holds together with his relatives two per cent, or more of the total voting power of thecompany; OR
(iv) Is a Chief Executive or director, by whatever name called, or any non-profit organizationthat receives twenty-five per cent or more of its receipts from the Company, any of itspromoters, directors or its holding, subsidiary or associate company or that holds two percent or more of the total voting power of the company; OR
(v) Who possesses such other qualifications as may be prescribed.
(vi) All the Independent Directors are not Registered on the Websitewww.independentdirectorsdatabank.in and none of them have passed the requisitequalification to become an Independent Director. However, they were appointed assuch prior to the date of coming in to notification in this behalf.
In terms of section 134 Clause (C) of Sub-Section (3) of the Companies Act, 2013, in relation to financial
statements for the year 2015-16, the Board of Directors state:
a) In the preparation of the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2024, as faras possible and to the extent, if any, accounting standards mentioned by the auditorsin theirreport as not complied with, all other applicable accounting standards have beenfollowed along with proper explanation relating to material departure;
b) The Directors have selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently andmade judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fairview of the state of affairs of the Company at the end of the financial year and profit and lossaccount of the Company for that period;
c) The Directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accountingrecords in accordance with the provisions of this Act for safeguarding the assets of the Companyand for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;
d) The Directors have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis; and
e) The directors in the case of a listed company had laid down internal financial controls to befollowed by the company and that such internal financial controls are adequate and wereoperating effectively.
f) The Directors have devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of allapplicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.
In compliance with Section 178 (1) as also in compliance with applicable Regulations of SEBI (LODR),
2015 the Board of Directors does hereby declare that:
a. The Company has proper constitution of the Board of Directors including independentdirectors in proportion as per requirement of SEBI (LODR), 2015. Except that it has notappointed a Woman Director in the Company.
b. The Company has constituted Nomination and Remuneration Committee, StakeholdersRelationship Committee, Audit Committee as per requirements of the SEBI (LODR), 2015andprovisions of the Companies Act 2013.
c. me company has the policy Tor selection ana appointment ot independent directors who arepersons of reputation in the society, have adequate educational qualification, sufficient businessexperience and have integrity & loyalty towards theirduties.
d. The Company has policy to pay managerial remuneration to its Managing/Whole Time Directorsbased upon their qualification, experience and past remuneration received by them from theirprevious employers and company's financial position.
e. The Independent Directors are not paid sitting Tee.
f. The Company is not paying any commission on net profits to any directors.
g. During the year the Board has met 6 times during the year. The details of presence of everydirector at each meeting of the Board including the meetings of the Committees, if any, aregiven in this report as mentioned elsewhere.
1. The Board makes evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of every individual director,committee of directors, independent directors and board as a whole.
2. For these purposes the Board makes evaluation twice in a year on a half yearly basis.
3. The performance of individual directors is evaluated by the entire Board, excluding the Directorbeing evaluated on the basis of presence of every director at a meeting, effective participationin discussion of each business agenda, feedback receives from every director on draft of theminutes and follow up Tor action taken reports from first line management.
4. Effectiveness and performance of various committees are evaluated on the basis of the scopeof work assign to each of the committees, the action taken by the committees are reviewsand evaluated on the basis of minutes and agenda papers Tor each of the committeemeetings.
5. The performance of independent directors is evaluated on the basis of their participation at themeetings and post meeting follow up and communication from each of such independentdirectors.
Particulars of the employees as required under provisions of Section 197 (12) of the Act read with Rule5 of The Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 asamended from time to time, are not attached with this report since there was no employee whowas in receipt of remuneration in excess of Rs. 8,50,000 per month during the year or Rs. 1.2 Cr. perannum in the aggregate if employed Tor a part of the year.
The Board of directors had already appointed M/s. Dhrumil A Shah & Co., Chartered Accountants,Ahmedabad Tor the next term of 5 years i.e. from 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028 and to hold the officeas such from the date of conclusion of 31st AGM up to the date of conclusion of 36th AGM of theCompany. The new auditors have given their consent in writing under section 139 on 31st July 2023.
Your directors recommend to pass the resolution at the ensuing AGM with requisite majority.
The Company has appointed M/s. J D KHATNANI & ASSOCIATES. as the secretarial auditor for the financialyear 2023-24. They have given their report in the prescribed form MR-3 which is annexed to this reportas an ANNEXURE A.
The Company is not engaged in any type of manufacturing activities of the products which requires itscost records to be audited and is also not coming within the perview of maintaining the cost records formanufacturing activities. Hence, no cost auditors are to be appointed.
The Information required to be disclosed in the report of the Board of Directors as per the provisions ofSection 134 of the Companies Act-2013 and the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report ofBoard of Directors) Rules 1988 regarding the conservation of energy; technology absorption, foreignexchange earnings and outgo are not applicable to the company. As Company is not manufacturing anyproduct or providing any services. As there was no commercial business activities during the year, theCompany has not Earned any foreign Exchange nor it has incurred any foreign exchange expenses.
1. No material changes have taken place after the closure of the financial year and up to the dateof this report which may have substantial effect on the business and financial of the Company.
2. No significant and material orders have been passed by any of the regulators or courts ortribunals impacting the going concern status and companies operations in future.
The statutory auditors have expressed in their report that the company's entire networh has beeneroded and it has no sufficient cash flow. It has already sold its real estate like Factory buildings, plantand machineries and other assets. There is a considerable ground and doubts about the continuing thebusiness operations in future. However, the company has continued to account its financial transactionson going concern basis.
The Management is hopeful of starting trading in Iron, Steel and such other constructionmaterials products on credit terms as its directors have good reputation in the market andpersonal contacts. They are also exploring opportunity to raise further funds through furtherissue of shares or other securities to prospective investors or any proposed joint venturepartner in the company. Considering this fact the management has continued to account itsfinancial transactions on going concern basis.
The Secretarial Auditors have made their observation in their report as under:
However, the Non-Executive Non-Promoter Independent Directors Mr. Alpesh K Patel and Mr.Radheshyam Rampal Lodh, have not yet registered as an Independent Director on MCA Website as well asthey have also not passed the requisite qualifying test to become an independent Director. However, theywere already appointed as such prior to the date of coming in to force of the Notification requiringIndependent Directors to pass the qualifying examinations.
We further report that the website of the Stock Exchange BSE Ltd still shows following persons asDirectors/ KMP, even though they are as on date not the directors or KMP of the Company. The Companyneeds to take adequate steps to update BSE in this regard. Company is non Compliant in variousRegulations Under SEBI (LODR) REGULATIONS, 2015 and Companies Act 2013.
Mr. Ramesh Mistry Chairman and Director (Name to be removed from BSE Website)
Ms. Trupti Dhaval Jain, Woman Director (Name to be removed from BSE Website)
Mr Ramanugrah Singh, Non Executive Independtn Director (Name to be removed)
Mr Suhag Vijaykumar Shah, Chief Financial Officer (Name to be removed).
Mr. Harsh Shah, the Company Secretary had resigned w.e.f. 04/02/2023. The Company is yet to appoint anew company secretary in his place.
The Company's total networth is eroded. It has no sufficient financial means to start and continue anybusiness operations. It is as on date not able to afford the salary of professional persons like CompanySecretary and looking to present conditions of the company no company secretaries are willing to comeand join the company at this stage. Regarding Non-Disqualification of Independent Directors, as theywere appointed prior to the date of new notification, and they are continuing as director. Their term ofoffice now expires at the next Annual General Meeting in the year 2023-24 AGM. Thereafter thecompany will appoint new adequately qualified directors as an Independent Director. Regardingupdation of websites of BSE and Company the management is taking immediate steps to rectify andupdate the records to show the correct position as early as possible.
APPRECIATION
Your directors place on records their sincere appreciation for the valuable support and co-operationas received from government authorities, Financial Institutions and Banks during the year. TheDirectors are also thankful for the support extended by Customers, Suppliers and contribution madeby the employees at all level. The Directors would also like to acknowledge continued patronageextended by Company's shareholders in its entire endeavor.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Date: 14th AUGUST 2024 Heera Ispat Limited
Place: Ahmedabad
Sd/-
(DINESHKUMAR S RAO)
Chairman And Managing Director(DIN: 06379029)