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BSE: 505720ISIN: INE688E01024INDUSTRY: Engineering - General

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Year End :2021-03 

We present our 59th Annual Report together with the Audited Financial Accounts for the year ended March 31, 2021:

1. Financial Results

(Rs. in Lakhs)

Financial Results

As on

March 31, 2021

As on

March 31, 2020

Revenue from Operations

7837.19

8299.84

Other Income

850.13

1493.27

Total Income

8687.32

9793.11

Profit before Finance Cost & Depreciation

1245.22

1954.01

Less- Finance Cost

0.89

1.91

Less-Depreciation

289.25

353.19

Profit before taxes

955.08

1598.91

Provision for taxation for the year (including deferred tax and Earlier year's income-tax adjustment)

178.62

300.99

Profit after Taxes

776.46

1297.92

2. Dividend

The Directors recommend for consideration of the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting payment of dividend of Rs. 1.50 per Equity Share of Re.1.00 each for the year ended March 31, 2021 as against Rs. 1.80 per Equity Shares of Rs. 1.00 each in the previous year.

3. Operations

The revenue from operation of Rs. 7837.19 lakhs is down by 5.57% as compared to the previous year's revenue from operation of Rs. 8299.84 Lakhs. The net profit of Rs. 776.46 is down by 40.18%, as compared to previous year's net profit of Rs. 1297.92 lakhs.

The period leading up to the lockdown and the subsequent stoppage of all economic activities from 23rd March 2020 in financial year 2019-20 has adversely affected your company's operations as well as the large part of Q1 of financial year 2020-21. Moreover, even after the restart of the operation in May 2020, the production continued to suffer due to disruption in supply chain which impacted delivery of raw materials and components from vendors and consequent effect on production, billing, and dispatches.

The second wave of covid in end of the financial year 2020-21 has again created new challenges in sales, supply chain and operations. Despite such multi-pronged challenges, the Company could achieve relatively good performance during the financial year 2020-21. The company hopes that situation will improve soon, and the company will be able to achieve better results.

The Company's 4 Windmills produced 39.91 Lakhs units of energy in the current year, as against 68.90 Lakhs units of energy produced in the previous year.

4. Directors and Key Managerial Personnel-Changes

As per section 152 (6) of the Companies Act, 2013, Shri Shekhar Bajaj is liable to retire by rotation at the ensuring Annual General Meeting and being eligible, offer himself for re-appointment. The Board recommends his re-appointment for the consideration of the Members of the Company at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting. The Board of Directors have re-appointed Shri H A Nevatia as a Director in Whole-time employment of the Company with effect from November 22, 2020 for a period of two years. The Special Resolution for approval of his appointment as a "Whole-time Director" is given in the notice. The detailed profiles of both Directors are given under the head "Corporate Governance".

The members at the Annual General Meeting held on September 16, 2020 vide special resolution, had approved the re-appointment of Smt Shruti Jatia and Shri Vandan Shah, an Independent Directors for second term of five years, effective November 12, 2019 and February 6, 2021, respectively.

5. Independent Directors

The Independent Directors have submitted the Declaration of Independence, as required pursuant to section 149(7) of the Companies Act, 2013. In the opinion of the Board, the Independent Directors, fulfil the conditions of independence

specified in Section 149(6) of the Act and Regulation 16(1) (b) of the Listing Regulations. The Independent Directors have also confirmed that they have complied with the Company's Code of Business Conduct & Ethics. All Independent Directors of the Company have valid registration in the Independent Director's databank of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs as required under Rule 6(1) of the Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Director) Fifth Amendment Rules, 2019. The terms and conditions of appointment including the code of conduct and the duties of independent directors as laid down in the Companies Act, 2013 are placed on the website of the Company. The details of familiarization programme for the independent directors are explained in the Corporate Governance Report.

6. AuditorsA) Statutory Auditor

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 139 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules made thereunder, the auditors of the Company, M/s. Kanu Doshi Associates LLP, Chartered Accountants, Mumbai were appointed as Statutory Auditors of the Company for a period of five consecutive years at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Members held August 9, 2017. The statutory auditors of the Company shall hold office from the conclusion of the 55th AGM of the Company till the conclusion of the 60th AGM. The Audit Report for FY 2020-21 is unmodified, i.e., it does not contain any qualification, reservation, or adverse remark.

B) Cost Auditor:

Pursuant to Section 148 of the Companies Act, 2013 and rules made thereunder, the Board of Directors had on the recommendation of the Audit Committee, appointed M/s R Nanabhoy & Co. Cost Accountants, to audit the cost accounts of the Company for the financial year 2021-22 at a remuneration of Rs. 52,000/-plus GST, reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses, subject to ratification by the shareholders at ensuing Annual General Meeting. Accordingly, a Resolution seeking Members' ratification for the remuneration payable to Cost Auditors is given in the notice. There is no audit qualification for the Cost Audit Report for the year ended March 31, 2020 under review.

C) Secretarial Auditor:

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the rule made thereunder, the Company has appointed M/s S N Ananthasubramaniam & Co, Company Secretaries, to undertake the Secretarial Audit of the Company. The Report of the Secretarial Audit Report is annexed herewith as "Annexure B". There is no secretarial audit qualification for the year ended March 31, 2021 under review. The Company is in compliance with the applicable Secretarial Standards.

7. Significant and Material orders passed by the Regulators or Court

During the year in review, there were no significant and material orders passed by the Regulators or Courts or Tribunals, which may impact the going concern status of the Company and its operations in future.

8. Internal Control over system and financial reporting

The Company's internal control system is commensurate with its size, scale, and complexities of its operations. The internal and operational audit is entrusted to M/s Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP. The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors periodically reviews the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control systems and suggests improvements to strengthen the same. The Company has policies and procedure in place for reliable financial reporting.

9. Material Changes & Commitments

There have been no material changes and commitments, affecting the financial position of the company, which have occurred between the end of the financial year of the company and the date of this report.

10. Presentation of Financial Results

The financial results of the Company for the year ended March 31, 2021 have been disclosed as per Schedule III of the Companies Act, 2013.

The financial statements up to year ended March 31, 2021 were prepared in accordance with the accounting standards notified under Companies (Accounting Standard) Rules 2006 as amended and other relevant provisions of the act.

The annexed financial statements comply in all material aspects with Indian Accounting Standards (IND AS) notified as per Companies (Indian Account Standard) Rules 2015 under section 133 of the Companies Act 2013 and other relevant provisions of the act.

11. Risk Management

Risk management is embedded in your Company's operating framework. The risk management framework is reviewed periodically by the Board and the Audit Committee. Information on the development and implementation of a risk management framework for the company is given under Management Discussion and Analysis.

12. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Detailed information on CSR Policy developed and implemented by the Company. CSR initiatives taken during the year pursuant to section 134 & 135 of the Companies Act 2013 is given in the "Annexure A".

13. Directors' Responsibility Statement

As required under section 134(3)(c) of the Companies Act, 2013 Directors, to the best of their knowledge and belief, state that -

a) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to material departures.

b) 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 the financial year and of the profit and loss of the company for that period.

c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 for safeguarding the assets of the company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities.

d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.

e) the Directors had laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the company and that such internal financial controls are adequate and were operating effectively and

f) the Directors had devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.

14. Vigil Mechanism

The details of the Vigil Mechanism Policy covered under the Companies Act, 2013 and SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015 are explained in the Corporate Governance Report and posted on the website of the Company.

15. Directors' Remuneration Policy and Criteria for matters under section 178

Information regarding Directors' Remuneration Policy & criteria for determining qualifications, positive attributes, independence of a director and other matters provided under sub-section (3) of Section 178 are provided in the annexed Corporate Governance Report.

16. Corporate Governance

Detailed reports on matters relating to Corporate Governance and Management Discussion and Analysis Report under SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015, are annexed as part of this Annual report together with the report of Practicing Company Secretary on its compliance thereon.

17. Business Responsibility Report

The Company has included second BRR, as part of the Annual Report, describing initiatives taken from an environmental, social and governance perspective.

18. Particulars of Employees

The information required pursuant to Section 197 read with Rule 5 of The Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 in respect of employees of the Company, will be provided upon request. No one employee who was employed throughout the year and were in receipt of remuneration more than Rs. 102 lakh per annum in current financial year. The details of remuneration of Directors and Key Managerial Personnel are given in note No. 45 to the Financial Statements.

In terms of Section 136 of the Act, the Report and Accounts are being sent to the Members and others entitled thereto, excluding the information on employees' particulars which is available for inspection by the Members at the Registered Office of the Company during business hours on working days of the Company up to the date of the ensuing Annual General Meeting.

19. Particulars of Loans, Guarantees or Investments

Details of Loans, Guarantees and Investments, if any covered under the provisions of Section 186 of the Companies Act, 2013 are given in note No. 9,14 and 18 to the Financial Statements.

20. Number of Meetings of the Board and Audit Committee

During the year, five Board Meetings and four Audit Committee Meetings were convened and held. The details of which are given in the Corporate Governance Report.

21. Formal Annual Evaluation of the performance of Board, its Committees and Directors

Pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and SEBI (Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015, the Board has carried out an annual performance evaluation of its own performance, Board as a whole and committees. The manner in which the evaluation has been carried out has been explained in the Corporate Governance Report.

22. Related Party Transactions

All transactions entered with Related Parties for the year under review were on arm's length basis and thus a disclosure in Form AOC-2 in terms of Section 134 of the Act is not required. There were no materially significant related party transactions made by the Company with Promoters, Directors and Key Managerial Personnel which may have a potential conflict with the interest of the Company. All related party transactions are mentioned in the notes to the accounts. All Related Party Transactions are placed before the Audit Committee for approval. Omnibus approval was obtained on a yearly basis for transactions which are of repetitive nature. Transactions entered into pursuant to omnibus approval are verified and a statement giving details of all Related Party Transactions are placed before the Audit Committee and the Board for review and approval on a quarterly basis. The policy on Related Party Transactions as approved by the Board is placed on the Company's website www.indef.com.

23. Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace

The Company has in place an Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy and Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) to redress complaints received regarding sexual harassment in line with the requirements of the Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act, 2013. All employees are covered under this policy. There were no Complaints received during the year.

24. Energy Conservation, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earning and Outgo

The information on conservation of energy, technology absorption, foreign exchange earnings and outgo etc. to the extent applicable stipulated under section 134 (3) (m) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rule no. 8 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is set out in "Annexure A" annexed hereto.

25. Extract of Annual Return

As required under Section 134(3)(a) of the Act and as per Companies (Management and Administration) Amendment Rules 2021, Annual Return in the prescribed Form MGT 7 is put up on the Company's website -www.indef.com.

26. Industrial Relations

The relationship with the employees continued to remain cordial during the year.

Your Directors take this opportunity to thank the Banks, Government authorities, Regulatory authorities, Stock exchanges, Employees and all Stakeholders for their continued co-operation and support to the Company.

On behalf of the Board of DirectorsShekhar Bajaj

Dated : 25/05/2021 Chairman

Place : Mumbai (DIN No. 00089358)