Mar 31, 2014
Dear Members,
For the year ended 31st March, 2014
The directors hereby present their 30th Annual Report together with the
audited statement of accounts for the year ended 31 st March 2014.
1. FINANCIAL RESULTS Rs. In Lacs
2013-14 2012-13
Loss : For the year 6695.40 5368.24
Add : Balance of loss brought from 50203.00 44834.76
last year
T ransfer to Balance Sheet 56898.40 50203.00
2. DIVIDEND :
In view of the loss, your Directors regret their inability to recommend
any dividend for the year under review.
3. OPERATIONS :
There was income of Rs.11,62,049/- from Hire purchase/lease deals as
all such deals have matured.Constant increase in loss was mainly due to
provisioning on account of interest on Banks/FIIs borrowings and fixed
deposit. Although collection resources are drying up still the
company''s collection under the item " other income" amounted to
Rs.135 lacs. Constant efforts are on to collect dues and it is expected
that in the current financial year collection from a few clients will
materialize.
A few meetings with the Consortium of banks for arriving at out of
court settlement took place.It is expected that mutually acceptable
settlement would emerge in the current financial year.Company shall be
moving an application in Hon''ble Calcutta High Court for early
hearing of Scheme of arrangement for reorganization of share capital of
the company and compromise with fixed deposit holders under Sec.391 &
394 of the Companies Act,1956.Meanwhile, company is paying to such
fixed deposit holders who are approaching the company under hardship
condition provided fund flow permits.
The case filed by the Consortium of Banks in DRT Kolkata was being
contested by the Company on the ground of maintainability and Contempt
proceedings against the company and its Directors in the Board in
2005-06 was also opposed and the matter is pending. Another case in
DRT Kolkata had been filed by UCO Bank for the funding of Mehta
Transport deal; AXIS Bank and Indusind Bank, for their respective
Securitised loan, had filed separate suits in DRT Chennai; IFCI not
being part of Consortium of Banks, had filed a separate suit in DRT
Kolkata for their share of loan; IFCW had filed a suit in High Court in
Calcutta for recovery of its loan. All these cases are being contested
by the Company.
Being aggrieved by DRAT Order, Uco Bank with other Consortium of Banks
moved a proceeding under Sarfaesi Act. Company filed a Writ Petition
before Hon''ble High Court at Calcutta and due to some deficiency in
the procedure followed by UCO Bank and others, the said Court had
Ordered that no coercive steps should be taken by Bank. Bank had
appealed against this Order which is pending.
4. INVESTIGATION U/S 235 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956 :
Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) had completed their
investigation in the year 2010 in respect of a few cases and these are
being contested by the Company in court of law and follow up action in
respect of them had been initiated. Supplementary investigation in
respect of a few specific areas are still to be completed.
5. MIS-APPROPRIATION OF COMPANY''S FUND :
On Company''s complaint DCDD Kolkata Police at Lal Bazar Street,
following their investigation, had filed criminal case against 2 ex.
employees in Chief Magistrate''s Court at Bankshall Street in the year
2011.
Company had also filed money suit in Calcutta High Court against 2
ex.employees for the funds misappropriated by them and the case is in
progress. One of the employees who had moved City Civil Court seeking
injunction against the termination of his service is pending for
hearing.
6. SUBSIDIARY COMPANY :
The wholly owned subsidiary, Nicco Insurance Agents and Consultants
Ltd. (NIACL) has incurred a loss of Rs. 0.92 lacs as they could not
generate any business.
7. STATUTORY INFORMATION :
There was no employee during the year ended 31st March, 2014 in respect
of whom the particulars are required to be disclosed with reference to
Section 217(2A) of the Company''s Act 1956.
Since your Company has no manufacturing activities, the disclosure
relating to conservation of energy and technology absorption is not
applicable under the provisions of Companies (Disclosure of particulars
in the Report of Board of Directors) Rule, 1988.
The Company had no Foreign exchange earnings and outgo during the year
under review.
8. DIRECTORS :
Mr. Kartick Kumar Chatterjee retire by rotation in the ensuing
Thirtieth Annual General Meeting and, being eligible, offer himself for
reappointment.
As mentioned in previous report, Company had submitted to Central
Government an application for the reappointment of Mr. L. N. Kaul as
Managing Director and Company Secretary with effect from 15.4.2013 and
all the formalities in this connection were complied. Central
Government, through Ministry of Corporate Affairs had considered
application unfavourably stating that as per Companies Act, 1956, Mr.
L. N. Kaul cannot hold dual position of Managing Director and Company
Secretary.
As per legal opinion received, an application to Central Government was
not necessary for the period 15.4.2013 to 31.3.2014 pursuant to the
Notification dated 14th July, 2011, modifying Schedule XIII of the
Companies Act, 1956.However, Mr. L. N. Kaul cannot hold dual position
of Managing Director and Company Secretary as per Companies Act, 2013.
Hence, to regularize the same Mr. Kaul had resigned from the position
of Company Secretary w.e.f 1.4.2014 and Mr. S. S. Majumdar, a qualified
Company Secretary had been appointed from 1st April, 2014.
Since the objection of Central Government had been taken care of, Board
in its meeting held on 1st April, 2014 had decided that Company make a
fresh application to Central Government for approving the proposed
remuneration of Mr. L. N. Kaul for the period 1.4.2014 to 14.4.2018
which was already approved in the Extra Ordinary General Meeting held
on 26.2.2013.
Independent Director, as per Companies Act, 2013 shall hold office for
a term of 5 consecutive years on the Board of a Company and shall be
reappointed by passing of a Special Resolution by the Shareholders of
the Company. Independent Director shall be eligible to hold office for
two consecutive terms of 5 years and retirement by rotation shall not
be applicable to such Directors.
As per the requirement of Companies Act, 2013, Mrs. Aparna Dey, Woman
Director, was co-opted as Additional Director in the Board Meeting held
on 31.7.2014. She meets the requirements of Independent Director as
stipulated in Companies Act, 2013.
Accordingly, Mr. B. Roy & Mrs. Aparna Dey, being eligible are proposed
to be appointed as independent Directors for a term of 5 consecutive
years on the Board of Directors of the Company.
Auditors in their report dated 30th May, 2014 under Report on other
Legal and Regulatory Requirement, Clause 2(e) have stated that due to
continuing default in repayment of fixed deposit the Directors of the
Company are disqualified as on 31st March, 2014 from being appointed as
Directors in other Public Companies in terms of clause (g) of
subsection (1) of Section 274 of the Companies Act, 1956. Directors are
not in agreement with the contention of the Auditors and their view has
been supplemented by legal opinion received from a legal firm to the
extent that such restriction on the Directors of the Company expired on
31st March, 2013.
9. DIRECTORS'' RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT :
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 217(2AA) of the Act, the
Directors state that:
(a) In the preparation of the Annual Accounts for the year ended March
31, 2014, applicable Accounting Standards have been followed with no
material departure;
(b) Your directors have selected such accounting policies and applied
them consistently and made judgments and estimate that are reasonable
and prudent, so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs
of the Company as on March 31, 2014 and of the loss for the year ended
31st March, 2014.
(c) Your directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding assets of the
company and/or for preventing and detecting frauds and other
irregularities and while discharging their duties they had relied on
the contention of the Management and also on the report of the Internal
Auditors (outside firm), both of which required improvement in several
aspects.
(d) The accounts for the year ended March 31,2014 have been prepared on
a going concern concept based on legal opinion obtained pending final
outcome of the appeal preferred by the Company against cancellation of
Certificate of Registration by RBI.
10. MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE :
In accordance with the requirement of the listing Agreements with the
Stock Exchange, a report on the Management Discussion and Analysis is
attached hereto (Annexure ''A''). A Report on the status of
Compliance of Corporate Governance norms along with the certificate of
the Auditors is also attached (Annexure ''B'').
11. AUDITORS & AUDITORS'' REPORT :
The name of M/s.G. Basu & Company, Chartered Accountants has been
proposed for reappointment as Auditors of the Company to hold office of
the Auditors from the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
In regard to qualifications made by the Auditors in Auditors'' Report,
Annexure to the Auditors'' Report and Certificate issued on compliance
of conditions of Corporate Governance, all dated 30th May, 2014, the
comments of the Board of Directors are as under against respective
clauses of the said report.
12. AUDITORS'' REPORT :
In regard to qualifications made by the Auditors in Auditors'' Report,
Annexure to the Auditors'' Report and Certificate issued on compliance
of conditions of Corporate Governance, all of them dated 30th May,
2014, the comments of the Board of Directors are as under against
respective clauses of the said report :
Comments & Clarifications to Auditors'' qualifications in their
Reports Basis for qualified Opinion
Clause (a) - Please refer to Note No.2.21of Notes to Financial
statement in this regard. Necessary action if any will be taken on
disposal of the appeal.
Clause (b) - Please refer to Note No.2.3(ix) of Notes to Financial
Statement in this regard. Huge loss suffered by the Company since F.Y -
2003-04 to date along with embargo on the Company by RBI for doing fund
based business have adversely impacted the Cash flow position of the
Company.Shortfall in repayment of fixed deposit as per modified CLB
Order arose due to paucity of fund.
Clause (c ) Please refer to Note No. 2.3(x) of Notes to Financial
Statement in this connection.
Emphasis of matter
(i) Please refer to note no.2.3 and 2.5 of Notes to Financial Statement
in this regard.Necessary action, if any, will be taken on disposal of
the case.
(ii) Please refer to note no.2.11 (d) of Notes to Financial Statement
in this regard.The investigation conducted by SFIO has been partially
completed and follow up action in respect of them has been initiated.
(iii) Please refer to Note No.2.36 of Notes to Financial Statement
which is self explanatory.
Report on other Legal and Regulatory Requirements -
Clause 2(e) - For disqualification of Directors u/s 274 (1)(g) of the
Companies Act,1956, please refer to clause 8, para - 7 of Directors
Report.
ANNEXURE TO AUDITORS'' REPORT :
Clause :
1.(a). The updation of Fixed Asset register destroyed in a fire in the
office premises is under process.
2(a)(b)(c). Since there is no live agreement for Lease and Hire
Purchase deals and the outstanding against the earlier deals have been
provided for, the scope for physical verification of inventory
doesn''t exist and accordingly the same has not been verified.
(4). Appropriate steps have been initiated by devising a multi layer
checking system to remove the weaknesses noticed in the internal
control system which is under constant review for scope of up
gradation, if any.
Clause.6: The net worth of the company has completely been eroded due
to huge loss suffered by the company. Thus, present
outstanding fixed deposit liability of the company has exceeded the
prescribed limit though the deposits were accepted as per RBI norms and
guidelines.
(a). Please refer to Note No.2.3 (x) & (xi) of Notes to Financial
Statement in this regard. Huge loss suffered by the company since the
F.Y 2003 - 2004 to date along with embargo on the company by RBI from
doing fund based business have adversely impacted the cash flow
position of the company. Shortfall in payment of fixed deposit as per
modified CLB order arose due to paucity of fund.
Clause 9: (a) Due to closure of business resulting into exodus of
executives and cancellation of certificate by RBI, the company is
unable to identify the liability.
Clause 9: (b) Please refer to Note nos.2.7 and 2.23 (a) & (b) of Notes
to Financial Statement.As the disputes have not yet been settled, the
Company is not in a position to comment further.
Clause 11: Consequent upon cancellation of certificate of registration
by RBI, projections made in the scheme filed u/s 391(1) and 391(6) of
the Companies Act, 1956 for revival of the company was jeopardized. UCO
Bank and other secured lenders have then initiated various legal
actions against the company as detailed in Note No.2.3 iv(a) to (f).
The company was then compelled to withdraw the said scheme filed u/s
391(1) and 391 (6) of the Companies Act, 1956. As the matter is
sub-judice, necessary action, if any, will be taken on disposal of the
pending cases.
Clause 14: Please refer note 2.9(a) to 2.9(d) of Notes to Financial
Statement in this regard which are self explanatory.
In regard to qualifications made under certificate issued on Corporate
Governance, we state:
(a) To cut cost, company is not having its own Website but sending
financial data regularly to Stock Exchange in their required format for
publishing at their website.
(b) In view of present financial condition of the company, effort is
made to cut /reduce cost and accordingly Membership of CDSL was given
up in the financial year 2005-06 as maximum activity of company''s
shares are confined to NSDL.Shareholders were also informed to comply
with this request through Annual Reports and Accounts.CDSL had stopped
sending their data since financial year 2010-11.
13. APPRECIATION :
Your Directors wish to thank the company''s stakeholders and fixed
deposit holders for their support.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
31st July, 2014
DEBDATTA SAILA
Kolkata Chairman
Mar 31, 2010
The directors hereby present their 26th Annual Report together with the
audited statement of accounts for the year ended 31st March 2010.
1. FINANCIAL RESULTS Rs. In Lacs
2009-10 2008-09
Loss before Tax 3519.24 4071.48
Less : Provision for Taxation/Fringe
benefit Tax 0.43 1.10
3519.67 4072.58
Add : Balance of Loss brought forward
from last year 33293.57 29220.99
Transfer to Balance Sheet 36813.24 33293.57
2. DIVIDEND:
In view of the loss, your Directors regret their inability to recommend
any dividend for the year under review.
3. OPERATIONS:
Income from operation dropped in the current year from the year 2008-09
because mostly all deals have matured. The reason for constant increase
in loss is mainly due to provision for interest on bank/FII borrowings
and fixed deposit, provisioning of NPA as per RBI guidelines and
diminution in value of investment.
Company made a relentless efforts for collection this year from written
off/provided/ NPA parties because the company was experiencing that
resorting to legal recourse was not yielding desired result and was
also impacting adversely companys cash flow. But this years
collection drive was not satisfactory. A few, defaulting clients have
been reidentified and if in the next financial year the company is
successful in this objective, an impressive amount is expected to be
collected.
Discussion for out of court settlement with UCO Bank , leader of
Consortium of Banks did not make any satisfactory progress.
Scheme of Arrangement for Re-organisation of Share Capital of Nicco Uco
Alliance Credit Limited and Compromise with Fixed Deposit Holders under
Sec.391 & 394 of the Companies Act, 1956 is on the verge of final
stage: the Judge of the Honble High Court, Calcutta has reserved her
verdict. However, Company is paying to such depositors who were aged
and/or required funds for medical exigency. The case filed by the
Consortium of Banks in DRT Kolkata was being contested by the Company
on the ground of maintainability and Contempt proceedings against the
company and its Directors in the Board in 2005-06 was also opposed and
the matter is pending. Another case in DRT Court had been filed by UCO
Bank for the funding of Mehta Transport deal which was inadvertently
not included when the above case was filed by the Banks with other
consortium members. IFCI not being part of Consortium of Banks, had
filed a separate case in DRT Kolkata for their share of loan. Indusind
Bank had filed a suit in DRT Court in Chennai on account of securitised
loan. Axis Bank Chennai has filed a suit in Chennai on account of
securitization loan. IFCW has filed a suit in Kolkata for recovery of
the loan amount. All these cases are being contested by the Company.
In the Sarfaeci proceedings initiated by UCO Bank and other against the
company, being aggrieved by DRATs Order, company filed a Writ Petition
before Honble High Court, Calcutta and due to some deficiency in the
procedure followed by UCO Bank and Ors., the said Court Ordered that no
coercive steps should be taken by Bank. Bank had appealed against this
Order.
4. FIRE AT NICCO HOUSE:
As reported earlier, due to fire on 27th March 09, Company has
incurred substantial loss and an on account payment of Rs. 10 lacs has
been received from Insurance Company and accordingly various repair and
rehabilitation works were undertaken and they are at the stage of
completion when the documents would be lodged with Insurance company
for final settlement.
Various modern fire prevention instruments are being installed
including erection of two way staircase for which Company is also
contributing proportionately. Electric connection had been restored in
Nicco House with effect from August, 2009 which brought normalcy in
working condition.
5. INVESTIGATION U/S 235 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956:
At the report of Registrar of Companies, West Bengal, Investigation had
been initiated by Serious fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) w.e.f 26th
June 08 and it is on the verge of completion and SFIO shall submit its
report to Central Govt., Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi and a
copy shall be forwarded to the Company as per the procedure laid down
in the Companies Act, 1956.
6. MIS-APPROPRIATION OF COMPANYS FUND:
Two employees were identified to be the culprit for misappropriation of
Companys fund amounting to Rs. 140.32 lacs and Rs. 0.30 lacs in the
financial year 2008-09 and 2009-10 respectively. They were arrested and
kept in police/jail custody. As given to understand, DCDD, Lai Bazar,
Kolkata had located various investments made out of that fund which had
been attached. Company is making all endeavours for the recovery of
misappropriated fund. Investigation is still in progress.
Domestic Enquiry against the two employees have been completed in April
10. One of the employee have moved City Civil Court for Injunction
which has been opposed by the company.
7. SUBSIDIARY COMPANY:
The wholly owned subsidiary, Nicco Insurance Agents and Consultants
Ltd. (NIACL) has incurred a loss of Rs. 0.29 lacs as they could not
generate any business.
8. STATUTORY INFORMATION:
The company has generally observed all prudential norms prescribed by
RBI excepting maintenance of SLR though the certificate of Registration
has been cancelled by RBI.
There were no employees during the year ended 31st March 10 in respect
of whom the particulars are required to be disclosed with reference to
Section 217(2A) of the Companys Act 1956.
Since your Company has no manufacturing activities, the disclosure
relating to conservation of energy, technology absorption is not
applicable under the provisions of companies (Disclosure of particulars
in the Report of Board of Directors) Rule 1988.
The Company had no Foreign exchange earnings and outgo during the year
under review.
9. DIRECTORS:
Justice N. K. Bhattacharyya (Retd.) and Mr. L. N. Kaul retire by
rotation in the ensuing twenty sixth Annual General Meeting and being
eligible offer themselves for reappointment.
Company has received a letter dt. 21st May 10 from Ministry of
Corporate Affairs (MCA) approving the remuneration of Mr. L. N. Kaul
Managing Director for the period 15th April 08 to 14th April 10 with
marginal reduction in remuneration. While granting approval MCA did not
give its sanction in respect of Rs. 2.72 lacs paid earlier for the
financial year 2007-08. Company is writing to MCA to kindly review its
decision for the aforesaid two periods. Due to indifferent health
Justice N. K. Bhattacharyya (Retd.) Chairman, has opted not to have
Chairmans office at his residence and therefore, with effect from 1st
March 10 Chairmans office had been discontinued. Till full recovery
of health of Mr. Bhattacharyya, Mr. Debdatta Saila was appointed as
Chairman in the Board Meeting held on 31st May, 2010.
10. DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT:
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 217(2AA) of the Act, the
Directors state that :
(a) in the preparation of the Annual Accounts for the year ended March
31, 2010, applicable Accounting Standards have been followed with no
material departure;
(b) your directors have selected such accounting policies and applied
them consistently and made judgments and estimate that are reasonable
and prudent, so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs
of the Company as on March 31, 2010;
(c) Your directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provision of Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding assets of the company
for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities and while
discharging their duties they had relied on the contention of the
Management and also on the report of the Internal Auditors (outside
firm) both of which required improvement in several aspects.
(d) The accounts for the year ended March 31,2010 have been prepared on
a going concern concept based on legal opinion obtained preceding final
outcome of the appeal preferred by the Company against cancellation of
Certificate of Registration by RBI.
11. MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:
In accordance with the requirement of the listing Agreements with the
Stock Exchange, a report on the Management Discussion and Analysis is
attached hereto (Annexure A). A Report on the status of Compliance of
Corporate Governance norms along with the certificate of the Auditors
is also attached (Annexure B).
12. AUDITORS & AUDITORS REPORT:
M/s.Singhi & Co., Chartered Accountants, retire and being eligible
offer themselves for reappointment. The auditor have confirmed that the
reappointment, if made, will be within the limit prescribed under
Section 224 (1B) of the Companies Act, 1956.
In regard to qualification made by Auditors in Auditors Report,
Annexure to the Auditors Report and Certificate issued on compliance
of conditions of Corporate Governance , all of them dated 31st
May,2010, the comments of the Board of Directors are as under against
respective clauses of the said report :
AUDITORS REPORT:
CI.5 Directors are of the view that although none of the Directors on
the Board are Director/s in any other company, the provision of
274(i)(g) is not applicable because 5 years have already elapsed when
the company defaulted first in the year 2004-05 in paying interest
/principal amount to fixed deposit holders.
CI.6 (a)(i) Please refer to Note No. 10 in Schedule 15B in this regard.
Necessary action, if any, will be taken on disposal of the appeal.
(a)(ii) Please refer to Note No. 11 (a) in Schedule 15B in this regard.
Necessary action, if any, will be taken on disposal of the case.
(a)(iii) Please refer to Note No. 11 (g) in Schedule 15B in this
regard. Necessary action, if any, will be taken on disposal of the
case.
(b) Please refer to. Note No. 14 in Schedule 15B in this regard. Huge
loss suffered by the company since the F.Y 2003 - 2004 to date along
with embargo on the company by RBI from doing fund based business have
adversely impacted the cash flow position of the company. Shortfall in
payment of fixed deposit as per modified CLB order arose due to paucity
of fund.
(c) Please refer to Note No. 3(b) in Schedule 15B in this regard. The
matter is pending before the Central Government and necessary action,
if any, will be taken after the final decision.
(d) Please refer to Note No. 12 in Schedule 15B in this regard.
Positive balances lying in the current accounts with the member of the
consortium bank and other secured lenders are Non-encumbered in nature
and the company has not relinquished its right over such asset. Hence,
provisioning on unconfirmed current account balance was not felt
necessary.
(e) Please refer to Note No. 19 in Schedule 15B in this regard. Repairs
and renovation work is on the verge of completion and relevant
documents will be lodged with the insurance company for final
settlement. Settlement effect will be given thereafter.
(f) Please refer to Note No. 21 in Schedule 15B in this regard. The
investigation conducted by SFIO is on the verge of completion.
(g) Necessary steps being taken to make payment to depositors / deposit
with "Investors Education and Protection Fund".
ANNEXURE TO AUDITORS REPORT: Annexure 1
(a) Recreation of fixed asset register of Eastern Divisional Office
(EDO) is under process from available old documents.
(b) The major value of fixed assets consisted of land, building and
windmill which were visited by Directors / senior officials of the
company during usual course of business. No major discrepancies were
noticed during the year.
2(a) & (b) Since there is no live Lease and Hire Purchase deals and the
outstanding against earlier deals have been provided for, the scope for
physical verification of inventory doesnt exist and accordingly the
same has not been verified.
CI. 4(i) Please refer Note No. 14 in Schedule 15B in this regard.
Interest was provided at contracted rate and as per CLB order on
outstanding fixed deposit liability. Steps are being taken for the said
reconciliation.
(ii) Appropriate steps have been initiated by devising a multi layer
checking system to remove the weaknesses noticed in the internal
control system which is under constant review for scope of up
gradation, if any.
CI.6 Net worth of the company has completely been eroded due to huge
loss suffered by the company. Thus, present outstanding fixed deposit
liability of the company has exceeded the prescribed ceiling.
(a) The order has been duly complied with by the company.
(b) Please refer to Note No. 10 in Schedule 15B in this regard.
Necessary action, if any, will be taken on disposal of the appeal.
(c) Please refer to Note No. 14 in Schedule 15B in this regard. Huge
loss suffered by the company since the F.Y 2003 - 2004 to date along
with embargo on the company by RBI from doing fund based business have
adversely impacted the cash flow position of the company. Shortfall in
payment of fixed deposit as per modified CLB order arose due to paucity
of fund.
(d) Due to paucity of fund as explained above, the company couldnt
comply with the prescribed liquidity requirement during the year.
CI.9 (a) Due to mounting loss, closure of business / cancellation of
certificate by RBI, exodus of executives, the company is unable to
identify the liability. Efforts are being taken for verification of
such liability. However, necessary steps being taken to make payment to
depositors / deposit with " Investors Education and Protection Fund"
for dues more than seven years.
CI.10 Net worth of the company has completely been eroded due to huge
loss suffered and large provisioning made by the company.
CI.11 Consequent upon cancellation of certificate of registration by
RBI, projections made in the scheme filed u/s 391 (1) and 391 (6) of
the Companies Act, 1956 for revival of the company was jeopardized.
UCO Bank and other secured lenders have then initiated various legal
actions against the company as detailed in Note No. 11 (a) to 11 (g) in
Schedule 15B. The company was then compelled to withdraw the said
scheme filed u/s 391(1) and 391(6) of the Companies Act, 1956. As the
matter is sub- judice, necessary action, if any, will be taken on
disposal of the pending cases.
CI.14 Most of the companies are making huge losses / have gone into
liquidation and therefore despite writing to them for transfer of
shares in the name of the company, no response has been received.
CI.21 Please refer to Note No. 20 in Schedule 15B in this regard. Final
impact of the fraud perpetrated on the company could be identified on
completion of the investigation.
In regard to qualification under clause (b) of certificate on Corporate
Governance , we state that there is an embargo on the company from
doing fund based business due to cancellation of Registration by RBI
(appeal preferred by Company is pending).Hence, question of risk
assessment and minimization procedure does not arise.
13. APPRECIATION :
Your Directors wish to thank the companys stakeholders and fixed
deposit holders for their support.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
31st May, 2010 .
DEBADATTA SAILA
Kolkata Chairman