Mar 31, 2023
The Directors have pleasure in presenting to you the Thirty Seventh (37th) Annual Report of Trigyn Technologies Limited (the âCompanyâ or âTTLâ) along with the audited financial statements for the financial year ended March 31,2023. The consolidated performance of the Company and its subsidiaries has been referred to wherever required.
1. SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Results for the period ended March 31, 2023 are given below:
(Rs. in Lakhs) |
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Particular |
STANDALONE |
CONSOLIDATED |
||||
Year ended March-23 |
Year ended March-22 |
Year ended March-23 |
Year ended March-22 |
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Total income |
17,251.95 |
9,425.59 |
127,272.44 |
104,058.35 |
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Operating expenses |
17,223.64 |
9,576.99 |
119,807.31 |
96,797.57 |
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Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) |
28.31 |
(151.41) |
7,465.13 |
7,260.78 |
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Other Income |
2,625.42 |
1,808.83 |
649.05 |
297.79 |
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Interest and finance charges |
159.92 |
207.54 |
224.22 |
276.62 |
||
Depreciation |
406.63 |
361.28 |
680.19 |
670.08 |
||
ECL & Provisions for doubtful advances |
1,386.26 |
729.01 |
1,386.26 |
729.01 |
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Profit before Exceptional and Extraordinary item and before taxes |
700.93 |
359.58 |
5,823.50 |
5,882.86 |
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Exceptional Items |
5.55 |
4.30 |
- |
- |
||
Profit/(loss)before exceptional items and tax |
695.38 |
355.29 |
5,823.50 |
5,882.86 |
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Taxation |
265.21 |
253.69 |
2,355.78 |
1,975.66 |
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Net profit / (loss) after tax for the period |
430.17 |
101.59 |
3,467.72 |
3,907.20 |
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Other comprehensive income |
(82.37) |
(49.77) |
3,871.45 |
1,037.31 |
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Total comprehensive income |
347.81 |
51.83 |
7,339.18 |
4,944.52 |
During the year under review on a standalone basis your company achieved Total Revenue of '' 17,251.95 lakhs as compared to '' 9,425.59 lakhs in the previous year. The net profit on standalone basis stood at '' 430.17 lakhs as compared to '' 101.59 lakhs in the previous year.
During the year under review on a consolidated basis your company achieved Total Revenue of '' 1,27,272.44 lakhs as compared to '' 104,058.35 lakhs in the previous year. The net profit on consolidated basis stood at '' 3,467.72 lakhs as compared to '' 3,907.20 lakhs in the previous year.
For the year ended March 31, 2023 on standalone basis EPS stood at '' 1.40/- and on Consolidated basis EPS stood at '' 11.26/-.
The paid-up Equity Share Capital of the Company as on March 31, 2023 is '' 307,857,360 divided into 30,785,736 equity shares of '' 10/- each. The paid-up share capital of the Company held by the Promoters is 44.51% as on March 31, 2023, all in dematerialized form.
The Company has not issued any equity shares with differential rights, sweat equity shares or bonus shares. The Company has only one class of equity shares with face value of '' 10/- each, ranking pari -passu.
I n view to conserve cash/resources for the growth/future expansion, your directors have not recommended any dividend for the year under review.
The Company has not accepted any deposits from the public and as such, no amount on account of principal or interest on deposits from public was outstanding as on the date of the balance sheet.
The Board of Directors has decided to transfer NIL amount to General Reserve in the financial year 2022-2023.
7. TRANSFER TO INVESTOR EDUCATION AND PROTECTION FUND
During the year under review, the Company was not required to transfer unpaid/unclaimed dividend, shares to the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Authority of the Central Government of India.
8. MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS AFFECTING FINANCIAL POSITION BETWEEN THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR AND DATE OF REPORT
There have been no material changes and commitments affecting financial position between the end of the financial year and date of report.
Human Resource has always been the prime focus at Trigyn. The organization strongly believes that human resources are the key factor to achieve success in the business. At Trigyn we recruit, train and recompense people according to a strategy that aims to organize our businesses effectively; accelerate development of our people; grow and strengthen our leadership capabilities; and enhance employee performance through strong engagement.
Regular feedback is obtained from every participant to determine whether the training is effective, or any further training is needed.
To cater to the efficiency of the employees, Trigyn aids them in Certification. Trigyn also provides online courses to the employees so that they can perform more efficiently.
Trigyn deploys its intellectual capability across the globe to create and deliver IT solutions that make a positive business impact for its customers. The key resource to make this happen is the talent within the organization. At Trigyn, we believe in nurturing our employees and hence undertake HR programs that focus on all aspects of the lifecycle of an employee which helps us attract and retain our best talent. The company continues to grow its global scale and footprint with a diverse talent base of employees, deployed across the globe. Efficient systems, processes and continuous investments in technology help the company manage this complexity of a large, distributed and diverse workforce.
10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE
To foster a positive workplace environment, free from harassment of any nature, we have institutionalized the Sexual Harassment Committee, through which we address complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace. The Company has zero tolerance for sexual harassment at workplace and thus has adopted a policy on prevention prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment at workplace in line with the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the rules thereunder for prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment at workplace.
During the financial year 2022-2023, the Company has received no complaints on sexual harassment.
The disclosure pertaining to remuneration and other details are required to be furnished pursuant to Section 197(12) read with rule 5(1) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 are as given below:
a. |
The ratio of the remuneration of each Director to the median remuneration of the employees of the Company or the financial year: |
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Directors |
Ratio to Median Remuneration |
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Mr. CH V.V. Prasad |
0.17 |
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Mr. Vivek Khare |
0.27 |
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Dr. B.R. Patil |
0.27 |
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Mr. A. R. Ansari |
0.28 |
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Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
- |
||
Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi |
0.17 |
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Ms. Bhavana Rao |
- |
||
Ms. Lakshmi Potluri |
0.08 |
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R. Ganapathi |
0.15 |
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Mr. Dilip Hanumara* |
- |
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*Mr. Dilip Hanumara was an Executive Director upto 30th November 2022. |
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b. |
The percentage increase in remuneration of each Director, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary in the financial year: |
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Directors, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary |
% increase in remuneration in the financial year |
||
Mr. CH V.V. Prasad |
11.11 |
||
Mr. Vivek Khare |
6.67 |
||
Dr. B.R. Patil |
77.78 |
||
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
13.33 |
||
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
- |
||
Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi |
11.11 |
||
Ms. Bhavana Rao |
- |
||
Ms. Lakshmi Potluri |
- |
||
Mr. R. Ganapathi |
12.50 |
||
Mr. Dilip Hanumara* |
- |
||
Mr. Amin Bhojani |
- |
||
Mr. Mukesh Tank |
- |
*Mr. Dilip Hanumara was an Executive Director upto 30th November 2022.
c. Percentage increase in the median remuneration of employees in the financial year ended March 31, 2023:
There was an increase in the median by 19.90%. This has been arrived by comparing the median remuneration of the cost-to-the Company as on March 31,2023 as compared to previous year as on March 31, 2022.
d. The number of permanent employees on the rolls of Company: 851 as on March 31, 2023.
e. Average percentile increase already made in the salaries of employees other than the managerial personnel in the last financial year and its comparison with the percentile increase in the managerial remuneration and justification thereof and point out if there are any exceptional circumstances for increase in the managerial remuneration:
There was an increase of 12.47% in remuneration of employees other than managerial personnel against 13.97% increase in remuneration of managerial personnel. There has been no exceptional remuneration increase for managerial personnel.
f. Affirmation that the remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of the Company:
The Company affirms remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of the Company.
g. The statement containing particulars of top ten employees and the employees drawing remuneration in excess of limits prescribed under Section 197(12) of the Act read with Rule 5(2) and (3) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 is provided in a separate annexure forming part of this report and is available on the website of the Company at under Investor section, Financial Reports. In terms of the proviso to section 136 (1) of the Act, the reports and accounts are being sent to the shareholders excluding the aforesaid Annexure. Shareholders interested in obtaining this information may access the same from the Company website or send a written request to the Company.
I n accordance with Section 136 of the Companies Act, 2013, the annexure is open for inspection at the Registered Office of the Company during business hours on all working days, 21 days before the Annual General Meeting and copies may be made available in request.
h. Further In terms of rule 5 (2) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 -
1. No employees were employed throughout the financial year, were in receipt of remuneration for that year which, in the aggregate, was more than One Crore and Two lakh rupees per annum.
2. No employees were employed for a part of the financial year, was in receipt of remuneration for any part
of that year, at a rate which, in the aggregate, was more than Eight Lakh and Fifty Thousand Rupees per
month.
3. No employees were employed throughout the financial year or part thereof, who were in receipt of
remuneration in that year which, in the aggregate, or as the case may be, at a rate which, in the aggregate,
is in excess of that drawn by the Managing Director or Whole-Time Director and holds by himself or along with his spouse and dependent children, not less than two percent of the equity shares of the Company.
12. CERTIFICATIONS ON ISO STANDARDS AND QUALITY FRAMEWORKS
Your Company continues journey of delivering value to clients through its rigorous discipline in adhering to ISO Standards and Quality Frameworks. Sustained commitment to highest levels of quality and robust information security practices helped the Company attain significant milestones during the year.
Your Company has adopted and achieved the following international standards and process improvement framework for process definition and improvement:
⢠ISO 9001-2015
⢠ISO 27001:2013
⢠ISO 20000:2018
⢠ISO 14001:2015
⢠CMMI - DEV Version 2.0 - ML 5*
Your Company has a strong mechanism for taking feedback from the Customers through satisfaction surveys. The feedback is analyzed across multiple dimensions to drive improvement in Customer experience.
^Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 5.
13. STATE OF COMPANY''S AFFAIRS Strategy
Our strategic objective is to build a sustainable organization that remains relevant to the agenda of our clients, while generating profitable growth for our investors. During the year, we continued to work on our vision and strengthened focus on our core competence area of IT services. We also introduced a number of strategies for the overall growth and productivity of the Company. The following are some of the broad areas covered by these initiatives:
A series of measures have been initiated to yield high level of cost optimization. This includes increasing offshore effort ratio, deploying people in right jobs and eliminating unnecessary costs.
Enhancing sales productivity
There is a considerable focus on the sales team for the purpose of acquiring large and profitable project. A new sales team is in place to bring more revenue yielding opportunities.
Delivery
The Delivery team has been strengthened further and it has started showing immediate results in the form of positive feedback from customers. Our strategy is to leverage software-based automation to deliver solutions and services to our clients in the most cost-effective manner, while at the same time optimizing our cost structure to remain competitive.
The Company has 8 subsidiaries as on March 31, 2023 There are no associate companies within the meaning of Section 2(6) of the Companies Act, 2013 (âActâ). There has been no material change in the nature of the business of the subsidiaries.
Pursuant to provisions of Section 129(3) of the Act read with rule 5 of Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, as amended from time to time, a statement containing salient features of the financial statements of the Companyâs subsidiaries in Form AOC-1 is attached to the financial statements of the Company.
Pursuant to the provisions of section 136 of the Act, the financial statements of the Company, consolidated financial statements along with relevant documents and separate audited accounts in respect of subsidiaries, are available on the website of the Company at https://www.trigyn.com/investor-relations .
15. DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to Section 134 (5) of the Companies Act, 2013, the Board of Directors, to the best of their knowledge and ability, confirm that:
a. i n the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting standards have been followed and there are no material departures;
b. they have 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 of the Company for that period;
c. they have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;
d. they have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis;
e. they have laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and such internal financial controls are adequate and operating effectively; and
f. they have devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.
Based on the framework of internal financial controls and compliance systems established and maintained by the Company, work performed by the internal, statutory and secretarial auditors and external consultants, including audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting by the statutory auditors and the reviews performed by management and the relevant board committees, including the audit committee, the board is of the opinion that the Companyâs internal financial controls were adequate and effective during the financial year 2022-2023.
16. DIRECTORS AND KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL
i n accordance with the provisions of Section 152 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Articles of Association of the Company, Dr. P. Raja Mohan Rao, (DIN: 00157346), Non-Executive Director, shall retire by rotation at ensuing 37th Annual General Meeting of the Company and being eligible, has offered himself for re-appointment.
Also, the tenure of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Dilip Hanumara, is upto November 30, 2023.
Appointments and cessations of Directors & Key Managerial Personnel are as under:
Appointments:
There were no new Appointments of Directors & Key Managerial Personnel during the year.
Mr. Dilip Hanumara, (DIN: 08620342) Executive Directorship ceased with effect from the closing of business hours of November 30, 2022.
Your Company had appointed following Non-Executive (Independent) Directors pursuant to Regulation 17 of the Listing Regulations and they are not liable to retire by rotation as per Companies Act, 2013 (the Act);
1. Mr. Atiqur Rahman Ansari (DIN 00200187)
2. Mr. Venkata Cherukuri Varaprasad (DIN 00556469)
3. Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi (DIN 02388109)
4. Mr. Vivek Virendra Khare (DIN 02877606)
5. Dr. Bhiva Rao Rajdhar Patil (DIN 03279483)
6. Ms. Lakshmi Potluri (DIN: 07382768)
The Company has received declarations from all the Independent Directors of the Company confirming that they meet with the criteria of independence as prescribed under sub-section (7) of Section 149 of the Act and Regulation 16 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. In terms of regulation 34(3) read with schedule V of listing regulations, Company has obtained a certificate from VKM & Associates, practicing Company Secretaries confirming that none of the Directors on the Board have been debarred or disqualified from being appointed or continuing as Director of company either by SEBI or MCA or any other statutory authorities. The said certificate is annex with Annual Report (Annexure IV).
During the year, the Non-Executive Directors of the Company had following pecuniary relationship or transactions with the Company.
('' In Lakhs) |
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Names |
Sitting fees (?) |
Reimbursement of expenses incurred for attending the Meetings of the Company (?) |
Any other transaction** ('') |
|
Mr. Ch. V.V. Prasad |
2.00 |
- |
0.02 |
|
Mr. Vivek Khare |
3.20 |
- |
0.18 |
|
Dr. B. R. Patil |
3.20 |
- |
- |
|
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
3.40 |
- |
- |
|
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
- |
- |
20.18 |
|
Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi |
2.00 |
- |
8.37 |
|
Ms. Bhavana Rao |
- |
- |
8.37 |
|
Mr. R. Ganapathi |
1.80 |
- |
136.46* |
|
Ms. Lakshmi Potluri |
1.00 |
- |
- |
|
Mr. Dilip Hanumara# |
- |
- |
10.19 |
Sitting fees is '' 20,000 per meeting for Board and committee meetings.
* Includes Consultancy Fees (in Professional Capacity) '' 40.00 Lakhs & Reimbursement expenses '' 96.46 Lakhs ** Includes actual Reimbursement other than attending the meetings of the Company
# *Mr. Dilip Hanumara was an Executive Director upto 30th November 2022.
Mar 31, 2018
To the Members,
The Directors have pleasure in presenting to you the Thirty Second Annual Report of Trigyn Technologies Limited (the âCompanyâ or âTTLâ) along with the audited financial statements for the financial year ended March 31, 2018. The consolidated performance of the Company and its subsidiaries has been referred to wherever required.
1. SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Results for the period ended March 31, 2018 are given below:
(Rs. In lakhs)
Particular |
STANDALONE |
CONSOLIDATED |
||
Year ended March-18 |
Year ended March-17 |
Year ended March-18 |
Year ended March-17 |
|
Total income |
6,182.68 |
5,582.86 |
68,451.34 |
67,915.29 |
Operating expenses |
6,010.15 |
5,404.06 |
62,329.58 |
61,186.17 |
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) |
172.52 |
178.80 |
6,121.76 |
6,729.12 |
Other Income |
54.20 |
99.02 |
51.42 |
58.65 |
Interest and finance charges |
36.46 |
28.90 |
79.70 |
91.95 |
Depreciation |
105.89 |
61.06 |
108.22 |
68.26 |
Profit before Exceptional and Extraordinary item and before taxes |
84.38 |
187.86 |
5,985.26 |
6,627.56 |
Exceptional Items |
- |
52.96 |
- |
0.01 |
Profit/(loss) before tax |
84.38 |
134.91 |
5,985.26 |
6,627.56 |
Taxation |
37.91 |
51.79 |
2,038.30 |
2,723.93 |
Net profit / (loss) after tax for the period |
46.47 |
83.11 |
3,946.97 |
3,903.63 |
Other comprehensive income |
19.27 |
31.95 |
70.16 |
(363.59) |
Total comprehensive income |
65.73 |
115.07 |
4,017.13 |
3,540.03 |
2. COMPANYâS PERFORMANCE
During the year under review on a standalone basis your company achieved Total Revenue of Rs. 6,182.68 lakhs as compared to Rs. 5,582.86 lakhs in the previous year. The net profit on standalone basis stood at Rs. 46.47 lakhs as compared to Rs. 83.11 lakhs in the previous year.
During the year under review on a consolidated basis your company achieved Total Revenue of Rs. 68,451.34 lakhs as compared to Rs. 67,915.29 lakhs in the previous year. The net profit on consolidated basis stood at Rs. 3,946.97 lakhs as compared to Rs. 3,903.63 lakhs in the previous year.
For the year ended March 31, 2018 on standalone basis EPS stood at Rs. 0.16/- and on Consolidated basis EPS stood at Rs. 13.22/-.
3. DIVIDEND
In view to conserve the resources for future expansion your Directors does not recommend any dividend for the year under review.
4. DEPOSIT FROM PUBLIC
The Company has not accepted any deposits from public and as such, no amount on account of principal or interest on deposits from public was outstanding as on the date of the balance sheet. However, during the year 2018-19, Company has received Rs. 1.50 Cr from Ms. Bhavana Rao in May 2018 (Rs. 50 Lakhs each on 3rd, 8th and 14th May) as a short term loan for period of 3 months. The loan was repaid on 9th August 2018.
5. TRANSFER TO RESERVES
The Board of Directors has decided to retain the entire amount of profits in the profit and loss account.
6. CAPITAL REDUCTION
The Company vide board resolution dated 9th July, 2016, had considered and approved the proposal to write off its accumulated losses as on 31st March, 2016 amounting to Rs. 52,825.91 Lakhs against the Securities Premium account balance of Rs. 66102.27 Lakhs as on that date with a view to give true and fair view of books of accounts of the company. Thereafter company made application to National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for their necessary approval and received Order dated 5th October, 2017 approving the proposal. The company has during year ended 31st March, 2018 given effect to above order from NCLT.
7. MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS AFFECTING FINANCIAL POSITION BETWEEN THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR AND DATE OF REPORT
There have been no material changes and commitments affecting financial position between the end of the financial year and date of report.
8. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Human Resource has always been the prime focus at Trigyn. The organization strongly believes that human resource is the key factor to achieve success in the business. At Trigyn we recruit, train and recompense people according to a strategy that aims to organize our businesses effectively; accelerate development of our people; grow and strengthen our leadership capabilities; and enhance employee performance through strong engagement.
Regular feedbacks are obtained from every participant to determine whether the training is effective, or any further training is needed.
In order to cater to the efficiency of the employees, Trigyn aids them in Certification. Trigyn also provides for online courses to the employees so that they can perform more efficiently.
Trigyn deploys its intellectual capability across the globe to create and deliver IT solutions that make a positive business impact for its customer. The key resource to make this happen is the talent within the organization. At Trigyn, we believe in nurturing our employees and hence undertake HR programs that focus on all aspects of the lifecycle of an employee which helps us attract and retain our best talent. The company continues to grow its global scale and footprint with a diverse talent base of employees, deployed across the globe. Efficient systems, processes and continuous investments in technology helps the company manage this complexity of a large, distributed and diverse workforce.
9. SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE
To foster a positive workplace environment, free from harassment of any nature, we have institutionalized the Sexual Harassment Committee, through which we address complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace. The Company has zero tolerance for sexual harassment at workplace and thus has adopted a policy on prevention prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment at workplace in line with the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the rules thereunder for prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment at workplace.
During the financial year 2017-18, the Company has received no complaints on sexual harassment.
10. PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
The disclosure pertaining to remuneration and other details are required to be furnished pursuant to Section 197(12) read with rule 5(1) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 are as given below:
a. The ratio of the remuneration of each Director to the median remuneration of the employees of the Company for the financial year:
Non-Executive Directors |
Ratio to Median Remuneration |
Mr. CH V. V. Prasad |
0.14 |
Mr. Vivek Khare |
0.28 |
Dr. B.R. Patil |
0.28 |
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
0.28 |
Mr. Mohan Narayanan |
0.19 |
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
- |
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Panja |
0.16 |
Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi |
0.16 |
Ms. Bhavana Rao*** |
0.05 |
Executive Directors |
|
R. Ganapathi |
25.71 |
b. The percentage increase in remuneration of each Director, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary in the financial year:
Directors*, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary |
% increase in remuneration in the financial year |
Mr. CH V. V. Prasad |
(45) |
Mr. Vivek Khare |
33 |
Dr. B.R. Patil |
100 |
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
9 |
Mr. Mohan Narayanan |
- |
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
- |
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Panja* |
133 |
Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi** |
133 |
Ms. Bhavana Rao*** |
(98) |
R. Ganapathi |
- |
Mr Amin Bhojani |
5 |
Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar (resigned w.e.f. June 7, 2018) |
3 |
*Mr. Pradeep Kumar Panja appointed as a director on November 1, 2016
** Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi appointed as a director on October 21, 2016
*** Ms. Bhavana Rao was an executive Director till February 6, 2017 and became a non-executive director with effect from February 7, 2017
The above percentage increase in the remuneration is excluding onetime bonus of Rs. 3 Lakhs to Mr. Amin Bhojani and Rs. 2 Lakhs to Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar respectively.
c. The percentage increase in the median remuneration of employees in the financial year: 7.8 %
d. The number of permanent employees on the rolls of Company: 353 as on March 31, 2018
e. Average percentile increase already made in the salaries of employees other than the managerial personnel in the last financial year and its comparison with the percentile increase in the managerial remuneration and justification thereof and point out if there are any exceptional circumstances for increase in the managerial remuneration:
The average annual increase was around 7.8 %. However, during the course of the year, the total increase is approximately 8.01 %, after accounting for promotions and increase in hiring salaries for trainees. Increase in the managerial remuneration including Key Managerial Personnelâs for the year was 5.15%.
f. The key parameters for any variable component of remuneration availed by the Directors: Not applicable as no Variable is paid to Directors.
g. Affirmation that the remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of the Company:
The Company affirms remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of the Company.
h. The statement containing particulars of top ten employees and the employees drawing remuneration in excess of limits prescribed under Section 197(12) of the Act read with Rule 5(2) and (3) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 is provided in a separate annexure forming part of this report. In terms of the proviso to section 136 (1) of the Act, the reports and accounts are being sent to the shareholders excluding the aforesaid Annexure. The annexure is open for inspection at the Registered Office of the Company. Any shareholders interested in obtaining a copy of the same may write to the Company Secretary.
i. Further In terms of rule 5 (2) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 -
1. No employees were employed throughout the financial year, were in receipt of remuneration for that year which, in the aggregate, was not less than One Crore and Two lakh rupees per annum.
2. No employees were employed for a part of the financial year, was in receipt of remuneration for any part of that year, at a rate which, in the aggregate, was not less than Eight Lakh and Fifty Thousand Rupees per month.
3. No employees were employed throughout the financial year or part thereof, who were in receipt of remuneration in that year which, in the aggregate, or as the case may be, at a rate which, in the aggregate, is in excess of that drawn by the Managing Director or Whole-Time Director and holds by himself or along with his spouse and dependent children, not less than two percent of the equity shares of the Company.
11. INITIATIVES ON QUALITY AND INFORMATION SECURITY
Your Company continues journey of delivering value to clients through significant investments in quality and information security programs. Sustained commitment to highest levels of quality and robust information security practices helped the Company attain significant milestones during the year.
Your Company has adopted and achieved the following international standards and process improvement framework for process definition and improvement:
- ISO 9001-2015
- ISO 27001:2013
- Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - DEV Version 1.3 - Level 5
Your Company has a strong mechanism for taking feedback from the Customers through satisfaction surveys. The feedback is analyzed across multiple dimensions to drive improvement in Customer experience.
12. STATE OF COMPANYâS AFFAIRS Strategy
Our strategic objective is to build a sustainable organization that remains relevant to the agenda of our clients, while generating profitable growth for our investors. During the year, we continued to work on our vision and strengthened focus on our core competence area of IT services. We also introduced a number of strategies for the overall growth and productivity of the Company. The following are some of the broad areas covered by these initiatives:
Cost optimization
A series of measures have been initiated to yield high level of cost optimization. This includes increasing offshore effort ratio, deploying people in right jobs and eliminating unnecessary costs.
Enhancing sales productivity
There is a considerable focus on the sales team for the purpose of acquiring large and profitable project. A new sales team is in place to bring more revenue yielding opportunities.
Delivery
The Delivery team has been strengthened further and it has started showing immediate results in the form of positive feedback from customers. Our strategy is to leverage software-based automation to deliver solutions and services to our clients in the most cost-effective manner, while at the same time optimizing our cost structure to remain competitive.
13. SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
The Company has 4 subsidiaries as on March 31, 2018. There are no associate companies within the meaning of Section 2(6) of the Companies Act, 2013 (âActâ). There has been no material change in the nature of the business of the subsidiaries.
Pursuant to provisions of Section 129(3) of the Act read with rule 5 of Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, as amended from time to time, a statement containing salient features of the financial statements of the Companyâs subsidiaries in Form AOC-1 is attached to the financial statements of the Company.
Pursuant to the provisions of section 136 of the Act, the financial statements of the Company, consolidated financial statements along with relevant documents and separate audited accounts in respect of subsidiaries, are available on the website of the Company.
14. DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to Section 134 (5) of the Companies Act, 2013, the Board of Directors, to the best of their knowledge and ability, confirm that:
a. i n the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting standards have been followed and there are no material departures;
b. they have 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 of the Company for that period;
c. they have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;
d. they have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis;
e. they have laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and such internal financial controls are adequate and operating effectively; and
f. they have devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.
Based on the framework of internal financial controls and compliance systems established and maintained by the Company, work performed by the internal, statutory and secretarial auditors and external consultants, including audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting by the statutory auditors and the reviews performed by management and the relevant board committees, including the audit committee, the board is of the opinion that the Companyâs internal financial controls were adequate and effective during the financial year 2017-18.
15. DIRECTORS AND KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL
In accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company, Ms. Bhavana Rao, Non-Executive Director of the Company retire by rotation at the ensuing Annual General Meeting and being eligible offer herself for reappointment.
Your Company had appointed following Non-Executive (Independent) Directors pursuant to Regulation 17 of the Listing Regulations and they are not liable to retire by rotation as per Companies Act, 2013 (the Act);
1. Mr. Atiqur Rahman Ansari (DIN 00200187)
2. Mr. Venkata Cherukuri Varaprasad (DIN 00556469)
3. Mr. Subramaniam Mohan Narayanan (DIN 01510020)
4. Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi (DIN 02388109)
5. Mr. Vivek Virendra Khare (DIN 02877606)
6. Dr. Bhiva Rao Rajdhar Patil (DIN 03279483)
7. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Panja (DIN 03614568)
The Company has received declarations from all the Independent Directors of the Company confirming that they meet with the criteria of independence as prescribed under sub-section (7) of Section 149 of the Act.
During the year, the Non-Executive Directors of the Company had following pecuniary relationship or transactions with the Company.
Names |
Sitting fees (Rs.) |
Reimbursement of expenses incurred for attending the Meetings of the Company (Rs.) |
Any other transaction (Rs.) |
Mr. Ch. V.V. Prasad |
1.20 |
- |
NIL |
Mr. Vivek Khare |
2.40 |
2.13 |
NIL |
Dr. B. R. Patil |
2.40 |
3.30 |
NIL |
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
2.40 |
2.24 |
NIL |
Mr. Mohan Narayanan |
1.60 |
1.41 |
NIL |
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
- |
- |
21.65 |
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Panja |
1.40 |
2.26 |
NIL |
Mr. Kodumudi Sambamurthi Sripathi |
1.40 |
8.49 |
NIL |
Ms. Bhavana Rao |
0.40 |
- |
7.68 |
Sitting fees is Rs. 20,000 per meeting for Board and committee meetings Criteria of making payments to Non-Executive Directors
Sitting fees is paid to Independent, Woman and Non-Executive Directors. No sitting fees is paid to Executive Director for attending the meetings of the Company. Dr. Raja Mohan Rao, Non-Executive Director has waived his right to receive sitting fees for attending the board / committee or any other meetings of the Company.
Ms. Bhavana Rao, Non-Executive Director of the Company for the year under review was appointed as employee of Trigyn Technologies Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and is paid remuneration from the wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Ms. Bhavana Rao, was appointed as Executive Director of the Company with effect from May 17, 2018 with Nil Remuneration.
The Criteria of making payments to Non-Executive Directors can be viewed at the website of our company at http:// www.trigyn.com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/CriteriaForMakingPaymentToNonExecutiveDirectors.aspx.
Pursuant to Regulation 46(2)(f) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (âListing Regulationsâ), following are the criteria for making payments to Non-executive Directors of the Company:
- Sitting Fee: The Non-executive Director(s) shall receive Sitting fees for attending meetings of the Board or Committee thereof or any other meeting as may be required to discharge their duties as Directors not exceeding the limits prescribed under Companies Act, 2013 read with Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 as may be applicable from time to time.
- Reimbursement of actual expenses incurred: NEDs may also be paid / reimbursed such sums incurred as actuals for travel, incidental and / or actual out of pocket expenses incurred by such Director / Member for attending Board / Committee / any other meetings / business of the Company.
The above criteria and policy are subject to review by the Nomination & Remuneration Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company from time to time.
There are no shares or convertible instruments held by or issue to Non-Executive Director.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 203 the Key Managerial Personnel of the Company are - Mr. R. Ganapathi, Chairman and Executive Director, Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar, Company Secretary and Mr. Amin Bhojani, Chief Financial Officer. During the year under review, there has been no change in the Key Managerial Personnel. Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar resigned w.e.f. June 7, 2018.
16. NUMBER OF MEETINGS OF BOARD
The Companyâs Board of Directors met four times during the year 2017-18 and the required information was placed before the Board. The Board Meetings took place on May 16, 2017, August 04, 2017, November 08, 2017 and February 08, 2018. For details of the meetings of the board, please refer to the corporate governance report, which forms a part of this report.
17. COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD
Currently the Board has five committees, (1) Audit Committee, (2) Nomination / Remuneration / Compensation Committee, (3) Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, (4) Stakeholders Relationship & Grievance Committee and (5) Risk Management Committee.
A detailed note on the Board and its committee is provided under the Corporate Governance Report section in this Annual Report.
18. BOARD EVALUATION
The Board of Directors have carried out an annual evaluation of its own performance, Board committees and individual Directors pursuant to the provisions of the Act and the corporate governance requirements as prescribed by Securities and Exchange Board of India (âSEBIâ) under SEBI Listing Regulations, 2015.
The performance of the Board was evaluated by the Board after seeking inputs from all the Directors on the basis of the criteria such as the Board composition and structure, effectiveness of Board processes, information and functioning, etc.
The Board and the Nomination / Remuneration / Compensation Committee (âNRCâ) reviewed the performance of the individual Directors on the basis of the criteria such as the contribution of the individual Director to the Board and committee meetings like preparedness on the issues to be discussed, meaningful and constructive contribution and inputs in meetings, etc. In addition, the Chairman was also evaluated on the key aspects of his role.
I n a separate meeting of Independent Directors, performance of Non-Independent Directors, performance of the Board as a whole and performance of the Chairman was evaluated, taking into account the views of Executive Directors and Non-Executive Directors. The same was discussed in the Board Meeting that followed the meeting of the Independent Directors, at which the performance of the Board, its committees and individual Directors was also discussed.
The framework of this evaluation includes but is not limited to the following parameters:
- Peer evaluation
- Decision making
- Information flows
- Board dynamics and relationships
- Relationship with stakeholders
- Tracking boards and committeeâs effectiveness
- Companyâs performance and strategy
19. POLICY ON DIRECTORâS APPOINTMENT AND REMUNERATION AND OTHER DETAILS.
The Companyâs policy on Directorsâ appointment and remuneration and other matters provided in Section 178(3) of the Act has been disclosed in the corporate governance report, which forms part of the Directorsâ Report.
20. INTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROL SYSTEM AND THEIR ADEQUACY
The details in respect of internal financial control and their adequacy are included in the Management Discussion & Analysis, which forms part of this report.
21. AUDIT COMMITTEE
The details pertaining to composition of audit committee are included in the Corporate Governance Report, which forms part of this report.
22. AUDITORS
Statutory Auditors
Pursuant to section 139 of the Act, your Company has appointed M/s Ford Rhodes Parks & Co LLP, Chartered Accountants, (Registration No. 102860W/W100089) as Auditors of the Company to hold office for the period of five consecutive years from the conclusion of the 31st Annual General Meeting of the Company till the conclusion 36th Annual General Meeting to be held in the year 2022.
Ford Rhodes Parks & Co LLP, Chartered Accountants has audited the book of accounts of the Company for the Financial Year ended March 31, 2018 and have issued the Auditorsâ Report thereon. There are no qualifications or reservations or adverse remarks or disclaimers in the said Report.
In terms of the provisions relating to statutory auditors forming part of the Companies Amendment Act, 2017, notified on May 7, 2018, ratification of appointment of Statutory Auditors at every AGM is no more a legal requirement. Accordingly, the Notice convening the ensuing AGM does not carry any resolution on ratification of appointment of Statutory Auditors. However, Ford Rhodes Parks & Co LLP, Chartered Accountants has confirmed that they are eligible to continue as Statutory Auditors of the Company to audit the books of accounts of the Company for the Financial Year ending March 31, 2019 and accordingly they will continue to be the Statutory Auditors of the Company for Financial Year ending March 31, 2019.
Secretarial Auditors
Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 inter-alia requires every listed company to annex with its Boardâs report, a Secretarial Audit Report given by a Company Secretary in practice, in the prescribed form. The Board had appointed M/s Anmol Jha & Associates, practicing Company Secretaries, as Secretarial Auditor to conduct Secretarial Audit of the Company for the Financial Year 2017-18.
23. AUDITORS REPORT AND SECRETARIAL AUDITORS REPORT
The Auditors Report and Secretarial Auditors Report does not contain any qualifications, reservations or adverse remarks. Report of the Secretarial Auditor is given as an annexure IV which forms part of this report.
24. RISK MANAGEMENT
Risk management is the process of identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated efforts to minimize, monitor and mitigate/control the probability and / or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities. The Board of the Company has formed a risk management committee to frame, implement and monitor the risk management plan for the Company. The committee is responsible for reviewing the risk management plan and ensuring its effectiveness. The audit committee has additional oversight in the area of financial risks and controls. Major risks identified by the businesses and functions are systematically addressed through mitigating actions on a continuing basis. The development and implementation of risk management policy has been covered in the management discussion and analysis, which forms part of this report.
25. PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES OR INVESTMENTS
The particulars of loans, guarantees and investments have been disclosed in the financial statements.
26. TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTY
None of the transactions with related parties falls under the scope of Section 188(1) of the Act. Information on transactions with related parties pursuant to Section 134(3)(h) of the Act read with rule 8(2) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 are given Form AOC - 2 (Annexure I ) and the same forms part of this report.
27. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
In line with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013, the Company has framed its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy for the development of programs and projects for the benefit of weaker sections of the society and the same has been approved by the CSR Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy of the Company provides a road map for its CSR activities. The purpose of CSR Policy is to devise an appropriate strategy and focus its CSR initiatives and lay down the broad principles on the basis of which the Company will fulfill its CSR objectives.
Over the years, we have been striving to achieve a fine balance of economic, environmental and social imperatives, while also paying attention to the needs and expectations of our internal as well as external stakeholders
The brief outline of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy of the Company and the initiatives undertaken by the Company on CSR activities during the year are set out in Annexure II of this report in the format prescribed in the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014. The policy is available on the website of the Company.
28. EXTRACTS OF ANNUAL RETURN
As provided under Section 92(3) of the Act, the extract of annual return is given in Annexure III in the prescribed Form MGT-9, which forms part of this report.
29. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
As per Para C of Schedule V of the SEBI Listing Regulations, corporate governance report with auditorsâ certificate thereon and management discussion and analysis are attached, which form part of this report.
Details of the familiarization programme of the Independent Directors are available on the website of the Company (URL:
http://www.trigyn.com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/FamiliarisationProgrammeforIndependentDirecectors.aspx). Policy for determining material subsidiaries of the Company is available on the website of the Company (URL: http://www.trigyn.com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/PolicyonMaterialSubsidiaries.aspx)
Policy on dealing with related party transactions is available on the website of the Company (URL: http://www.trigyn. com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/RelatedPartyTransactionPolicy.aspx).
The Company has formulated and published a Whistle Blower Policy to provide Vigil Mechanism for employees including Directors of the Company to report genuine concerns. The provisions of this policy are in line with the provisions of the Section 177(9) of the Act and the revised Clause 49 of the Listing Agreements with stock exchanges (URL: http://www.trigyn.com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/WhistleBlowerPolicy.aspx).
30. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGO:
A. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Your company consumes electricity only for the operation of its computer and administration of its offices. Though the consumption of electricity is negligible as compare to the total turnover of the company, your company always endeavors to take effective steps to reduce the consumption of electricity.
B. TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION
The Company has not absorbed any new technology during the year under review.
C. FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING/OUTGO:
The foreign exchange earnings of your Company during the year were Rs. 4,825.27/- (Previous year Rs. 5141.61/), while the outgoings were Rs. 901.37/-(Previous year Rs. 1497.69/-).
31. EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (ESOP)
Details required to be provided under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Share Based Employee Benefits) Regulations, 2014 (SEBI ESOP Regulations) are available on your Companyâs website.
The Company has obtained a certificate from auditors certifying that the said ESOP scheme have been implemented in accordance with the SEBI ESOP Regulations and the resolutions passed by the members in this regards. The Certificate will be placed at the AGM for inspection by the members which is also attached to this report.
32. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS REPORT
Your Directors reaffirm their continued commitment to good corporate governance practices. During the year under review, your Company was in compliance with the provisions relating to corporate governance as provided under the Listing Regulations. The compliance report is provided in the Corporate Governance section of this Annual Report. The auditorâs certificate on compliance with the conditions of corporate governance of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Requirement and Disclosure Obligations) Regulations, 2015 (Listing Regulations) forms part of this Report.
33. GREEN INITIATIVES
As in the previous years, this year too, we are publishing only the statutory disclosures in the print version of the Annual Report. Electronic copies of the Annual Report 2017-18 and Notice of the 32nd Annual General Meeting are sent to all members whose email addresses are registered with the Company / Depository Participant(s). For members who have not registered their email addresses, physical copies are sent in the permitted mode.
34. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the contribution made by employee at all level to the continued growth and prosperity of your Company.
Your Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation for the support provided by the Customer, Vendors, Investors, Bankers, SEEPZ, regulatory and government authorities in India and abroad.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
R. Ganapathi
Chairman and Executive Director
Place: Mumbai
Date: August 10, 2018
Mar 31, 2016
To the members,
The directors submit Thirtieth annual report of Trigyn Technologies Limited (the âCompanyâ or âTTLâ) along with the audited financial statements for the financial year ended March 31, 2016. Consolidated performance of the Company and its subsidiaries has been referred to wherever required.
1. SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Results for the period ended March 31, 2016 are given below:
(Rs.In lakhs)
Particular |
STANDALONE |
CONSOLIDATED |
||
Year ended |
Year ended |
Year ended |
Year ended |
|
March-16 |
March-15 |
March-16 |
March-15 |
|
Total income |
15,290.59 |
15,000.35 |
62,540.79 |
49,289.34 |
Operating expenses |
15,083.06 |
15,275.32 |
56,299.20 |
45,656.91 |
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) |
207.53 |
(274.98) |
6,241.59 |
3,632.43 |
Other Income |
178.44 |
253.42 |
180.12 |
354.28 |
Interest and finance charges |
35.98 |
31.09 |
121.33 |
69.60 |
Depreciation |
46.82 |
60.35 |
53.76 |
64.25 |
Profit before Exceptional and Extra-ordinary item and before taxes |
303.16 |
(113.00) |
6,246.62 |
3,852.85 |
Exceptional Items |
(37.00) |
163.33 |
(37.00) |
163.33 |
Extraordinary Items |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Profit before Tax |
266.17 |
50.34 |
6,209.63 |
4,016.19 |
Taxation |
86.86 |
48.09 |
2,357.90 |
1,568.67 |
Net profit / (loss) |
179.31 |
2.24 |
3,851.73 |
2,447.52 |
2. COMPANYâS PERFORMANCE
During the year under review on a standalone basis your company achieved Total Revenue of Rs.15,290.59 Lakhs as compared to Rs.15,000.35 lakhs in the previous year. The net profit on standalone basis stood at Rs. 179.31 lakhs as compared to Rs. 2.24 lakhs in the previous year.
During the year under review on a consolidated basis your company achieved Total Revenue of Rs.62,540.79 Lakhs as compared to Rs.49,289.34 lakhs in the previous year. The net profit on consolidated basis stood at Rs.3,851.73 lakhs as compared to Rs.2,447.52 lakhs in the previous year.
For the year ended March 31, 2016 on standalone basis EPS stood at Rs.0.6089/- and on Consolidated basis EPS stood at Rs.13.08/-.
3. DIVIDEND
In view of the accumulated losses, the Companies Act, 2013 doesnât permit recommendation of any dividend till such accumulated losses are written off.
4. CAPITAL REDUCTION
Under Section 52 of the Companies Act, 2013, the balance in the Securities Premium Account can only be utilized for purpose specified therein and any utilization of Securities Premium Account for other purpose would be construed as reduction in capital and provision of Sections 100 to 104 of the Companies Act, 1956 will be applicable.
Hence, the Board of Directors believe that in order to present fair financial position of the Company and after an analysis of the various options available to the Company, the Board of Directors felt that it would be prudent to utilize the balance lying in the Securities Premium Account of the Company to the extent of writing off the Accumulated Losses of the Company which is the most practical and economically efficient option available to the Company in the present scenario. A Special resolution for the approval of members of the Company for approving the Scheme of Capital Reduction is proposed in the Notice for the 30th Annual General Meeting of the Company
5. MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS AFFECTING FINANCIAL POSITION BETWEEN THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR AND DATE OF REPORT
There have been no material changes and commitments affecting financial position between the end of the financial year and date of report.
6. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
In its efforts to create better work environment, provide performance oriented growth opportunities and motivating and retaining the right talent, various employee engagement initiatives were carried out by the Company during the year. Some of the initiatives included monthly PoB (Pat on the Back) awards, Spot Peer Appreciation Awards along with Service Anniversaries and Stock Options.
Trigyn deploys its intellectual capability across the globe to create and deliver IT solutions that make a positive business impact for its customers. The key resource to make this happen is the talent within the organization. At Trigyn, we believe in nurturing our employees and hence undertake HR programs that focus on all aspects of the lifecycle of an employee which helps us attract and retain our best talent. The company continues to grow its global scale and footprint with a diverse talent base of employees, deployed across the globe. Efficient systems, processes and continuous investments in technology helps the company manage this complexity of a large, distributed and diverse workforce.
Amongst other initiatives, implementation of Rewards & Recognition Program and further improving the HRMS are some of the plans for the next year.
Sexual Harassment at workplace
The Company has zero tolerance for sexual harassment at workplace and has adopted a policy on prevention prohibition and redressal of sexual harassment at workplace in line with the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the rules thereunder for prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment at workplace.
During the financial year 2015-16, the Company has received no complaints on sexual harassment.
Particulars of employees
The information required under Section 197 of the Act read with rule 5(1) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 are given below:
a. The ratio of the remuneration of each director to the median remuneration of the employees of the Company for the financial year:
Non-executive directors |
Ratio to median Remuneration |
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
- |
Mr.V.V.Prasad |
0.90 |
Mr. Vivek Khare |
0.90 |
Dr. B.R. Patil |
0.85 |
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
0.85 |
Mr. Mohan Narayanan |
0.35 |
Executive directors |
|
Mr. Ganapathi Ramachandran |
64.93 |
Ms. Bhavana Rao |
34.08 |
b. The percentage increase in remuneration of each director, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, company secretary in the financial year:
Directors*, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary |
% increase in remuneration in the financial year |
Mr. R. Ganapathi |
2 |
Ms. P. Bhavana Rao |
153 |
Dr. B. R. Patil |
- |
Chi. V. V. Prasad |
- |
Mr. Vivek Khare |
- |
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
- |
Mr. Amin Bhojani |
20 |
Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar |
9 |
The above percentage increase in the remuneration including ESOP exercises.
* The Sitting Fees for the Directors was increased to Rs. 20,000 per Board or Committee Meeting in the Board Meeting held on February 3, 2016. Earlier it was Rs.10,000 for Board / Audit Committee Meeting and Rs.5,000 for any other Committee Meeting.
c. The percentage increase in the median remuneration of employees in the financial year : 9.73%
d. The number of permanent employees on the rolls of Company: 607
e. Average percentile increase already made in the salaries of employees other than the managerial personnel in the last financial year and its comparison with the percentile increase in the managerial remuneration and justification thereof and point out if there are any exceptional circumstances for increase in the managerial remuneration:
The average annual increase was around 11.76 %. However, during the course of the year, the total increase is approximately 11.82 %, after accounting for promotions and increase in hiring salaries for trainees. Increase in the managerial remuneration for the year was 78%.
f. Affirmation that the remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of the Company:
The Company affirms remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of the Company.
g. The statement containing particulars of employees as required under Section 197(12) of the Act read with Rule 5(2) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014, is not applicable to the Company as none of the employees of the Company were drawing remuneration in excess of the limits specified.
7. QUALITY INITIATIVES:
Sustained commitment to highest levels of quality and robust information security practices helped the Company attain significant milestones during the year.
Trigyn has adopted and achieved the following international standards for process definition and improvement
- ISO 9001-2008
- CMMI - DEV Version 1.3 - Level 3
The Company has a strong mechanism for taking feedback from the Customers through satisfaction surveys. The feedback is analyzed across multiple dimensions to drive improvement in Customer experience.
8. STATE OF COMPANYâS AFFAIRS Strategy
During the year, we continued to work on our vision and strengthened focus on our core competence area of IT services. We also introduced a number of strategies for the overall growth and productivity of the Company. The following are some of the broad areas covered by these initiatives:
Cost optimization
A series of measures have been initiated to yield high level of cost optimization. This includes increasing offshore effort ratio, deploying people in right jobs and eliminating unnecessary costs.
Enhancing sales productivity
There is a considerable focus on the sales team for the purpose of acquiring large and profitable project. A new sales team is in place to bring more revenue yielding opportunities.
Delivery
The Delivery team has been strengthened further and it has started showing immediate results in the form of positive feedback from customers.
9. SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
The Company has 3 subsidiaries as on March 31, 2016. There are no associate companies within the meaning of Section 2(6) of the Companies Act, 2013 (âActâ). There has been no material change in the nature of the business of the subsidiaries.
Pursuant to provisions of Section 129(3) of the Act read with rule 5 of Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, as amended from time to time, a statement containing salient features of the financial statements of the Companyâs subsidiaries in Form AOC-1 is attached to the financial statements of the Company.
Pursuant to the provisions of section 136 of the Act, the financial statements of the Company, consolidated financial statements along with relevant documents and separate audited accounts in respect of subsidiaries, are available on the website of the Company.
The names of companies which became Companyâs subsidiary / joint venture / associate company during the financial year 2015-16 are as under:
1. Trigyn Digital Inc. (Canada) (step-down subsidiary). It is a subsidiary of Trigyn Technologies Inc. which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trigyn Technologies Limited.Trigyn Digital Inc. was incorporated on January 27, 2015 and was wound up on April 14, 2016.
10. DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to Section 134 (5) of the Companies Act, 2013, the board of directors, to the best of their knowledge and ability, confirm that:
i. in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting standards have been followed and there are no material departures;
ii. they have 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 of the Company for that period;
iii. they have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;
iv. they have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis;
v. they have laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and such internal financial controls are adequate and operating effectively;
vi. they have devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.
Based on the framework of internal financial controls and compliance systems established and maintained by the Company, work performed by the internal, statutory and secretarial auditors and external consultants, including audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting by the statutory auditors and the reviews performed by management and the relevant board committees, including the audit committee, the board is of the opinion that the Companyâs internal financial controls were adequate and effective during the financial year 2015-16.
11. DIRECTORS AND KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 149 of the Companies Act, 2013 (the âActâ), Chi. V. V. Prasad, Mr. Vivek Khare, Dr. B. R .Patil, Mr. A. R. Ansari and Mr. Mohan Narayanan were appointed as Independent Directors at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on September 26, 2014. They have submitted the declaration that each of them meets the criteria of independence as prescribed under Section 149(6) of the Act and there has been no change in the circumstances which affect their status as independent director during the year.
In accordance with the requirements of the Act and the Articles of Association of the Company, Mr. R. Ganapathi, retires by rotation and being eligible has offered himself for re-appointment.
During the year, the non-executive directors of the Company had following pecuniary relationship or transactions with the Company.
Names |
Sitting fees (Rs.) |
Reimbursement of expenses incurred for attending the Meetings of the Company (Rs.) |
Any other transaction (Rs.) |
Mr. Ch. V.V. Prasad |
90,000 |
2,815 |
NIL |
Mr. Vivek Khare |
90,000 |
337,596 |
NIL |
Dr. B. R. Patil |
85,000 |
239,055 |
NIL |
Mr. A. R. Ansari |
85,000 |
354,212 |
NIL |
Mr. Mohan Narayanan |
35,000 |
169,219 |
NIL |
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao |
Nil |
277,694 |
2,282,929 |
*Sitting fees is Rs. 20,000 per meeting against Rs. 10,000 for Board or Audit committee and Rs. 5000 for any other meetings
Criteria of making payments to non-executive directors
Sitting fees is only paid to Independent and woman directors and no sitting fees is payable to any other nonexecutive or Executive Director for attending the meetings of the Company.
Any expenses incurred by the non-executive director for attending any meetings of the company or attending any business of the company is reimbursed by the company at actuals.
There are no shares or convertible instruments held by or issued to non-executive directors
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 203 of the Act, which came into effect from April 1, 2014 the appointments of Mr. R. Ganapathi, Chairman and Executive Director, Ms. P. Bhavana, Executive Director, Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar, Company Secretary and Mr. Amin Bhojani, Chief Financial Officer as key managerial personnel of the Company were formalized.
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao, Non-Executive Director is the father of Ms. P. Bhavana Rao, Executive Director of the Company.
12. NUMBER OF MEETINGS OF BOARD
The Companyâs Board of Directors met four times during the year 2015-16 and the required information has been placed before the Board. The Board Meetings took place on May 25, 2015, August 7, 2015, November 4, 2015 and February 3, 2016. For details of the meetings of the board, please refer to the corporate governance report, which forms part of this report.
13. COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD
Currently the Board has five committees, the Audit Committee, Nomination / Remuneration / Compensation Committee, Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, Stakeholders Relationship & Grievance Committee, and Risk Management Committee
A detailed note on the Board and its committee is provided under the Corporate Governance Report section in this Annual Report.
14. BOARD EVALUATION
The board of directors has carried out an annual evaluation of its own performance, Board committees and individual directors pursuant to the provisions of the Act and the corporate governance requirements as prescribed by Securities and Exchange Board of India (âSEBIâ) under SEBI Listing Regulations, 2015.
The performance of the Board was evaluated by the Board after seeking inputs from all the directors on the basis of the criteria such as the Board composition and structure, effectiveness of board processes, information and functioning, etc.
The Board and the Nomination / Remuneration / Compensation Committee (âNRCâ) reviewed the performance of the individual directors on the basis of the criteria such as the contribution of the individual director to the Board and committee meetings like preparedness on the issues to be discussed, meaningful and constructive contribution and inputs in meetings, etc. In addition, the Chairman was also evaluated on the key aspects of his role.
In a separate meeting of independent directors, performance of non-independent directors, performance of the board as a whole and performance of the Chairman was evaluated, taking into account the views of executive directors and non-executive directors. The same was discussed in the board meeting that followed the meeting of the independent Directors, at which the performance of the Board, its committees and individual directors was also discussed.
15. POLICY ON DIRECTORâS APPOINTMENT AND REMUNERATION AND OTHER DETAILS
The Companyâs policy on directorsâ appointment and remuneration and other matters provided in Section 178(3) of the Act has been disclosed in the corporate governance report, which forms part of the directorsâ report.
16. INTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROL SYSTEM AND THEIR ADEQUACY
The details in respect of internal financial control and their adequacy are included in the Management Discussion & Analysis, which forms part of this report.
17. AUDIT COMMITTEE
The details pertaining to composition of audit committee are included in the Corporate Governance Report, which forms part of this report.
18. AUDITORS Statutory Auditors
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 139 of the Act and the rules framed there under, M/s. Ford, Rhodes, Parks & Co. (now known as M/s Ford Rhodes Parks & Co. LLP), Chartered Accountants, were appointed as statutory auditors of the Company from the conclusion of the Twenty Eighth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company held on September 26, 2014 till the conclusion of the Thirty First AGM to be held in the year 2017, subject to ratification of their appointment at every AGM.
Secretarial Auditors
M/s Anmol Jha & Associates, Practicing Company Secretaries was appointed to conduct Secretarial Audit of the Company for the financial year 2015-16, as required under Section 204 of the Companies act, 2013 and Rules there under.
19. AUDITORSâ REPORT AND SECRETARIAL AUDITORSâ REPORT:
The auditorsâ report and secretarial auditorsâ report do not contain any qualifications, reservations or adverse remarks. Report of the secretarial auditor is given as an annexure which forms part of this report.
With respect to the observation by the Secretarial Auditor in the Secretarial Audit Report the management has the following explanation:
20. RISK MANAGEMENT
The Board of the Company has formed a risk management committee to frame, implement and monitor the risk management plan for the Company. The committee is responsible for reviewing the risk management plan and ensuring its effectiveness. The audit committee has additional oversight in the area of financial risks and controls. Major risks identified by the businesses and functions are systematically addressed through mitigating actions on a continuing basis. The development and implementation of risk management policy has been covered in the management discussion and analysis, which forms part of this report.
21. PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES OR INVESTMENTS
The particulars of loans, guarantees and investments have been disclosed in the financial statements.
22. TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
None of the transactions with related parties fall under the scope of Section 188(1) of the Act. Information on transactions with related parties pursuant to Section 134(3)(h) of the Act read with rule 8(2) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 are given in Annexure I in Form AOC-2 and the same forms part of this report.
23. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Over the years, we have been striving to achieve a fine balance of economic, environmental and social imperatives, while also paying attention to the needs and expectations of our internal as well as external stakeholders.
The brief outline of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy of the Company and the initiatives undertaken by the Company on CSR activities during the year are set out in Annexure II of this report in the format prescribed in the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014. The policy is available on the website of the Company.
24. EXTRACTS OF ANNUAL RETURN
As provided under Section 92(3) of the Act, the extract of annual return is given in Annexure III in the prescribed Form MGT-9, which forms part of this report.
25. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
As per Para C of Schedule V of the SEBI Listing Regulations, corporate governance report with auditorsâ certificate thereon and management discussion and analysis are attached, which form part of this report.
Details of the familiarization programme of the independent directors are available on the website of the Company (URL:http://www.trigyn.com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/FamiliarisationProgrammeforIndependentDirecectors. aspx).
Policy for determining material subsidiaries of the Company is available on the website of the Company (URL: http:// www.trigyn.com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/PolicyonMaterialSubsidiaries.aspx).
Policy on dealing with related party transactions is available on the website of the Company (URL: http://www.trigyn. com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/RelatedPartyTransactionPolicy.aspx).
The Company has formulated and published a Whistle Blower Policy to provide Vigil Mechanism for employees including directors of the Company to report genuine concerns. The provisions of this policy are in line with the provisions of the Section 177(9) of the Act and the revised Clause 49 of the Listing Agreements with stock exchanges (URL: http://www.trigyn.com/Investors/CodesandPolicies/WhistleBlowerPolicy.aspx).
26. DEPOSIT FROM PUBLIC
The Company has not accepted any deposits from public and as such, no amount on account of principal or interest on deposits from public was outstanding as on the date of the balance sheet.
27. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGO
A. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Your company consumes electricity only for the operation of its computer and administration of its offices. Though the consumption of electricity is negligible as compared to the total turnover of the company, your company always endeavors to take effective steps to reduce the consumption of electricity.
a) |
The steps taken or impact on conservation of energy |
N.A. |
b) |
The steps taken by the company for utilizing alternate sources of energy |
N.A. |
c) |
The capital investment on energy conservation equipments |
N.A. |
d) |
Expenditure on R&D |
N.A. |
B. TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION
The Company has not absorbed any new technology during the year under review.
a) |
Efforts made towards technology absorption |
N.A. |
b) |
Benefits derived like product improvement, cost reduction, product development or import substitution |
N.A. |
c) |
Information regarding Imported Technology |
N.A. |
d) |
Expenditure on Research and Development |
Nil |
C. FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING/OUTGO
The foreign exchange earnings of your Company during the year were Rs. 1,472,708,786/- (Previous year Rs.1,488,697,928/-), while the outgoings were Rs.1,113,484,857/-(Previous year Rs. 1,206,261,959/-).
i. EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (ESOP):
Details required to be provided under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 (SEBI Guidelines) are set out in Annexure IV to this report.
The Company has obtained a certificate from auditors certifying that the said ESOP scheme have been implemented in accordance with the SEBI Guidelines and the resolutions passed by the members in this regard. The Certificate will be placed at the AGM for inspection by the members which is also attached to this report.
28. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS REPORT
Corporate Governance is an ethically driven business process that is committed to values aimed at enhancing an organizationâs brand and reputation. This is ensured by taking ethical business decisions and conducting business with a firm commitment to values, while meeting shareholderâs expectations. As per clause 49 of the Listing Agreements entered into with the Stock Exchanges, Corporate Governance Report with auditorsâ certificate thereon and Management Discussion and Analysis are attached and form part of this report. Several aspects of the Act, such as Whistle Blower Policy, Code of Conduct and Ethics, have been incorporated into our policies.
29. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the contributions made by employees at all level to the continued growth and prosperity of your Company.
Your Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation for the support provided by the Customer, Vendors, Investors, Bankers, SEEPZ, regulatory and government authorities in India and abroad.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors of
Trigyn Technologies Limited
R. Ganapathi
Chairman and Executive Director
Place: Mumbai
Date: August 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2015
The directors submit twenty ninth annual report of Trigyn Technologies
Limited (the "Company" or "TTL") along with the audited financial
statements for the financial year ended March 31, 2015. Consolidated
performance of the Company and its subsidiaries has been referred to
wherever required.
1. SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Results for the period ended March 31, 2015 are given below:
(Rs. In lakhs)
ITEM STANDALONE CONSOLIDATED
Year ended Year ended Year ended Year ended
March-15 March-14 March-15 March-14
Income
Income from operations 15000.35 15837.14 49289.34 45170.83
Other Income 253.42 474.90 354.28 510.72
Total Revenue 15253.77 16312.04 49643.62 45681.55
Less: Expenditure
Operating and Other Expenses 15306.42 15288.66 45726.51 40955.42
Depreciation 60.35 70.48 64.25 78.09
Profit/Loss before
extraordinary items and tax (113.00) 952.90 3852.86 4648.04
Add/(Less) :
Exceptional Items 163.33 60.43 163.33 60.43
Add: Extraordinary Items 0.00 5106.70 0.00 5106.71
Profit before Tax 50.33 6120.03 4016.19 9815.18
Tax Expenses 48.09 372.90 1568.66 1741.20
Net Profit 2.24 5747.13 2447.53 8073.98
2. COMPANY'S PERFORMANCE
During the year under review on a standalone basis your company
achieved Total Revenue of Rs. 15,253.77 as compared to Rs. 16,312.04
lakhs in the previous year. The net Profit on standalone basis stood at
Rs. 2.24 lakhs as compared to Rs. 5,747.14 lakhs in the previous year.
This was mainly due to exceptional items in the previous year.
For the year ended March 31, 2015 on standalone basis EPS stood at Rs.
0.00763/- and on Consolidated basis EPS stood at Rs. 8.33/-.
Your Company foresees a better outlook.
3. DIVIDEND
The Board of Directors of your Company is constrained to recommend any
dividend for the year under review.
4. TRANSFER TO RESERVES
The Company proposes to transfer Rs14,685,368 to the general reserve.
5. MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS AFFECTING FINANCIAL POSITION
BETWEEN THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR AND DATE OF REPORT
There have been no material changes and commitments affecting financial
position between the end of the financial year and date of report.
6. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
To ensure good human resource management at Trigyn, we focus in all
aspects of the employee lifecycle. This provides a holistic experience
for the employees as well. During their tenure at the company,
employees are motivated through various skill-development, engagement
and volunteering programs. All the while, we create effective dialogs
through our communication channel to ensure that the feedback reach the
relevant teams, including the leadership.
The Company continues to grow its global scale and footprint with a
diverse talent base of 771 employees representing 18 nationalities,
deployed across the globe. Efficient systems, processes and continuous
investments in technology helps the Company manage this complexity of a
large, distributed and diverse workforce
Sexual Harassment at workplace
The Company has zero tolerance for sexual harassment at workplace and
has adopted a policy on prevention prohibition and redressal of sexual
harassment at workplace in line with the provisions of the Sexual
Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and
Redressal) Act, 2013 and the rules thereunder for prevention and
redressal of complaints of sexual harassment at workplace.
During the financial year 2014-15, the Company has received no
complaints on sexual harassment.
Particulars of employees
The information required under Section 197 of the Act read with rule
5(1) of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial
Personnel) Rules, 2014 are given below:
a. The ratio of the remuneration of each director to the median
remuneration of the employees of the Company for the financial year:
Non-executive directors Ratio to median
remuneration
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao -
Dr. B. R. Patil 0.69
Chi .V. V. Prasad 1.04
Mr. Vivek Khare 1.04
Mr. A. R. Ansari 0.69
Mr. Mohan Narayanan 0.59
Executive directors
Mr. R. Ganapathi 69.79
Ms. P. Bhavana Rao 14.78
b. The percentage increase in remuneration of each director, chief
executive officer, chief financial officer, company secretary in the
financial year:
Directors, Chief Executive Officer,
Chief Financial Officer % increase in
remuneration in the
and Company Secretary financial year
Mr. R. Ganapathi -
Ms. P. Bhavana Rao -
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao -
Dr. B.R.Patil -
Chi .V.V.Prasad -
Mr. Vivek Khare -
Mr.A.R.Ansari -
Mr. Amin Bhojani 10.19
Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar 21
c. The percentage increase in the median remuneration of employees in
the financial year : 12.9%
d. The number of permanent employees on the rolls of Company: 771
e. The explanation on the relationship between average increase in
remuneration and Company performance:
On an average, employees received an annual increase of approx. 9.7% in
India. The individual increments varied from 2% to 41%, based on
individual performance.
The increase in remuneration is in line with the market trends. In
order to ensure that remuneration reflects Company performance, the
performance pay is also linked to organization performance, apart from
an individual's performance.
f. Comparison of the remuneration of the key managerial personnel
against the performance of the Company:
Aggregate remuneration of key managerial
personnel (KMP) in FY15 (Rs.Lacs) INR 119.47
Revenue (Rs.Lacs) 15000.00
Remuneration of KMPs (as % of revenue) 0.80
Profit before Tax (PBT) (Rs.Lacs) 50.00
Remuneration of KMP (as % of PBT) 238.95
g. Variations in the market capitalization of the Company, price
earnings ratio as at the closing date of the current financial year and
previous financial year:
Particulars March 31, 2015 March 31, 2014 % Change
Market Capitalization
(Rs. In Crores) 103.56 82.24 25.92%
Price Earnings Ratio 3520 1.43 2,46,053.85%
h. Percentage increase over decrease in the market quotations of the
shares of the Company in comparison to the rate at which the Company
came out with the last public offer:
Particulars March 31, 2015 Date of IPO (IPO) % Change
Market Price (BSE) 35.20 March 16, 1995 Rs. 50 (29.6)
Market Price (ASE) Delisted January 1995 Rs. 50 -
Market Price (NSE) 35.85 April 9, 1998*
(*Date of Listing) -
Rs 534.90 (
Closing price
on the date of listing)
BSE Â Bombay Stock Exchange Limited
ASE Â The Ahmedabad Stock Exchange Limited
NSE Â National Stock Exchange of India Limited
The Company made its maiden public issue in January 1995 and got its
Equity Shares listed at the Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE) (now known as
Bombay Stock Exchange Limited) and The Ahmedabad Stock Exchange (ASE)
(non known as The Ahmedabad Stock Exchange Limited). The Equity Shares
were admitted for trading at NSE on March 24, 1998.
During January 1995 the company issued to the public through a
prospectus. 8,22,334 No. of equity shares of Rs. 10 each at a premium
of Rs. 40 per share.
i. Average percentile increase already made in the salaries of
employees other than the managerial personnel in the last financial year
and its comparison with the percentile increase in the managerial
remuneration and justification thereof and point out if there are any
exceptional circumstances for increase in the managerial remuneration:
The average annual increase was around 9.7% after accounting for
promotions and other event based compensation revisions. Increase in
the managerial remuneration for the year was 8.6%.
j. Comparison of each remuneration of the key managerial personnel
against the performance of the Company:
Mr. R.
Ganapathi Ms. P.
Bhavana Rao Mr. Amin
Bhojani - Mr.
Parthasarathy
Iyengar
- Executive
Director - Executive
Director Chief
Financial
Officer - Company
Secretary
Remuneration in FY15 63.61 13.47 24.24 18.15
(Rs. lacs)
Revenue (Rs. Lacs) 15000.00
Remuneration as % of 0.42 0.09 0.16 0.12
Revenue
Profit before Tax (PBT) 50.00
(Rs. Lacs)
Remuneration 127.22 26.94 48.49 36.30
(as % of PBT)
k. The key parameters for any variable component of remuneration
availed by the directors:
Not Applicable.
l. The ratio of the remuneration of the highest paid director to that
of the employees who are not directors but receive remuneration in
excess of the highest paid director during the year: None of the
employees drew remuneration in excess of the highest paid director
during the year
m. Affirmation that the remuneration is as per the remuneration policy
of the Company:
The Company affirms remuneration is as per the remuneration policy of
the Company.
n. The statement containing particulars of employees as required under
Section 197(12) of the Act read with Rule 5(2) of the Companies
(Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014, is
not applicable to the Company as none of the employees of the Company
were drawing remuneration in excess of the limits specified.
7. QUALITY INITIATIVES:
Sustained commitment to highest levels of quality and robust
information security practices helped the Company attain significant
milestones during the year.
Trigyn has adopted and achieved the following international standards
for process definition and improvement
- ISO 9001-2008
- CMMI - DEV Version 1.3 - Level 3
8. STATE OF COMPANY'S AFFAIRS
Strategy
During the year, we continued to work on our vision and strengthened
focus on our core competence area of IT services. We also introduced a
number of strategies for the overall growth and productivity of the
Company. The following are some of the broad areas covered by these
initiatives:
Cost optimization
A series of measures have been initiated to yield high level of cost
optimization. This includes increasing offshore effort ratio, deploying
people in right jobs and eliminating unnecessary costs.
Enhancing sales productivity
There is a considerable focus on the sales team for the purpose of
acquiring large and Profitable project. A new sales team is in place to
bring more revenue yielding opportunities.
Delivery
The Delivery team has been strengthened further and it has started
showing immediate results in the form of positive feedback from
customers.
9. SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
The Company has 3 subsidiaries as on March 31, 2015. There are no
associate companies within the meaning of Section 2(6) of the Companies
Act, 2013 ("Act"). There has been no material change in the nature of
the business of the subsidiaries.
Pursuant to provisions of Section 129(3) of the Act read with rule 5 of
Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, a statement containing salient
features of the financial statements of the Company's subsidiaries in
Form AOC-1 is attached to the financial statements of the Company.
Pursuant to the provisions of section 136 of the Act, the financial
statements of the Company, consolidated financial statements along with
relevant documents and separate audited accounts in respect of
subsidiaries, are available on the website of the Company.
The names of companies which became Company' subsidiary / joint venture
/ associate company during the financial year 2014-15 are as under:
- Trigyn Digital Inc. (Canada) (step-down subsidiary. It is a
subsidiary of Trigyn Technologies Inc. which is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Trigyn Technologies Limited).
10. DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to Section 134 (5) of the Companies Act, 2013, the board of
directors, to the best of their knowledge and ability, confrm that:
(i) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable
accounting standards have been followed and there are no material
departures;
(ii) they have 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 of the
Company for that period;
(iii) they have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the
Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and
detecting fraud and other irregularities;
(iv) they have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis;
(v) they have laid down internal financial controls to be followed by
the Company and such internal financial controls are adequate and
operating effectively;
(vi) they have devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the
provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate
and operating effectively.
Based on the framework of internal financial controls and compliance
systems established and maintained by the Company, work performed by
the internal, statutory and secretarial auditors and external
consultants and the reviews performed by management and the relevant
board committees, including the audit committee, the board is of the
opinion that the Company's internal financial controls were adequate and
effective during the financial year 2014-15.
11. DIRECTORS AND KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 149 of the Companies Act, 2013
(the "Act"), which came into effect from April 1, 2014, Chi. V. V.
Prasad, Mr. Vivek Khare, Dr. B. R .Patil, Mr. A. R. Ansari and Mr.
Mohan Narayanan were appointed as Independent Directors at the Annual
General Meeting of the Company held on September 26, 2014. The terms
and conditions of appointment of Independent Directors are as per
Schedule IV of the Act. They have submitted the declaration that each
of them meets the criteria of independence as prescribed under Section
149(6) of the Act and there has been no change in the circumstances
which affect their status as independent director during the year.
In accordance with the requirements of the Act and the Articles of
Association of the Company, Ms. P. Bhavana Rao, retires by rotation and
being eligible has offered herself for re-appointment.
During the year, the non-executive directors of the Company had
following pecuniary relationship or transactions with the Company.
Names Sitting fees (Rs.) Reimbursement of Any other
transaction
expenses incurred
for (Rs.)
attending the
Meetings of the
Company (Rs.)
Mr. Ch. V.V. Prasad 95,000 NIL NIL
Mr. Vivek Khare 95,000 2,07,810 NIL
Dr. B. R. Patil 65,000 2,12,092 NIL
Mr. A. R. Ansari 65,000 3,11,244 NIL
Mr. Mohan Narayanan 55,000 1,52,724 NIL
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao Nil 2,77,694 31,20,662
Criteria of making payments to non-executive directors
Sitting fees is only paid to Independent and woman directors and no
sitting fees is payable to any other non- executive or Executive
Director for attending the meetings of the Company.
Any expenses incurred by the non-executive director for attending any
meetings of the company or attending any business of the company is
reimbursed by the company at actual.
There are no shares or convertible instruments held by or issue to
non-executive directors.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 203 of the Act, which came into
effect from April 1, 2014 the appointments of Mr. R. Ganapathi,
Chairman and Executive Director, Ms. P. Bhavana, Executive Director,
Mr. Parthasarathy Iyengar, Company Secretary and Mr. Amin Bhojani,
Chief Financial Officer as key managerial personnel of the Company were
formalized.
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao, Non-Executive Director is the father of Ms. P.
Bhavana Rao, Executive Director of the Company.
12. NUMBER OF MEETINGS OF BOARD
The Company's Board of Directors met four times during the year 2014-15
and the required information has been placed before the Board. The
Board Meetings took place on May 23, 2014, August 8, 2014, November 7,
2014 and February 13, 2015. For details of the meetings of the board,
please refer to the corporate governance report, which forms part of
this report.
13. COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD
Currently the Board has five committees, the Audit Committee, Nomination
/ Remuneration / Compensation Committee, Corporate Social
Responsibility Committee, Stakeholders Relationship & Grievance
Committee, and Risk Management Committee A detailed note on the Board
and its committee is provided under the Corporate Governance Report
section in this Annual Report
14. BOARD EVALUATION
The board of directors has carried out an annual evaluation of its own
performance, Board committees and individual directors pursuant to the
provisions of the Act and the corporate governance requirements as
prescribed by Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI") under
Clause 49 of the Listing Agreements ("Clause 49").
The performance of the Board was evaluated by the Board after seeking
inputs from all the directors on the basis of the criteria such as the
Board composition and structure, effectiveness of board processes,
information and functioning, etc.
The Board and the Nomination / Remuneration / Compensation Committee
("NRC") reviewed the performance of the individual directors on the
basis of the criteria such as the contribution of the individual
director to the Board and committee meetings like preparedness on the
issues to be discussed, meaningful and constructive contribution and
inputs in meetings, etc. In addition, the Chairman was also evaluated
on the key aspects of his role.
In a separate meeting of independent directors, performance of
non-independent directors, performance of the board as a whole and
performance of the Chairman was evaluated, taking into account the
views of executive directors and non-executive directors. The same was
discussed in the board meeting that followed the meeting of the
independent Directors, at which the performance of the Board, its
committees and individual directors was also discussed.
15. POLICY ON DIRECTOR'S APPOINTMENT AND REMUNERATION AND OTHER
DETAILS.
The Company's policy on directors' appointment and remuneration and
other matters provided in Section 178(3) of the Act has been disclosed
in the corporate governance report, which forms part of the directors'
report.
16. INTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROL SYSTEM AND THEIR ADEQUACY
The details in respect of internal financial control and their adequacy
are included in the Management Discussion & Analysis, which forms part
of this report.
17. AUDIT COMMITTEE
The details pertaining to composition of audit committee are included
in the Corporate Governance Report, which forms part of this report.
18. AUDITORS
Statutory Auditors
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 139 of the Act and the rules
framed thereunder, M/s. Ford, Rhodes, Parks & Co., Chartered
Accountants, were appointed as statutory auditors of the Company from
the conclusion of the Twenty Eighth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the
Company held on September 26, 2014 till the conclusion of the Thirty
First AGM to be held in the year 2017, subject to ratification of their
appointment at every AGM.
Secretarial Auditors
M/s Anmol Jha & Associates, Practicing Company Secretaries was
appointed to conduct Secretarial Audit of the Company for the financial
year 2014-15, as required under Section 204 of the Companies act, 2013
and Rules thereunder.
19. AUDITORS REPORT AND SECRETARIAL AUDITORS REPORT:
The auditors' report does not contain any qualifications,
reservations or adverse remarks. Report of the secretarial auditor is
given as an annexure which forms part of this report.
With respect to the observation by the Secretarial Auditor in the
Secretarial Audit Report the management has the following explanation:
Trigyn Technologies Limited had incorporated some companies in the past
at overseas locations with a view to expand business. However, over a
period of time some of these entities were in-operative and no longer a
part of the overall business strategy of the Company. However, in the
meanwhile the promoters of the Company changed and these non-operative
overseas entities didn't get due attention. The present promoters and
management of the Company is working towards fulfilling the necessary
compliance backlog in this regard and hence has applied for the
administrative approval from RBI and will file for compounding as per
prevailing FEMA regulations.
20. RISK MANAGEMENT
The Board of the Company has formed a risk management committee to
frame, implement and monitor the risk management plan for the Company.
The committee is responsible for reviewing the risk management plan and
ensuring its effectiveness. The audit committee has additional
oversight in the area of financial risks and controls. Major risks
identified by the businesses and functions are systematically addressed
through mitigating actions on a continuing basis. The development and
implementation of risk management policy has been covered in the
management discussion and analysis, which forms part of this report.
21. PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES OR INVESTMENTS
The particulars of loans, guarantees and investments have been
disclosed in the financial statements.
22. TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTY
None of the transactions with related parties falls under the scope of
Section 188(1) of the Act. Information on transactions with related
parties pursuant to Section 134(3)(h) of the Act read with rule 8(2) of
the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 are given in Annexure I in Form
AOC-2 and the same forms part of this report.
23. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Over the years, we have been striving to achieve a fne balance of
economic, environmental and social imperatives, while also paying
attention to the needs and expectations of our internal as well as
external stakeholders.
The brief outline of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy
of the Company and the initiatives undertaken by the Company on CSR
activities during the year are set out in Annexure II of this report in
the format prescribed in the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility
Policy) Rules, 2014. The policy is available on the website of the
Company.
24. EXTRACTS OF ANNUAL RETURN
As provided under Section 92(3) of the Act, the extract of annual
return is given in Annexure III in the prescribed Form MGT-9, which
forms part of this report.
25. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
As per Clause 49 of the listing agreements entered into with the stock
exchanges, corporate governance report with auditors' certificate
thereon and management discussion and analysis are attached, which form
part of this report.
Details of the familiarization programme of the independent directors
are available on the website of the Company (URL: www.trigyn.com).
Policy for determining material subsidiaries of the Company is
available on the website of the Company (URL: www.trigyn.com)
Policy on dealing with related party transactions is available on the
website of the Company (URL: www.trigyn. com).
The Company has formulated and published a Whistle Blower Policy to
provide Vigil Mechanism for employees including directors of the
Company to report genuine concerns. The provisions of this policy are
in line with the provisions of the Section 177(9) of the Act and the
revised Clause 49 of the Listing Agreements with stock exchanges (URL:
www.trigyn.com).
26. DEPOSIT FROM PUBLIC
The Company has not accepted any deposits from public and as such, no
amount on account of principal or interest on deposits from public was
outstanding as on the date of the balance sheet.
27. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, FOREIGN EXCHANGE
EARNINGS AND OUTGO:
A. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Your company consumes electricity only for the operation of its
computer and administration of its offices. Though the consumption of
electricity is negligible as compare to the total turnover of the
company, your company always endeavors to take effective steps to
reduce the consumption of electricity.
a) The steps taken or impact on conservation of energy N.A.
b) The steps taken by the company for utilizing alternate sources of
energy N.A.
c) The capital investment on energy conservation equipments N.A.
d) Expenditure on R&D N.A.
B. TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION
The Company has not absorbed any new technology during the year under
review.
a) Efforts made towards technology absorption N.A.
b) Benefits derived like product improvement, cost reduction, product
development or import N.A. substitution
c) Information regarding Imported Technology N.A.
d) Expenditure on Research and Development Nil
C. FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING/OUTGO:
The foreign exchange earnings of your Company during the year were Rs
1,488,697,928/- (Previous year Rs. 1,578,241,459/-) ,while the
outgoings were Rs. 1,206,261,959/- (Previous year Rs. 1,206,343,728/-).
28. EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (ESOP):
Details required to be provided under the Securities and Exchange Board
of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase
Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 (SEBI Guidelines) are set out in Annexure IV
to this report.
The Company has obtained a certificate from auditors certifying that the
said ESOP scheme have been implemented in accordance with the SEBI
Guidelines and the resolutions passed by the members in this regard.
The Certificate will be placed at the AGM for inspection by the members
which is also attached to this report.
29. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
REPORT:
Corporate Governance is an ethically driven business process that is
committed to values aimed at enhancing an organization's brand and
reputation. This is ensured by taking ethical business decisions and
conducting business with a firm commitment to values, while meeting
shareholder's expectations. As per clause 49 of the Listing Agreements
entered into with the Stock Exchanges, Corporate Governance Report with
auditors' certificate thereon and Management Discussion and Analysis are
attached and form part of this report. Several aspects of the Act, such
as Whistle Blower Policy, Code of Conduct and Ethics, have been
incorporated into our policies.
30. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the
contribution made by employee at all level to the continued growth and
prosperity of your Company.
Your Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation for the
support provided by the Company's Bankers, Customers, Vendors, SEEPZ,
regulatory and government authorities in India and abroad.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
of Trigyn Technologies Limited
R. Ganapathi
Chairman and Executive Director
Place: Mumbai
Date : August 7, 2015
Mar 31, 2014
Dear members,
The Directors have pleasure in presenting the Twenty Eighth Annual
Report together with the audited accounts of the company for the year
ended 31st March, 2014.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Results (Standalone) for the period ended March 31, 2014 are
given below:
(Rs. In lakhs)
UN-CONSOLIDATED I CONSOLIDATED
ITEM Year ended Year ended Year ended Year ended
March 31,2014 March 31,2013 March 31,2014 March 31,2013
Income
Income from
operations 15,837.14 3,929.05 45,170.83 34,842.45
Other Income 474.90 283.57 510.72 288.50
Total Revenue 16312.04 4212.62 45681.54 35130.94
Less:
Expenditure
Operating and
Other Expenses 15288.66 3552.55 40955.43 32660.53
Depreciation 70.48 77.40 78.09 81.80
Profit before
Tax 952.91 582.67 4648.03 2388.62
Tax Expenses 372.90 146.64 1741.21 823.25
Profit / (Loss)
after Tax 580.00 436.03 2906.83 1565.37
Add/Less :
Exceptional Items 60.43 0.00 60.43 0.00
Add: Extraordinary
Items 5106.70 0.00 5106.70 0.00
Net Profit 5747.141 436.031 8073.961 1565.37
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
During the year under review on a consolidated basis your company
achieved revenue of Rs. 45,170.83 lakhs a growth of 29.78% in revenue
as compared to the previous year, while on standalone basis it grew by
306.86%. Your Company posted a net profit of Rs. 5747.14 lakhs on a
standalone basis and Rs. 8073.96 lakhs on a consolidated basis.
For the year ended March 31, 2014 on consolidated basis EPS stood at
Rs. 27.49/-.
Your Company has improved its'' performance over previous year and
foresees a better outlook.
TRANSFER TO RESERVES & DIVIDEND
Please see Addendum I to the report.
FIXED DEPOSITS
We have not accepted any fixed deposits and, as such, no amount of
principal or interest was outstanding as of the balance sheet date.
BUSINESS
Strategy
During the year, we continued to work on our vision and strengthened
focus on our core competence area of IT services. We also introduced a
number of strategies for the overall growth and productivity of the
Company. The following are some of the broad areas covered by these
initiatives:
Cost optimization
A series of measures have been initiated to yield high level of cost
optimization. This includes increasing offshore effort ratio, deploying
people in right jobs and eliminating unnecessary costs.
Enhancing sales productivity
There is a considerable focus on the sales team for the purpose of
acquiring large and profitable project. A new sales team is in place to
bring more revenue yielding opportunities.
Delivery
The Delivery team has been strengthened further and it has started
showing immediate results in the form of positive feedback from
customers.
Awards
During the Year under review the Company won MTM Corporate Star Awards
2014 under the category for "Best Training Programme for
Employee/Associates" for well-planned travel process.
The award criteria includes the planning, the effectiveness, the
knowledge and efficiency with which travel activities are organised by
corporate companies.
These premium awards are presented by MICE Travel Mart, India''s leading
MICE Mart organised by Optimice Events Pvt Ltd. The awards recognise
Corporate excellence in the field of Meetings, Incentives, Training and
Business Travel. The awards are decided by a Jury comprising renowned
personalities from the travel and incentive sector as well as eminent
personalities from the judiciary and civil services.
QUALITY INITIATIVES:
Sustained commitment to highest levels of quality and robust
information security practices helped the Company attain significant
milestones during the year.
The Company was assessed for Development Divisions covering Software
Development and Maintenance Projects at the maturity Level 3 for
CMMI-DEV® (Development) version 1.3.
The Company successfully achieved the annual ISO certification for ISO
9001:2008 (Quality Management) and is in the process for implementing
Security Management Standard ISO 27001:2013.
SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Exemption from attaching the Balance Sheets, etc. of the Subsidiary
Companies with the Balance Sheet of the Company
As per Section 212 of the Companies Act, 1956 we are required to attach
the Balance Sheet, Statement of Profit and Loss, and other documents of
our Subsidiaries. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs ("MCA") has vide
its circular no. 02/2011 dated 8th February, 2011, granted a general
exemption under Section 212(8) of the Companies Act from attaching
copies of the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Accounts, Directors''
Report and Auditors'' Report of its subsidiary companies with the
Balance Sheet of the Company, subject to fulfillment of certain
conditions. In terms of the said circular, copies of the Balance Sheet,
Profit and Loss Account, Report of the Board of Directors and the
Report of the Auditors of the Subsidiary Companies have not been
attached to the Balance Sheet of the Company. The Company has presented
Consolidated Financial Statements comprising Trigyn Technologies
Limited and its subsidiaries duly audited by the Statutory Auditors of
the Company. The Consolidated Financial Statements prepared by the
Company are in compliance with the Accounting Standard AS-21 as
prescribed by the Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2006 and the
Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges. The Annual Accounts and
related documents of all the Subsidiary Companies shall be made
available for inspection to the shareholders of the Company and its
subsidiaries at the Registered Office of the Company from Monday to
Friday during the working hours. The Company will also make available
physical copies of such documents upon request by any Member of the
Company or its subsidiaries interested in obtaining the same and the
same would also be made available on the website of the Company. A
statement under Section 212 (8) is annexed to this report as Annexure
II.
PUBLIC DEPOSITS
Your Company has not accepted any deposit within the meaning of Section
58A and 58AA of the Companies Act, 1956 during the year ended on March
31, 2014 and doesn''t have any outstanding public deposits.
DIRECTORS
During the year Dr. C. Rao Kasarabada, Mr. C. V. Rao, Mr. Vivek
Kulkarni and Mr. Maulik Shah resigned with effect from November 1,
2013, February 6, 2014, July 30, 2013 and July 26, 2013 respectively
owing to personal commitments. Mr. A. R. Ansari and Mr. Mohan
Narayanan joined the Company as Independent Directors with effect from
July 27, 2013. The Company had, pursuant to the provisions of clause
49 of the Listing Agreements entered into with Stock Exchanges,
appointed Mr. Vivek Khare, Mr. Mohan Narayanan, Dr. B. R. Patil, Mr.
Chi. V. V. Prasad and Mr. A. R. Ansari as Independent Directors of the
Company. As per section 149(4) of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act), which
came into effect from April 1, 2014, every listed public company is
required to have at least one-third of the total number of directors as
Independent Directors.
The Company has received declarations from the said Independent
Directors of the Company confirming that they meet the criteria of
independence as prescribed both under sub-section (6) of Section 149 of
the Companies Act, 2013 and under the said Clause 49. In accordance
with the provisions of Section 149(4) and proviso to Section 152(5) of
the Companies Act, 2013, these Directors are being appointed as
Independent Directors to hold office as per their tenure of appointment
mentioned in the Notice of the forthcoming AGM of the Company.
In accordance with the requirements of the Act and the Articles of
Association of the Company, Dr. Rajamohan Rao,Director, retires by
rotation and being eligible has offered himself for re-appointment.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
In terms of and pursuant to Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act,
1956, in relation to the Annual Statement of Accounts for the Financial
Year 2013-2014, your Directors state and confirm that:
1. in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable
accounting standards have been followed along with proper explanation
relating to material departures;
2. your Directors have 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 of
the Company for the financial year;
3. 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 as amended, for safeguarding the
assets of the company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other
irregularities; and
4. your directors have prepared the annual accounts on a "going
concern" basis;
QUALITY INITIATIVES:
Sustained commitment to highest levels of quality and robust
information security practices helped the Company attain significant
milestones during the year.
The Company was assessed for Development Divisions covering Software
Development and Maintenance Projects at the maturity Level 3 for
CMMI-DEV? (Development)version 1.3. The Company successfully achieved
the annual ISO certification for ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management) and
is in the process for implementing Security Management Standard ISO
27001:2013.
EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (ESOP):
Details required to be provided under the Securities and Exchange Board
of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase
Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 (SEBI Guidelines) are set out in Annexure I to
this report.
The Company has obtained a certificate from auditors certifying that
the said ESOP scheme have been implemented in accordance with the SEBI
Guidelines and the resolutions passed by the members in this regard.
The Certificate will be placed at the AGM for inspection by the members
which is also attached to this report.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS REPORT:
As per clause 49 of the Listing Agreements entered into with the Stock
Exchanges, Corporate Governance Report with auditors'' certificate
thereon and Management Discussion and Analysis are attached and form
part of this report. AUDITORS
a) Auditors Report:
The Auditors Report form part of the Annual Report and your Directors
are pleased to inform that there are no qualifications in the Auditors
Report for the year ended March 31, 2014.
b) Appointment of Auditors
M/s. Ford, Rhodes, Parks & Co., Chartered Accountants, who are the
statutory auditors of the Company,hold office till the conclusion of
the forthcoming AGM and are eligible for re-appointment. Pursuant to
the provisions of section 139 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules
framed thereunder, it is proposed to appointM/s. Ford, Rhodes, Parks &
Co.as statutory auditors of the Company from the conclusion of the
forthcoming AGM till the conclusion of the 31st AGM to be held in the
year 2017, subject to ratification of their appointment at every AGM.
A resolution seeking your approval for the appointment of the said
auditors has been included in the Notice convening the Annual General
Meeting.
EMPLOYEES:
None of the employees of the Company were drawing remuneration in
excess of the limits specified under section 217(2A) of the Companies
Act, 1956 and the Rules made there under.
WHISTLE BLOWER POLICY:
The Company has in terms of Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement and
Section 177(9) of the Companies Act, 2013 established a vigil mechanism
for directors and employees to report concerns about unethical
behaviour, actual or suspected fraud or violiation of Company''s code of
conduct or ethics policy.
The policy can be viewed at:
http://www.trigyn.com/AboutTrigyn/WhistleBlowerPolicy.aspx.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION. FOREIGN EXCHANGE
EARNINGS AND OUTGO:
A. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Your company consumes electricity only for the operation of its
computer and administration of its offices. Though the consumption of
electricity is negligible as compare to the total turnover of the
company, your company always endeavors to take effective steps to
reduce the consumption of electricity.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
a) Specific areas in which R&D carried out by the Company N.A.
b) Benefits derived as a result of the above R&D N.A.
c) Future plan of action N.A.
d) Expenditure on R&D N.A.
B. TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, ADAPTATION AND INNOVATION
The Company has not absorbed any new technology during the year under
review.
The statement pursuant to Sec 217(1)(e) of the Companies Act, 1956 read
with the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Reports of Board
of Directors) Rules, 1988 is hereunder:
a) Efforts made towards technology absorption,
adaptation and innovation N.A.
b) Benefits derived as a result of the above efforts N.A.
c) Information regarding Imported Technology N.A.
C. FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING/OUTGO:
The foreign exchange earnings of your Company during the year were Rs.
1,578,241,459/- (Previous year Rs. 387,247,386/-) while the outgoings
were Rs. 1,206,343,728/- (Previous year Rs 74,572,177/-)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the
contribution made by employee at all level to the continued growth and
prosperity of your Company.
Your Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation for the
support provided by the Company''s Bankers, Customers, Vendors, SEEPZ,
regulatory and government authorities in India and abroad.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors of
Trigyn Technologies Limited
R. Ganapathi
Chairman and Executive Director
Place: Mumbai
Date:May 23, 2014
DECLARATION REGARDING COMPLIANCE BY BOARD MEMBERS AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT
PERSONNEL WITH THE COMPANY''S CODE OF CONDUCT
This is to confirm that the Company has adopted a Code of Conduct for
its Directors including Executive Directors, Nonexecutive Directors and
Senior Management Officials, which is available on the Company''s web
site.
I confirm that the Company has in respect of the financial year ended
March 31, 2014, received from the Senior Management Officials of the
Company and the Members of the Board, a declaration of compliance with
the Code of Conduct as applicable to them.
For the purpose of this declaration, Senior Management Officials means
personnel on the key management positions in the Company as on March
31, 2014.
For Trigyn Technologies Limited
R. Ganapathi
Chairman and Executive Director
Mumbai
Date: May 23, 2014
Mar 31, 2013
The Directors have pleasure in presenting the Twenty Seventh Annual
Report together with the audited accounts of the company for the year
ended 31st March, 2013.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Results (Standalone) for the period ended March 31, 2013 are
given below:
(Rs.In lakhs)
CONSOLIDATED CONSOLIDATED
ITEM Year ended Year ended Year ended Year ended
March 31,
2013 March 31,
2012 March 31,
2013 March 31,
2012
Income
Income from
operations 3929.05 3008.46 34,842.45 27,393.56
Other Income 283.57 487.72 288.50 522.38
Total Revenue 4212.62 3496.18 35130.95 27915.95
Less: Expenditure
Operating and
Other Expenses 3552.55 2733.14 32660.53 25854.54
Depreciation 77.40 93.72 81.80 100.00
Profit before
Tax 582.67 669.32 2388.62 1961.40
Tax Expenses 146.64 147.77 823.25 482.76
Profit / (Loss)
after Tax 436.03 521.55 1565.37 1478.65
Add :
Exceptional
Items 0.00 0.00 0.00 (404.86)
Net Profit 436.031 521.551 1565.371 1073.79
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
During the year under review on a consolidated basis your company
achieved revenue of Rs. 35,130.95 lakhs a growth of 25.8% in revenue as
compared to the previous year, while on standalone basis it grew by
20.50%. Your Company posted a net profit of Rs. 436.03 lakhs on a
standalone basis and Rs. 1,565.37 lakhs on a consolidated basis.
For the year ended March 31, 2013 on consolidated basis EPS stood at Rs.
5.33/-.
Your Company has improved its'' performance over previous year and
foresees a better outlook.
TRANSFER TO RESERVES & DIVIDEND
In view of the carried forward losses the Board of Directors of your
Company do not recommend any dividend for the year under review.
The Company has not made any transfer to the reserves during the year
under review.
SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Exemption from attaching the Balance Sheets, etc. of the Subsidiary
Companies with the Balance Sheet of the Company
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs ("MCA") has vide its circular no.
02/2011 dated 8th February, 2011, granted a general exemption under
Section 212(8) of the Companies Act from attaching copies of the
Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Accounts, Directors'' Report and
Auditors'' Report of its subsidiary companies with the Balance Sheet of
the Company, subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. In terms of
the said circular, copies of the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss
Account, Report of the Board of Directors and the Report of the
Auditors of the Subsidiary Companies have not been attached to the
Balance Sheet of the Company. The Company has presented Consolidated
Financial Statements comprising Trigyn Technologies Limited and its
subsidiaries duly audited by the Statutory Auditors of the Company. The
Consolidated Financial Statements prepared by the Company are in
compliance with the Accounting Standard AS-21 as prescribed by the
Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2006 and the Listing Agreement
with the Stock Exchanges. The Annual Accounts and related documents of
all the Subsidiary Companies shall be made available for inspection to
the shareholders of the Company and its subsidiaries at the Registered
Office of the Company from Monday to Friday during the working hours.
The Company will also make available physical copies of such documents
upon request by any Member of the Company or its subsidiaries
interested in obtaining the same and the same would also be made
available on the website of the Company. A statement under Section 212
(8) is annexed to this report as Annexure II.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS:
The Management Discussion & Analysis Report as annexed hereto and form
an integral part of this report.
PUBLIC DEPOSITS
Your Company has not accepted any deposit within the meaning of Section
58A and 58AA of the Companies Act, 1956 during the year ended on March
31, 2013 and doesn''t have any outstanding public deposits.
DIRECTORS
During the year Mr. Maulik Shah and Mr. Vivek Kulkarni resigned from
directorship owing to personal commitments. Mr. A. R. Ansari and Mr.
Mohan Narayanan were appointed as Additional Directors in the Board
Meeting held on August 14, 2013.
The Company has received notice u/s 257 of the Companies Act, 1956 from
a member proposing candidature of Mr. A. R. Ansari and Mr. Mohan
Narayanan for the office of Independent Director.
Mr. R. Ganapathi was appointed as Chairman and Executive Director of
the Company with effect from April 1, 2012 for a period of three years.
His appointment was duly approved by the members vide special
resolution in the 26th Annual General Meeting held on September 28,
2012. There is no change in his remuneration, however for better
clarity his detailed break-up of salary and appointment is placed for
approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
Ms. Bhavana Rao was appointed as Executive Director with effect from
April 1, 2012 for a period of three years. Her appointment was duly
approved by the remuneration committee and the board of directors of
the Company. There is no change in her remuneration, however for better
clarity her detailed break-up of salary and appointment is placed for
approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
Dr. Raja Mohan Rao, Shri Chi V. V. Prasad and Dr. B. R. Patil,
directors of the Company who retire by rotation under Article 124 of
the Article of Association of the Company and pursuant to Sec 255 of
the Companies Act, 1956, being eligible for re-appointment, offer
themselves for re-appointment.
A brief profile of all the above mentioned Directors being appointed
are attached to the Notice for the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
In terms of and pursuant to Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act,
1956, in relation to the Annual Statement of Accounts for the Financial
Year 2012-2013, your Directors state and confirm that:
1. in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable
accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanation
relating to material departures;
2. your 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 of
the Company for that year;
3. your Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 as amended, for safeguarding the
assets of the company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other
irregularities; and
4. your directors have prepared the annual accounts on a "going
concern" basis:
EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (ESOP):
Details required to be provided under the Securities and Exchange Board
of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase
Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 are set out in Annexure I to this report.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:
A Report on Corporate Governance for the year 2012-13 is given
separately in the Annual Report.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
With a noble cause to help the deserving people in the society, during
the year, your Company has donated Rs. 35,000/- to the charitable
institutions engaged in the activity of medical Centre, upliftment of
the down trodden and assisting the old age people.
The donation amount is within the limits prescribed under Section
293(1) (e) of the Companies Act, 1956.
AUDITORS
a) Auditors Report:
The Auditors Report form part of the Annual Report and your Directors
are pleased to inform that there are no qualifications in the Auditors
Report for the year ended March 31, 2013.
b) Appointment of Auditors
M/s. Ford, Rhodes, Parks & Co., Chartered Accountants, the existing
Auditors retire at the ensuing Annual General Meeting of your Company.
They have expressed their willingness to be re-appointed as Auditors of
the Company and are qualified to be appointed under Section 224(1 B) of
the Companies Act, 1956. It is therefore proposed to re- appoint M/s.
Ford, Rhodes, Parks & Co., Chartered Accountants as statutory auditors
of the Company. A resolution seeking your approval for the appointment
of the said auditors has been included in the Notice convening the
Annual General Meeting.
EMPLOYEES:
The details of employees whose Information is required to be given
under the provisions of section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act, 1956 and
the rules framed there under are set out in Annexure III to the
Directors'' Report.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, FOREIGN EXCHANGE
EARNINGS AND OUTGO:
A. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Your company consumes electricity only for the operation of its
computer and administration of its offices. Though the consumption of
electricity is negligible as compare to the total turnover of the
company, your company always endeavors to take effective steps to
reduce the consumption of electricity. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
a) Specific areas in which R&D carried out by the
Company N.A.
b) Benefits derived as a result of the above R&D N.A.
c) Future plan of action N.A.
d) Expenditure on R & D NA
B. TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, ADAPTATION AND INNOVATION
The Company has not absorbed any new technology during the year under
review. The statement pursuant to Sec 217(1)(e) of the Companies Act,
1956 read with the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Reports
of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 is hereunder:
a) Efforts made towards technology absorption, adaptation and
innovation N.A.
b) Benefits derived as a result of the above efforts N.A.
c) Information regarding Imported Technology N.A.
C. FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING/OUTGO:
The foreign exchange earnings of your Company during the year were Rs.
387,818,092/- (Previous year Rs. 285, 473,559/) while the outgoings were
Rs. 74,572,177/- (Previous year Rs. 63,403,583/-).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the
contribution made by employee at all level to the continued growth and
prosperity of your Company.
Your Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation for the
support provided by the Company''s Bankers, Customers, Vendors, SEEPZ,
regulatory and government authorities in India and abroad.
For Trigyn Technologies Limited
R. Ganapathi Chairman and
Executive Director
Place: Mumbai
Date August 14,2013
Mar 31, 2012
The Directors have pleasure in presenting the Twenty Sixth Annual
Report together with the audited accounts of the company for the year
ended 31st March, 2012.
FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Results for the period ended March 31, 2012 are given below:
(Rs. In lakhs)
Item Year ended Year ended
March 31, March 31,
2012 2011
Income
Income from operations 3008.45 2746.92
Other Income 487.72 184.11
Total Revenue 3496.17 2931.03
Expenditure
Operating and Other Expenses 2733.14 2297.29
Depreciation 93.72 89.73
Profit before Tax 669.31 544.00
Tax Expenses 147.77 0.00
Profit after Tax 521.54 544.00
Add : Exceptional Items 0.00 0.00
Net Profit 521.541 544.00
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
During the year under review the income from operations was Rs. 3008.45
lakhs higher by about 9.52% against Rs. 2746.92 lakhs in previous
year. Deducting there from the expenditure incurred and Rs. 93.72 lakhs
for Depreciation, the Net Profit for the year stood at Rs. 521.54
lakhs.The net gain on foreign currency transactions and translations
accounted for Rs. 357.82Lakhs. The expenditure on account of Taxation
amounted to Rs. 147.77 Lakhs.
Your Company has improved performance in the current fiscal and
foresees a better future outlook.
TRANSFER TO RESERVES & DIVIDEND
In view of the carried forward losses the Board of Directors of your
Company do not recommend any dividend for the year under review.
The Company has not made any transfer to the reserves during the year
under review.
SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Exemption from attaching the Balance Sheets, etc. of the Subsidiary
Companies with the Balance Sheet of the Company
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs ("MCA") has vide its circular no.
02/2011 dated 8th February, 2011, granted a general exemption under
Section 212(8) of the Companies Act from attaching copies of the
Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Accounts, Directors' Report and
Auditors' Report of its subsidiary companies with the Balance Sheet
of the Company, subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. In terms
of the said circular, copies of the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss
Account, Report of the Board of Directors and the Report of the
Auditors of the Subsidiary Companies have not been attached to the
Balance Sheet of the Company. The Company has presented Consolidated
Financial Statements comprising Trigyn Technologies Limited and its
subsidiaries duly audited by the Statutory Auditors of the Company. The
Consolidated Financial Statements prepared by the Company are in
compliance with the Accounting Standard AS-21 as prescribed by the
Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2006 and the Listing Agreement
with the Stock Exchanges. The Annual Accounts and related documents of
all the Subsidiary Companies shall be made available for inspection to
the shareholders of the Company and its subsidiaries at the Registered
Office of the Company from Monday to Friday during the working hours.
The Company will also make available physical copies of such documents
upon request by any Member of the Company or its subsidiaries
interested in obtaining the same and the same would also be made
available on the website of the Company. A statement under Section 212
(8) is annexed to this report as Annexure II.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS:
The Management Discussion & Analysis Report as annexed hereto and form
an integral part of this report.
PUBLIC DEPOSITS
Your Company has not accepted any deposit within the meaning of Section
58A and 58AA of the Companies Act, 1956 during the years ended on March
31, 2012 and doesn't have any outstanding public deposits.
DIRECTORS
Mr. R. Ganapathi was appointed as Executive Directors of the Company
with effect from April 1, 2012 for a period of Three years subject to
the approval at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. Ms. P. Bhavana Rao
was appointed as Executive Director for a period of three years with
effect from April 1, 2012. Her remuneration being within the limits of
Section 198 read with Sections 309, 310 and 269 and Schedule XIII part
B the approval of Remuneration Committee and Board of Directors of the
Company were duly accorded.
Mr. Maulik Shah, Mr. Vivek Khare and Mr. C.V. Rao directors of the
Company who retire by rotation under Article 124 of the Article of
Association of the Company, being eligible for re-appointment, offer
themselves for re-appointment. A brief resume of the above mentioned
Directors being appointed are attached to the Notice for the ensuing
Annual General Meeting.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
In terms of and pursuant to Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act,
1956, in relation to the Annual Statement of Accounts for the Financial
Year 2011-2012, your Directors state and confirm that:
1. in the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable
accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanation
relating to material departures;
2. your 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 of
the Company for that year;
3. your Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 as amended, for safeguarding the
assets of the company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other
irregularities; and
4. your directors have prepared the annual accounts on a "going
concern" basis;
EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (ESOP):
Details required to be provided under the Securities and Exchange Board
of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase
Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 are set out in Annexure I to this report.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:
A Report on Corporate Governance for the year 2011-12 is given
separately in the Annual Report.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
With a noble cause to help the deserving people in the society, during
the year, your Company has donated Rs.560,000/- to the charitable
institutions engaged in the activity of medical Centre, upliftment of
the down trodden and assisting the old age people.
The donation amount is within the limits prescribed under Section
293(1) (e) of the Companies Act, 1956.
AUDITORS
a) Auditors Report:
The Auditors Report form part of the Annual Report and your Directors
are pleased to inform that there are no qualifications in the Auditors
Report for the year ended March 31, 2012.
b) Appointment of Auditors
M/s. Price Waterhouse, Chartered Accountants, the existing Auditors
retire at the ensuing Annual General Meeting of your Company. They have
expressed their unwillingness in writing to be re-appointed as Auditors
of the Company. It is therefore proposed to appoint M/s. Ford, Rhodes,
Parks & Co., Chartered Accountants as statutory auditors of the
Company. M/s. Ford, Rhodes, Parks & Co., Chartered Accountants has
shown their willingness to be appointed as statutory auditors of your
Company are qualified to be appointed under Section 224(1B) of the
Companies Act, 1956. A resolution seeking your approval for the
appointment of the said auditors has been included in the Notice
convening the Annual General Meeting.
EMPLOYEES:
The Company has no employee whose Information is required to be given
under the provisions of section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act, 1956 and
the rules framed there under.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, FOREIGN EXCHANGE
EARNINGS AND OUTGO:
A. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Your company consumes electricity only for the operation of its
computer and administration of its offices. Though the consumption of
electricity is negligible as compare to the total turnover of the
company, your company always endeavors to take effective steps to
reduce the consumption of electricity.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
a) Specific areas in which R&D carried out by the Company N.A.
b) Benefits derived as a result of the above R&D N.A.
c) Future plan of action N.A.
d) Expenditure on R&D N.A.
B. TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, ADAPTATION AND INNOVATION
The Company has not absorbed any new technology during the year under
review. The statement pursuant to Sec 217(1)(e) of the Companies Act,
1956 read with the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Reports
of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 is hereunder
a) Efforts made towards technology absorption, adaptation and
innovation N.A.
b) Benefits derived as a result of the above efforts N.A.
c) Information regarding Imported Technology N.A.
C. FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING/OUTGO:
The foreign exchange earnings of your Company during the year were Rs.
285,473,559/-(Previous year Rs. 272, 349,741/-) while the outgoings
were Rs. 62,706,382/- (Previous year Rs.39, 360,422/-).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the
contribution made by employee at all level to the continued growth and
prosperity of your Company.
Your Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation for the
support provided by the Company's Bankers, Customers, Vendors, SEEPZ,
regulatory and government authorities in India and abroad.
For Trigyn Technologies Limited
Sd/-
R. Ganapathi
Chairman and Executive Director
Place: Mumbai
Date August 27, 2012
Mar 31, 2010
The Directors present the Twenty Fourth Annual Report and audited
statement of accounts of Trigyn Technologies Limited for the year ended
March 31, 2010.
FINANCIAL RESULTS:
(Rs. In Lakhs)
Item Year ended Year ended
March 31, 2010 March 31, 2009
Income from operations 2528.13 2105.32
Other Income 177.89 354.41
Depreciation 79.86 55.17
Other Expenditure including
Personnel costs 1946.61 1395.07
Profit before Tax 679.55 980.52
Fringe benefit tax 0.80 8.32
Profit after tax 678.75 971.94
Add : Exceptional Items 409.65 60.92
Net Profit 1088.40 1032.85
Add: Balance Brought Forward (61025.91) (62058.77)
Balance To Be Carried Forward (59937.52) (61025.91)
OPERATIONS :
During the year under review, the Company achieved a net turnover of
Rs.2528.13 lakhs as against Rs.2105.32 lakhs in the previous year.
Deducting there from the expenditure incurred and Rs.79.86 lakhs for
Depreciation, the operations of your Company resulted in to a profit of
Rs.678.75 lakhs. Adding thereto Rs.409.65 lakhs towards exceptional
items, your company has earned net profit of Rs.1088.40 lakhs.
In terms of the SEBI (ICDR) Regulations, your Company issued and
allotted 41,40,000 warrants to United Telecoms Limited (UTL), the
Promoters, on preferential basis, eligible for conversion within 18
months from the date of allotment i.e. December 4, 2009, in to equal
number of equity shares of Rs.10/- each at a premium of Rs.8.81 per
share.
The first tranche of warrants was exercised by UTL by conversion of
13,15,000 warrants on March 31, 2010. The amount mobilized by
preferential issue of shares was utilized for meeting working capital
needs.
Your Directors are confident that in view of the aforesaid financial
commitment by the Promoters, your Company will continue to be a debt
free Company with an improved performance in the current fiscal and
foresee a better future outlook.
CHANGES IN SHARE CAPITAL:
The Company has issued and allotted 2,03,250 equity shares to the
employees under ESOP 2000 and 13,15,000 equity shares to UTL on
conversion of warrants. Consequent to allotment of the equity shares,
as stated above, the paid up share capital of your Company has
increased to Rs.26,52,37,360/-.
DIVIDEND:
In view of carried forward losses, your Board of Directors do not
recommend any dividend.
SUBSIDIARIES:
As required under section 212 of the Companies Act, 1956, the financial
statements of the subsidiaries, other than the one having implications
of liquidation, are enclosed alongwith the Annual Report. The
appropriate provision for losses of these subsidiaries has been made by
the Company, wherever required.
As a part of ongoing restructuring of Trigyn Group by closing the
dormant subsidiaries, Applisoft Inc., USA and eCaptial Solutions
(Mauritius) Ltd. were voluntary wound up as per the certificate issued
by the respective regulatory authorities.
Particulars of loans /advances and investment in its own shares by
listed companies, their subsidiaries, associates etc. required to be
disclosed in the annual report of the Company pursuant to clause 32 of
the Listing Agreement and loans and advances in the nature of loans to
subsidiaries are given in the statement of accounts forming part of the
Annual Report.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS:
The Management Discussion & Analysis Report as annexed hereto and forms
an integral part of this report.
FIXED DEPOSITS:
The Company has not accepted any fixed deposits and as such, no
principal or interest amount is outstanding as on the Balance Sheet
date.
CERTIFICATIONS
Your Company has been accredited with CMMI VER 1.2 Level 3
certification, implying strong management practices and processes in
place aiding in planning and execution of projects.
Your Company also has an accreditation from Microsoft Corporation as
the "Microsoft Gold Certified Partner" in the area of Custom
Development Solution and Data Management Solution, recognizing the
highest level of technological excellence, market place impact and
satisfaction of customers through Microsoft products and services".
Your Company has also entered into a Channel Partner Agreement with EMC
Corporation, USA to provide services related to Content Management EMC
Software. This Partnership will enable your Company to provide product
implementation, customization, transition and building solution around
the products for various verticals.
During the year your Company has successfully renewed and certified
with ISO 9001:2008.
DIRECTORS:
Mr. Vivek Khare was appointed as Additional Director of the Company
w.e.f. October 6, 2009 subject to the approval of the members at the
ensuing Annual General meeting.
Mr. Richard Raja resigned from the Directorship of the Company w.e.f.
October 6, 2009 and the Board places on record itÃs appreciation for
the contribution made by him during his tenure.
In accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and the
Articles of Association of the Company, Mr. C. V. Rao, Dr. C. Rao
Kasarabada and Mr. Vivek Kulkarni retires by rotation and being
eligible offers themselves for the re-appointment.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT:
Pursuant to section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act 1956, the Directors
confirm that :
i) The annual accounts have been prepared as per the applicable
accounting standards, along with proper explanations relating to
material departures.
ii) Appropriate accounting policies have been selected and applied
consistently and judgements and estimates have been made that are
reasonable and prudent, so as to give a true and fair view of the state
of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2010 and of the profit & loss
account for the year ended March 31, 2009.
iii) Proper and sufficient care has been taken for the maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the
Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding the assets of the Company and
detecting fraud and other irregularities.
iv) The annual accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis.
EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLAN (ESOP):
Details required to be provided under the Securities and Exchange Board
of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase
Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 are set out in Annexure I to this Report. In
the interest of the employees the ESOP 2000, has been extended up to
May 6, 2020.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:
A Report on Corporate Governance for the year 2009-10 is given
separately in the Annual Report.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
With a noble cause to help the deserving people in the society, your
Company has donated Rs.50,000/- to Dwarkamai Charitable Trust, Shirdi
engaged in the activity of upliftment of the down trodden and assisting
the old age people. The donation amount , is within the limits
prescribed under Section 293(1)(e) of the Companies Act, 1956.
AUDITORS QUALIFICATIONS :
The AuditorÃs remarks in the AuditorÃs Report are self explanatory. The
management is taking appropriate measures to rectify the same.
EXCEPTIONAL ITEMS
In consultation with the Auditors, provisions for doubtful debt no
longer required of Rs. 5.32 crores and Rs. 1.23 crores towards
provisions for doubtful loans was written back netting off to Rs. 4.09
crores for the year ended March 31, 2010.
AUDITORS:
M/s Price Waterhouse, Chartered Accountants, have confirmed their
willingness and eligibility for their re-appointment as Statutory
Auditors for the financial year 2010-11 subject to approval of members
at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION:
In view of the nature of activities that are being carried on by your
Company, rule 2A and 2B of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in
the Report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, concerning conservation
of energy and technology absorption, respectively, are not applicable
to your company. Your company is, however, making all efforts for
reducing energy consumption at office facilities by installing computer
systems designed for low power consumption.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUTGO:
The foreign exchange earnings of your Company during the year were
Rs.25,28,12,830/- (Previous year Rs. 21,05,31,511/-) while the
outgoings were Rs.90,97,109/- (Previous year Rs.93,11,510/-).
INFORMATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 217 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956:
Information to be provided under section 217(2A) of the Companies Act,
read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules 1975 as
amended from time to time forms a part of this report. However as per
the provisions of section 219 (1)(b)(iv) of the Act, the report and
accounts are being sent to all the members excluding the statement
containing the particulars of employees to be provided under section
217(2A) of the Act. Any member interested in obtaining such particulars
may write to the Company Secretary at the Registered Office of the
Company for a copy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Your Directors gratefully acknowledge the contributions made by the
employees towards the success of your Company.
Your Directors are also thankful for the co-operation and assistance
received from its shareholders, customers, vendors, bankers, SEEPZ,
regulatory and Government authorities in India and abroad.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
R. Ganapathi
Chairman and Executive Director
Mumbai,
Date: August 13, 2010
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