To the Members,
Your Directors have pleasure in presenting 32nd Annual Report together with the Audited
Statement of accounts for the year ended 31st March, 2025.
1. FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Amount In Rs.)
Particulars |
STANDALONE |
Financial Results |
For the year ended 31st March 2025 |
For the year ended 31st March 2024 |
Sales & Other Income |
5,84,20,208 |
5,15,82,451 |
Profit/(Loss) before interest, depreciation & Taxation |
55,02,511 |
(46,81,759) |
Less: Interest |
(24,22,371) |
(28,00,791) |
Less: Depreciation |
(6,18,677) |
(8,90,328) |
Profit/(Loss) before Tax |
24,61,463 |
(83,72,878) |
Less: Current Tax |
- |
- |
Less: Deferred Tax |
- |
8,81,284 |
Profit/Loss after Tax but before Extra-Ordinary Items |
24,61,463 |
(92,54,163) |
Add/(Less) Other Items |
(40,00,000) |
- |
Profit /Loss after Tax and Extra Ordinary Items |
(15,38,538) |
(92,54,163) |
2. COMPANY'S PERFORMANCE
During the period under review, the company has registered revenue of Rs. 5,34,72,145/-
as against previous year's revenue of Rs. 4,98,87,158/-. Your company posted Loss after
Taxes of Rs (15,38,538)/- as against previous year loss of Rs. (92,54,163)/-. Your
Directors are continuously looking forward for future growth avenues and are of the
considered view that veneer business will be up significantly in the current year and the
veneer prices will be positive resulting in higher margins and much better profitability
in the FY 25-26.
3. DIVIDEND
In view of the losses, your directors have not recommended any dividend for the
financial year 2024-2025.
4. TRANSFER TO RESERVES:
No amount has been transferred to reserves and surplus during the year.
5. DETAILS OF SUBSIDIARY/JOINT VENTURES/ASSOCIATE COMPANIES
The Company does not have any subsidiary, joint venture and associated Companies.
6. MATERIAL CHANGE IN NATURE OF BUSINESS
No material change and commitment have occurred from the date of close to the financial
year till the date of this report, which affect the financial position of the companies.
7. RISK MANAGEMENT
A detailed review of business risk and the corporation's plan to mitigate them is
presented to the Board. The Corporation has been taking steps to mitigate foreseeable
business risks. Business risk evaluation and management is an ongoing and continuous
process within the Company and regularly updated to the Board.
8. INTERNAL CONTROL SYSYTEM AND ADEQUACY
The Company has proper and adequate system of internal control which is commensurate
with the size and the nature of business, to ensure that all assets are safeguarded and
protected against loss from unauthorized use or disposal and commercial transaction are
authorized, recorded and reported correctly. The internal control is supplemented by an
extensive program of internal and external audits. The company accords greatest importance
to the security of its information assets and has the requisite security controls and
checks. Adequate storage and back-up system is maintained to ensure security and
availability of data at all times.
9. DIRECTORS AND KEY MANGERAL PERSONNEL
As per the Companies Act 2013, Mr. Vivek Agarwala (DIN- 00595954) Director of the
company will retire by rotation at the ensuring AGM and being eligible, has offered
himself for reappointment.
Mr. Vinay Dalmia (DIN- 01219851), Mr. Vivek Agarwala (DIN- 00595954), Mrs. Smita
Agarwal (DIN- 00200242), Mr. Ravikesh Kumar Sinha (DIN-06573624) and Mr. Hari Prakash
Gupta (DIN:00173929) are the Directors of the Company.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 203 of the Act, the Key Managerial Personnel of
the Company are: Mr. Vinay Dalmia Whole time Director, Ms. Vijaya Kumari, Chief Financial
Officer and Ms. Bina Padia (upto 28.05.2025), Company Secretary of the Company.
Mr. Ravikesh Kumar Sinha (DIN-06573624) has been appointed as the Additional Director
of the company as on 13.03.2025. Mr. Sumit Uthra (DIN-00389984) had tendered his
resignation as a Director of the company on 06.12.2024.
10. PUBLIC DEPOSITS
During the year under review, your company has not accepted any deposit within the
meaning of provision of Chapter V- Acceptance of Deposits by Companies of the Companies
Act 2013 read with the Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 2014.
11. WHISTLE BLOWER POLICY /VIGIL MECHANISM
The Company has a Whistle Blower Policy, which enables its directors and employees to
report their concerns about unethical behavior, actual or suspected fraud or violation of
the Company's Code of Conduct or ethics policy and provides safeguards against
victimization of director(s)/employee(s), who avail of the mechanism.
12. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
No CSR policy has been adopted by the company in the current financial year as the same
is not applicable to the company.
13. HUMAN RESOURCES
Your Company consider its Human Resources as the key to achieve its objectives. Keeping
this in view, your Company takes utmost care to attract and retain quality employees. The
employees are sufficient empowered and such work environment propels them to achieve
higher level of performance. The unflinching commitment of the employees is the driving
force behind the Company's vision. Your Company appreciates the spirit of its dedicated
employees.
14. DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
a) in the preparation of the annual accounts for the year ended March 31, 2025, the
applicable accounting standards read with requirements set out under Schedule III to the
Act, have been followed and there are no material departures from the same.
b) the 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 as at March 31, 2025 and of the loss of
the Company for the year ended on that date;
c) the Directors 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) the Directors have prepared the annual accounts on a 'going concern' basis;
e) that proper internal financial controls were followed by the Company and that such
internal financial controls are adequate and were operating effectively; and
f) the Directors have devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions
of all applicable laws and that such systems are adequate and operating effectively.
15. PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
Since, the company does not fall under the prescribed limit of the aforesaid provisions
under Section 197(12) of the Act read with Rule 5 of the Companies (Appointment and
Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014. Therefore, this requirement is not
applicable to the Company.
16. TRANSFER OF UNCLAIMED DIVIDEND TO INVESTOR EDUCATION AND PROTECTION FUND:
Since there was no unpaid/ unclaimed Dividend declared and paid last year, the
provisions of Section 125 of the Companies Act, 2013 do not apply.
17. NO OF BOARD MEETINGS
8 (eight) meetings of the Board of Directors were held during the year.
18. AUDIT COMMITTEE
The Audit Committee Comprises of Mr. Sumit Uthra (upto 06.12.2024) and Mr. Ravikesh
Kumar Sinha-Chairman (w.e.f 13.03.2025) chairman of the Committee, Mr. Hari Prakash Gupta-
NonExecutive Independent Director (DIN-00173929) and Mrs. Smita Agarwal (DIN-00200242) as
other member.
19. NOMINATION AND REMUNERATION COMMITTEE
The Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Company identifies the persons, who
are qualified to become Directors of the Company / who may be appointed in Senior
Management in accordance with the criteria laid down and recommend to the Board their
appointment and removal. The Committee also carries out evaluation of every Director's
performance. The Committee has formulated the criteria for determining qualifications,
positive attributes, independence of the Director send recommend to the Board a Policy,
relating to the remuneration for the Directors, Key Managerial Personnel and other
employees.
20. EXTRACT OF ANNUAL RETURN
The details of the extract of the Annual Return in form MGT-9 is annexed herewith and
forms part of this report and marked as "Annexure-A"
21. COVERVATION OF ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND
OUTGO
The information on conservation of energy, technology absorption stipulated under
Section 134(3)(m) of the Act read with Rule 8 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, is
annexed herewith as Annexure 'B' to the Board's Report. There is no Foreign
exchange earnings and foreign Exchange Outgo during the year
22. AUDITORS:
Statutory Auditors:
M/s P. K. AJITSARIA & CO, Chartered Accountants, (ICAI Firm Registration No
317046E), Statutory Auditors of the Company, has been appointed as statutory auditors of
the company at the Annual General Meeting held on 16.09.2024 for a period of five years up
to the conclusion of the 36th Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in the year
2029.
The Company has received a letter from P.K Ajitsaria, & Co., Chartered Accountants
(Firm Registration No. 317046E, Statutory Auditor of the Company on 24.05.2025 stating
that their Peer Review Certificate is going to expire in the next few days and they are
not willing to renew the same due to their personal reason, hence they would not like to
be reappointed for the financial year 2025-26.
The Board of Directors has received the consent from C. K. Chandak & Co, Chartered
Accountants, (Firm Reg. No. 326844E), to act as statutory auditors of the company to hold
office from the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the ensuing Annual
General Meeting held in 2026.
Secretarial Auditors:
Pursuant to the provision of Section 204 of the Companies act 2013 and the companies
(Appointment and Remuneration personnel) Rules 2014, the Company has appointed Mrs. Arti
Vyas, practicing Company Secretary as its Secretarial Auditors to undertake the
Secretarial Audit for the financial year 2024-25. The Secretarial Audit Report certified
by our Secretarial Auditors, in specified form MR-3 is annexed herewith and marked as
"Annexure D".
Internal Auditor:
M/s. Heliwal & Associates, Chartered Accountants, has been appointed as the
Internal Auditor of the company.
23. PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES OR INVESTMENT UNDER SECTION 186 OF THE COMPANIES
ACT 2013:
Details of Loans, Guarantees and investments covered under the provision of section 186
of the Companies' Act 2013 are given in the Notes to the financial statements
24. DECLARATION BY INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS
The Company has received declarations from all the Independent Directors of the
company, confirming that they meet the criteria of independence as provided under section
149(6) of the Companies Act, 2013.
25. QUALIFICATION OR RESERVATION OR ADVERSE MARK IN STATUTORY AUDITOR'S REPORT
There is no such qualification or reservation or adverse remark reported by the
Statutory Auditors of the Company and Secretarial Auditor of the Company.
26. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTION
The Company has entered into transaction with the related parties during the year. The
Details of Transaction have been mentioned in Note no. 24 of the Financial
Statements.
All related party transactions that were entered into by the Company during the
financial year under review were generally on arms' length basis and in the ordinary
course of business. All related party transactions are placed before the meeting(s) of
Audit Committee for its approval.
27. PREVENTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN 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 provision of the Sexual Harassment of Woman at workplace (Prevention, Prohibition
and redressal) Act, 2013 and the Rules thereunder for prevention and Redressal of
Complaints of sexual harassment at workplace. The Company has not received any complaint
on sexual Harassment during the financial year 2024-25.
28. DISCLOSURE OF RATIO OF REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS AND KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL, ETC.
As required under Section 197(12) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rule 5(1) of the
Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014, the
Statement of Disclosure of Remuneration and such other details as prescribed therein are
given in Annexure-C, which is attached hereto and forms a part of the Directors'
Report.
29. SIGNIFICANT AND MATERIAL ORDER PASSED BY THE REGULATION
The Company has received an order from the BSE for Revocation of Suspension in trading
of equity shares of Adhata Global Ltd. (Scrip Code: 531286) w.e.f. November 07, 2024.
30. MAINTENANCE OF COST RECORDS U/S 148 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013
The Provisions of Section 148 (1) pertaining to the maintenance of Cost Records is not
applicable to our Company.
31. REPORTING OF FRAUD BY THE AUDITORS:
In terms of Section 134 (3) of the Companies Act 2013 report by the Board of Directors
is required to include the details in respect of frauds reported by auditors under
sub-section 12 of section 143 other than those which are reportable to the Central
Government. No such fraud was reported by the auditor.
32. SECRETARIAL STANDARDS:
During the year under review, Company has complied with all the applicable provisions
of secretarial standards issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
33. CERTIFICATE BY CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER:
A compliance certificate by Chief Financial Officer as required by Regulation 17(8) of
SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 is attached with
report as " Annexure-E".
34. MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS
Management Discussion & Analysis, as stipulated under the SEBI (Listing Obligations
and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 ("Listing Regulations") is
attached as "Annexure F" to this Annual Report.
35. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Your directors take this opportunity to offer thanks to government and semi government
organizations and bankers for their continued supports and valuable assistance at all
times. The Director also wish to place on record their deep sense of appreciation for the
devoted services rendered by the officers, employees and workers of the Company.
Place: Kolkata |
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors |
Dated: 28.05.2025 |
Vinay Dalmia |
Vivek Agarwala |
|
Director |
Director |
|
DIN: 01219851 |
DIN: 00595954 |