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Corporate Governance Report
 
Company’s Philosophy on Corporate Governance
The Company recognizes that good Corporate Governance is essential to build and retain the confidence of its stakeholders. To this end, the Company’s philosophy on Corporate Governance is to endeavour to ensure:
  • That systems and procedures which monitor compliance with laws, rules and regulations are in place in each area of its business.

  • That relevant information regarding the Company and its operation is disclosed, disseminated and easily available to its stakeholders.

As reported in last year, Corporate Governance Report dated 29th June, 2006, the company has taken various steps for implementation of the requirements placed under the revised Clause 49 of the listing agreement with the Stock Exchanges.

Your Company’s policy is aimed at achieving quality management services at all levels and to adhere to all the laws, rules, regulations meant for Corporate Governance at all times and have the best management team that can also effectively monitor corporate decisions for sustained growth. Accordingly, the requirements of guidelines pertaining to the Corporate Governance as stipulated under clause 49 of the Listing Agreements have been adhered to.

Board of Directors

  1. Composition and Category of Directors
    To strengthen the Company policies for adherence of Corporate Governance, the Company had already taken steps to appoint one Independent Director to broad base the Board of Directors.

    The Board of Directors consists of two promoter Directors (one executive Chairman and Managing Director and one Non-executive Director) and three Independent and Non-executive Directors.

    The Composition of Directors, their attendance at Board Meetings during the Financial Year 2006-2007 and at the last Annual General Meeting and their other Directorships/Committee Memberships in other Companies are as follows:

As on 31st March, 2007

Name of Directors

Category

Attendance
Particulars

Directorships
 held in Other Companies *

Committee Memberships
held in other Companies **

   

Board Meeting

Last
AGM
As Director As
Chairman
As
Member
As
Chairman
Shri Gopal Ansal P-CMD 4 Yes 1 - - -
Shri Deepak Ansal P-NED 4 Yes 3 1 1 -
Shri Subhash Verma I-NED 4 Yes 1 - - -
Shri K.S. Bakshi I-NED 0 Yes - - - -
Shri V.P. Verma I-NED 4 Yes - - - -

P

Promoter

NED Non-Executive Director
CMD Chairman cum Managing Director
P – NED Promoter Non-Executive Director
I – NED Independent and Non-executive Director

* Excludes Directorships held in Private Limited Companies, Foreign Companies, Companies U/s 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 and Memberships of Managing Committees of various Chambers/Institutions.
  
** Memberships/Chairmanships of Audit Committee, Share Transfer cum Shareholders’ Grievance Committee and Remuneration Committee have been considered.

  1. Details of Meetings of Board of Directors held during the Financial Year 2006-2007.

  Date

No. of Directors Present
  29.06.2006 4
  28.07.2006 4
  31.10.2006 4
  31.01.2007 4


Dates of Board Meetings were fixed in advance and agenda papers were circulated to Directors before the meeting. It was also ensured that the gap between the two Board Meetings should not exceed four months.

  1. Details of sitting fees paid to Non-Executive Directors
    The Company does not pay any remuneration to its Non-Executive/Independent Directors except sitting fee for attending meetings of the Board of Directors @ Rs. 2,500/- and Audit Committee meetings @ Rs. 1,500/- per meeting to each Director. No sitting fee is paid to Chairman cum Managing Director. The sitting fee paid to the Directors for meetings of Board of Directors and Audit Committee meetings for the year ended 31st March 2007 is as follows.
Name of the Directors

Sitting Fee for Board Meetings

Sitting Fee for Audit Committee Meetings

Shri Deepak Ansal

Rs. 10,000/-

Rs. 4,500/-

Shri Subhash Verma Rs. 10,000/- Rs. 6,000/-
Shri K.S. Bakshi NIL NIL
Shri V.P. Verma Rs. 10,000/- Rs. 6,000/-
  1. Executive Chairman & Managing Director
    The Company has Executive Chairman & Managing Director Shri Gopal Ansal who is responsible for overall planning, policy, strategy, operations and marketing activities of the Company.
     
  2. Details of remuneration paid to the Executive Director for the financial year 2006-2007.
    Remuneration of Chairman cum Managing Director is decided by the Board and is based on the recommendations of Remuneration Committee as per remuneration policy of the Company within the ceiling fixed by the shareholders. Remuneration of Shri Gopal Ansal, Chairman cum Managing Director for the year ended 31st March, 2007 was as follows.
Name of the Director Designation Salary Rs. Perks Rs. Total Rs.
Shri Gopal Ansal Chairman cum Managing Director 27,36,000/- 2,98,072/- 30,34,072/-
  1. Retirement of directors
    The Chairman & Managing Director is not subject to retirement by rotation while the non Executive Directors and independent Directors are liable to retire by rotation as per provisions of the Companies Act, 1956. The Chairman and Managing Director was reappointed for a period of 3 years with effect from 1st April, 2006. Shri Subhash Verma and Shri K.S. Bakshi the non executive and Independent Directors of the Company retire by rotation at the ensuing Annual General Meeting and, being eligible, offers himself for re-appointment.
     

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURES

Your Company has constituted following Committees of the Board

  1. Audit Committee
    To oversee the Company’s Financial reporting process and disclosure of its financial information including internal control system, reviewing the Accounting Policies and Practices, report of the Company’s Internal Audit Department and Quarterly/Half Yearly/Yearly Financial Statements as also to review financial management policies, the Company has set up an Audit Committee on 31st January, 2001. The Committee as on date comprises of four directors viz Shri Gopal Ansal, Shri Deepak Ansal , Shri Subhash Verma and Shri V.P. Verma. The terms of reference of Audit Committee are as per requirements of listing agreement and the Companies Act, 1956. During the Financial Year 2006-2007, four Audit Committee Meetings were held on 29th June, 2006, 28th July, 2006, 31st October, 2006 and 31st January, 2007.

    Shri Subhash Verma an Independent Non-Executive Director is the Chairman of the Audit
    Committee.

    The Company Secretary acts as Secretary of the Committee.

    The powers of audit committee have been re-broadened pursuant to amended clause 49 of the listing agreement.

    The role of audit committee was also redefined pursuant to amended clause 49 of the Listing Agreement.

    Scope of functions of Audit Committee

    1. The Members of the Audit Committee shall have discussion with the auditors periodically about adequacy of internal control system and control procedures, scope of audit including the observations of the auditors, and review the quarterly/half yearly and annual financial statements, before submission to the Board, and also ensure compliance of internal control system.
       
    2. The audit committee shall have authority to investigate into any matter in relation to the items specified in Section 292A or referred to it by the Board and for this purpose shall have full access to information contained in the records of the Company.
       

    3. Any recommendation given by the Audit Committee on any matter relating to Financial Management including the audit report, shall be binding on the Board. If any recommendation is not accepted by the Board, it shall record the reasons thereof and also communicate such reasons to the Shareholders.
       

    4. The Audit Committee shall meet periodically as many times as may be prescribed under the rules framed by the Central Government and/or as may be required by the listing agreement with Stock Exchange, from time to time. However, it will be essential to have such meetings for review of quarterly/half yearly and annual financial statements before these are submitted to the Board.
       

  2. Share Transfer cum Shareholders’ Grievances Redressal Committee
    To specifically look after share transfer work and to look into the redressal of complaints like transfer of shares, non-receipt of annual report and non-receipt of dividend etc., the Company has set up a Share Transfer cum Shareholders Grievances Redressal Committee. The Committee consists of three members viz. Shri Gopal Ansal as chairman, Shri Subhash Verma Director and Shri Ashok Babu, Company Secretary as Members.

    During the year under review seventeen meetings of the committee were held. This committee has been constituted to look into shareholders/Investors grievances and suggest remedial measures and to take timely action on transfer of shares, issue of Duplicate Share, Split, Transmission, Consolidation, Demat and Remat of shares. During the years under review six complaints were received from the shareholders of the Company which were satisfactorily
    redressed and at the end of the year under review no shareholders’ complaint was pending.
     
  3. Remuneration Committee
    The Remuneration Committee comprises of three Directors viz Shri Subhash Verma as Chairman and Shri Deepak Ansal and Shri V.P. Verma as members. All are non Executive Directors. Broad terms of reference of the Remuneration Committee include recommendation to the Board on salary/perquisites, commission and retirement benefits and finalisation of the perquisite package
    payable to the Company’s Managing Director/Whole-time Directors.

    Last Remuneration Committee Meeting was held on 29th June, 2007 for recommending the increase in the remuneration of Shri Gopal Ansal, Chairman cum Managing Director pursuant to the provision of section 198, 269, 309, 310, 311 read with the schedule XIII of the Companies Act, 1956, as stated in the Special Resolution as Item No. 6 of the accompanying notice for your approval.

Appointment of CEO and CFO and their certification to the Board of Directors
Shri Gopal Ansal, Chairman cum Managing Director of the Company was appointed as the CEO of the Company.

Shri R.L. Gupta, Sr.V.P.(Finance) of the Company was appointed as CFO of the Company. The intimation regarding above appointments has already been given to Bombay Stock Exchange Association Ltd.

In terms of the requirement of the amended clause 49, the certificates from CEO and CFO had been obtained and placed before the Board of Directors.

Code of Conduct
In tune with the corporate philosophy, the Board of Directors of the Company in its meeting held on 27th October, 2005 laid down a code of Conduct for all Board Members and Senior Management of the Company in terms of the requirement placed in the amended clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. The Code of Conduct is displayed at Company’s Website.

All members of the Board and Senior Management personnel affirm compliance with the code of conduct and business ethics and Shri Gopal Ansal, Chairman cum Managing Director has given declaration to this effect as hereunder.

Declaration for Compliance of Code of Conduct
I hereby confirm that:
The Company has obtained from all members of the Board and Senior Management personnel, affirmation that they have complied with the code of conduct and ethics for Directors and senior management personnel for the financial year 2006-2007

Date : 29th June, 2007
Place : New Delhi
Gopal Ansal
Chairman-cum-Managing Director

 


Particulars of Last three Annual General Meetings

The dates, time and venue of the three previous Annual General Meetings held during the last three years are given below:

Financial Year Day Date Time Venue

2003-2004

Thursday

30.09.2004

11.00 A.M.

Sri Sathya Sai International Centre and School
Lodhi Road
New Delhi-110 003

2004-2005 Friday 30.09.2005 11.00 A.M. Sri Sathya Sai International Centre and School
Lodhi Road
New Delhi-110 003
2005-2006 Friday 29.09.2006 11.00 A.M. Sri Sathya Sai International Centre and School
Lodhi Road
New Delhi-110 003

 

 

 

 


 


Share Transaction Regulatory System for Prevention of Insider Trading
The Board of Directors of the Company have adopted the Code of Conduct and control procedure for prevention of insider trading, in their Board Meeting held on 30th July, 2002. The Code contains the rules, regulations and process for transactions, in the shares of Company and it applies to all transactions and for all associates, in whatever Capacity they may be, including directors and senior executives of the Company.

Forfeiture of Shares
During the year under review, the Company had forfeited 45904 equity shares for non-payment of allotment money for long period of time. The Company complied all the formalities in this connection. The Bombay Stock Exchange has also taken on record the above forfeiture of the equity shares.

Other Disclosures

  1. The Company did not have any materially significant related party transactions, which may have potential conflict with the interest of the Company. The disclosure relating to transactions with the related parties as per Accounting Standard 18 is appearing in Para (4) of Part B of Schedule 12 of the annual accounts of the Company for the year ended 31st March, 2007.
     

  2. The Company has complied with the requirements of regulatory authorities on capital markets and no penalties/strictures have been imposed/issued against it in the last three years.

Means of Communication

  1. Quarterly results in the year 2006-2007

  1. Newspapers where quarterly Results are published
:

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

The Pioneer
Veer Arjun
The Pioneer
Veer Arjun
The Financial Express
Jansatta
The Pioneer
Veer Arjun

02.07.06
02.07.06
29.07.06
29.07.06
02.11.06
03.11.06
01.02.07
01.02.07

  1. Website where quarterly results
    are displayed
: www.sebi.gov.in.com
(EDIFAR)
  1. Whether the website also displays official news releases and presentations to institutional investors/analysts
     
  2. Newspaper where Audited Financial Results are published
     
  3. Whether Management Discussion
    and Analysis is a part of Annual
    Report or not.
:




:


:
  Not yet




Normally published in The Pioneer (English) Veer Arjun (Hindi)

Yes


General Shareholders information

i) Annual General Meeting
- Date & Time : Wednesday, 26th September, 2007 at 11.00 a.m. Sri Sathya Sai International Centre & School, Lodhi Road, Institutional Area, Pragati Vihar, New Delhi-110 001
 
ii) Financial Calendar : 01.04.2007 to 31.03.2008
Approval of Unaudited Financial Results
 
- Quarter ended June 30, 2007 : Last week of July, 2007
- Quarter ended Sept. 30, 2007 : Last week of October, 2007
- Quarter ended Dec. 31, 2007 : Last week of January, 2008
- Quarter ended Mar. 31, 2008 : Last week of April, 2008
 
iii) Book Closure Date : 17th September, 2007 to 26th September, 2007 (Both days inclusive)
iv) Registered Office : 118, UFF, Prakashdeep Building, 7, Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi-110 001
Tel : 23353051 & 23353052
Fax : 23310639
Email: ansalabl@vsnl.com
Website: www.ansalabl.com
v) Listing of Securities : The Equity Shares of the Company are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange Limited.
vi) Listing Fees : Listing Fees up to the year 2007-2008 has been paid to the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited where Company’s Shares are listed.
vii) Stock Exchange Address & Stock Code : The Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd, Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Tower, 1st Floor, New Trading Ring, Rotunda Building, P.J. Towers, Dalal Street, Mumbai-400001
Stock Exchange Code : 523007
Demat ISIN Number : INE030C0101
viii) Share Transfer System : The Company has appointed In-Time Spectrum Registry as a Common Agency for share registry work in term of both physical and electronic modes.
ix) Dematerialization of Shares : The Company has been offering dematerialization facility to the shareholders.
The demat facility is available to all the
shareholders of the Company who request for
such facility.
x) Investor correspondence : All enquiries, clarification and correspondence
should be addressed to Registrar and Share
Transfer Agent :
M/s In-Time Spectrum Registry Ltd.
A-40, 2nd Floor, Naraina Industrial Area,
Phase-II, Near Batra Banquet Hall,
New Delhi-110 028
xi) Compliance Officer : Mr Ashok Babu
Sr. G.M. & Company Secretary
Ansal Buildwell Limited
118, UFF, Prakashdeep Building,
7, Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi-110 001



Other Useful Information for Shareholders

  1. The Dividend recommended by the Board of Directors in their meeting held on the 29th June, 2007, @ 18%, if approved at the Annual General Meeting to be held on the 26th September, 2007, will be paid to the members whose names shall appear on the Company’s Register of Members / Register of Beneficial Owners as on the 17th September, 2007.
     

  2. Equity Shares of the Company are under compulsory demat trading by all investors w.e.f. 26th March, 2001. Considering the advantage of scripless trading, shareholders are requested to consider dematerialization of their shareholding so as to avoid inconvenience in future.
     

  3. Members/Beneficial owners are requested to quote their Folio No/ D.P. & Client I.D. Nos. as the case may be in all correspondence with the Company.
     

  4. Members holding shares in physical form are requested to notify to the Company, change if any in their addresses and bank details.
     

  5. Beneficial owners of shares are requested to send their instructions regarding change of address, bank details, nomination, power of attorney etc. directly to their DP as the same are maintained by the DPs.
     

  6. Section 109A of the Companies Act, 1956 extends nomination facility to individuals holding shares in physical form in companies. Members, in particular those holding shares in single name, may avail of the above facility by furnishing the particulars of their nomination in the prescribed nomination form.
     

  7. Registrar and Share Transfer Agent
    The shares of the Company are under compulsory demat w.e.f. 26th March, 2001. The Company has appointed following Registrar as a Common Agency for the share registry work in terms of both physical as well as electronic form, as a single point.

    M/s In-Time Spectrum Registry
    A-40, 2nd Floor, Naraina Industrial Area,
    Phase-II, Near Batra Banquet Hall, New Delhi-110 028
     

  8. Distribution of Shareholding
    The distribution of shareholding as on 31st March, 2007 was as under

TABLE
 
Share Holding of Shareholders Share Amount
Rs. Rs. Number % to total Rs. % to total
Upto 2,500 9853 82.847 97,63,990 13.223
2,501 5,000 1321 11.107 50,37,180 6.822
5,001 10,000 397 3.338 31,44,460 4.259
10,001 20,000 162 1.362 24,38,140 3.302
20,001 30,000 52 0.437 13,05,380 1.768
30,001 40,000 23 0.193 8,22,710 1.114
40,001 50,000 21 0.177 9,83,840 1.332
50,001 1,00,000 30 0.252 21,50,020 2.912
1,00,001 & above 34 0.286 4,81,92,710 65.268
  Total 11893 100.000 7,38,38,430 100.000


 

 

  1. Details of Shareholding as on 31st March, 2007 was as under :

S.No. Category No. of Shares held % of Shareholding
1. Promoters 3954900 53.56
2. Mutual Funds/UTI 200 0.00
3. Banks, Financial Institutions,
Insurance Companies
450 0.01
4. Private Corporate Bodies 796192 10.78
5. Indian Public 2559921 34.67
6. NRI, Foreign Nationals,
OCBs and FIIs
72180 0.98
  Total 7383843 100.000


 

  1. Dematerialization of Shares and Liquidity
    The shares of the Company fall under the category of compulsory delivery in dematerialized mode by all categories of investors. The Company has signed agreements with both the Depositories i.e. National Securities Depository Limited and Central Depositories Service (India) Limited. Over 88% of the share capital of the company has already been dematerialized till 31/03/2007.
     

  2. Outstanding GDRs/ADRs/Warrants or any
    Convertible Instruments, conversion date

  3. And likely impact on equity : NIL

 

  1. High and Low of the shares for the Financial Year 2006-2007.

Month High Low
April, 2006 373.95 157.95
May, 2006 460.00 253.35
June, 2006 261.00 110.95
July, 2006 126.15 80.00
August, 2006 128.40 87.50
September, 2006 101.80 86.00
October, 2006 141.90 105.60
November, 2006 265.10 136.10
December, 2006 210.00 148.35
January, 2007 180.90 160.00
February, 2007 172.00 99.80
March, 2007 110.95 84.55

 

 

 

 

  1. Address for Correspondence
    Ansal Buildwell Limited
    118, UFF Prakashdeep Building,
    7, Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi-110 001
     

  2. Compliance Certificate of the Auditors
    The Company has received a certificate from Statutory Auditors certifying compliance of the mandatory requirements mentioned in clause 49 of the listing agreement.

  For and on behalf of the Board
Place : New Delhi
Date : 29th June, 2007
Gopal Ansal
Chairman-cum-Managing Director
 

 

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