Directors Report of Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

Mar 31, 2025

Your Directors have the pleasure in presenting the 24^th Annual Report of the Company along with the
Audited Financial Statements (both Standalone and Consolidated) for the Financial Year (FY) ended
31^st March, 2025 and other allied Statements/Disclosures as required as per the applicable statute.

Overview of the State of the Company’s Affairs

Your Company’s performance is primarily dependent upon two factors, one, being the dividend
received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited (BL) and the other being the interest
received from deployment of short-term surplus funds with Scheduled Commercial Banks.

During the year under review, i.e., 2024-25, there was an increase in interest income and dividend
income of the Company and accordingly, the total income of your Company increased by around Rs.
1233.68 Lakhs as compared to the last FY, i.e., 2023-24. The amount of dividend income received
from the subsidiary and the interest income earned during the FY under review was at an enhanced
rate.

The summary of comparative annual financial results for the FY under review, i.e., 2024-25 as against
the immediately preceding FY, i.e., 2023-24, has been furnished below:

Financial Summary

Particulars	Financial Year ended 31st March, 2025	Financial Year ended 31st march, 2024
Profit before Tax	9,967.58	8,780.81
Less: Tax Expense	258.33	219.16
Profit after Tax	9,709.25	8,561.65

Transfer to Reserves

The Board of Directors has decided not to transfer any amount to reserves.
share Capital

The paid-up Equity Share Capital of the Company as on 31^st March, 2025 stood at Rs.22,19,72,690/-
(at same value in the previous year). During the year under review, the Company has not issued
any shares with differential voting rights nor has granted any stock options or sweat equity shares.
It may be pertinent to mention that the Board in its meeting dated 28^th May, 2024 had reviewed
the compliance of Guidelines on Capital Restructuring of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)
bearing reference no. - F. No. 5/2/2016-Policy dated 27^th May, 2016 (‘DIPAM Guidelines’) on the basis
of the Financial Statements of FY 2023-2024. In respect of same the Market value of the shares of the
Company as on 28^th March, 2024 (being the last trading day of the FY) and 16^th May, 2024 were Rs.
611.15/- and Rs. 837.05/- respectively which exceeded 50 times of its face value and attracted the
requirement of Splitting/Sub-Division of the Equity shares of the Company.

In furtherance of same the Board at the said meeting recommended to split/subdivide the equity
shares of the Company from the face value of Rs.10/- each fully paid-up to the face value of Re.1
each fully paid-up and accordingly the capital clause of Memorandum of Association and Article of
Association of the Company was also amended wherein the Authorized Share Capital of the
Company was divided into 100,00,00,000 Equity Shares of Re.1/- each. The said proposal was
approved by the Shareholders through Postal Ballot dated 10^th July, 2024.

Post splitting/Sub-division of the Equity shares of the Company the Authorized shares of the Company
increased from 10,00,00,000 (Ten Crores) equity shares of Rs. 10/- each to 100,00,00,000 (One
Hundred Crores) equity shares of Re. 1/- each and the Issued, Subscribed and Paid-up Equity Shares

of the Company increased from 22197269 (Two Crore Twenty One Lakhs Ninety Seven thousand
Two Hundred and Sixty Nine) equity shares of Rs. 10/- each fully paid-up to 22,19,72,690 (Twenty-
Two Crores Nineteen Lakhs Seventy Two Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety) equity shares Re. 1/-
each fully paid-up respectively.

Dividend

The Board at its meeting held on 21^st May, 2025 had recommended a dividend of 430%, i.e., Rs. 4.30
(Rupees Four and Paise Thirty Only) per equity share of Re.1/- each fully paid-up for the FY ended
31^st March, 2025 as against 380%, i.e., Rs. 3.80 (Rupees Three and Paise Eighty Only) per equity
share of Re. 1/- each for the previous FY ended 31^st March, 2024.

The dividend, if declared by the shareholders at the ensuing 24^th Annual General Meeting (AGM),
will be paid either by way of demand draft or through electronic mode to those Shareholders who
would be holding shares of the Company as on the Record date fixed for the purpose i.e., Tuesday,
16^th September, 2025 (End of Day), within 30 days from the date of such declaration. In respect of
shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as per details to be furnished
by their respective Depositories, i.e., either Central Depository Services (India) Limited or National
Securities Depository Limited as on Tuesday, 16^th September, 2025 (End of Day) fixed as Record
date for the purpose. The dividend to be paid shall be subject to Tax deducted at source and other
applicable provisions of Income Tax Act, 1961. Members holding securities in physical mode, inter-
alia, for registering/updating the KYC details and for the processing of various service requests are
requested to kindly refer to the requisite forms stipulated in the SEBI Master Circular dated 23^rd
June, 2025. As per the SEBI Master Circular dated 23^rd June, 2025, for Folios without PAN and KYC
details, any payment of dividend shall be made only through electronic mode upon complying with
the requirements stated in para 19.1 of the said Master Circular. Accordingly, the shareholders are
requested to kindly submit the requisite documents in the prescribed formats to the RTA.

Appropriation

The amount available for appropriations for the FY 2024-25 as compared to the immediately preceding
FY 2023-24 are given hereunder:

	STANDALONE FINANCIAL REsULTs		consolidated financial results1
Particulars	2024-25	2023-24	2024-25	2023-24
Profit After Tax	9709.25	8561.65	26653.95	24196.47
Add: Transfer from Profit & Loss Account	9326.01	8089.46	85432.59	77487.34
Total amount available for Appropriation	19035.26	16651.11	112086.54	101683.81
Appropriations:
Dividend paid 380 @ %, in Financial Year 2024-2025 and @ 330% paid in Financial Year 2023-24	8434.96	7325.10	8434.96	7325.10
Corporate Tax on Dividend	-	-	-	-
Transfer to General Reserve	-	-	-	-
Other Adjustment	-	-	3471.48	8926.12
Minority interest / Foreign Exchange Conversion Reserve etc.	-	-
Surplus carried forward to next year	10600.30	9326.01	100180.10	85432.59
Total of Appropriations	19035.26	16651.11	112086.54	101683.81

Dividend Distribution Policy

As per average market capitalization of the Company as on 31^st December, 2024 and market
capitalization as on 31^st March, 2024, the Company was not falling under top 1000 listed entities.
Accordingly, formulation of Dividend Distribution Policy as per regulation 43A of Securities and
Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 ("the
Listing Regulations”) was not applicable to the Company for FY 2024-25 or even thereafter. However,
the Company is governed by the guidelines of Department of Investment and Public Asset Management,
Ministry of Finance, Government of India, on Revised Guidelines on Capital Restructuring of Central
Public Sector Enterprises dated 18^th November, 2024 which contains detailed provisions regarding
payment of dividend. The said guidelines are available on the website of the Company at the
following link: https://www.blinv.com/admin/uploads/revised%20DIPAM%20quidelines.pdf

Material changes and commitments affecting the financial position of the Company occurred
between the end of the Financial Year (FY) and the date of the Report

There have been no material changes and commitments affecting the financial position of the Company
occurred between the end of the FY and the date of the report.

Deposits with Bank

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in various Fixed Deposit Schemes of the Scheduled
Commercial Banks. As on 31^st March, 2025, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit
Schemes (including accrued interest) was Rs. 15,819.34 Lakh. The deposits yielded an interest
income of Rs.1127.92 Lakh during the FY ended 31^st March, 2025 (as against Rs.944.69 Lakh for the
FY ended 31^st March, 2024).

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity except, to hold the equity shares of
Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited and accordingly, matters to be covered under ‘Management
Discussion and Analysis Report’ are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies and their contribution to the overall performance of the
Company during the year

In terms of Section 2(87) of the Companies Act, 2013 (‘the Act’), your Company has two subsidiaries,
namely, Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited (‘BL’), and Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited
(‘VPLPL’). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.80%), your Company is the holding Company of BL. BL
in turn has one subsidiary VPLPL.

The Company has a "Policy for determining material subsidiaries” in terms of the amended Listing
Regulations. The policy may be accessed on the Company’s website at:

https://www.blinv.com/admin/uploads/Policy on determining material subsidiaries
amended.pdf

As per the aforesaid policy, none of its subsidiaries appear to be a material subsidiary of the Company.
There was no instance where any company has become or ceased to be the Subsidiaries, joint
ventures or associate companies during the year.

As stated earlier, the major income of the Company is the dividend received from the Subsidiary-
Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd.

A brief write up about the Subsidiaries inter-alia reporting about its performance and financial position
and other significant events is presented hereunder:

BL recorded a net turnover of Rs. 2,57,762.84 Lakh during FY 2024-25 as against Rs. 2,40,416.53
Lakh in 2023-24 registering an increase of approximately 7.22% over the last year. It also recorded
a Profit Before Tax of Rs. 31,378.99 Lakh in FY 2024-25 as against Rs. 27,865.34 Lakh in FY 2023¬
24. The increase is majorly attributable to the remarkable performance of business of SBU-Travel &
Vacations and SBU-Logistics Services of BL.

While a dividend of Rs. 8982.74 Lakhs was received from BL during the FY 2024-25. BL’s Board of
Directors has recommended a dividend of Rs. 8.50 per equity share for FY 2024-25 which shall be
received in FY 2025-26.

Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (VPLPL)

Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Ltd. a 60:40 joint venture between Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL)
and Visakhapatnam Port Authority (VPA), operates a dynamic Multimodal Logistics Hub (MMLH) in
Visakhapatnam.

This state-of-the-art facility includes:

• A Container Freight Station (CFS), designed to handle EXIM cargo efficiently.

• An Open yard storage facility, providing ample space for diversified cargos.

• 1 EXIM and 1 Domestic warehouse with advanced automation for maximizing efficiency.

• A temperature-controlled storage solution offering frozen and chilled chambers capable of handling
3,780 pallets for both EXIM and Domestic cargo.

• 1.30 KM Rail Siding, allowing it to handle up to 4 rakes per day, thus, ensuring seamless
transportation logistics.

The MMLH caters to both bonded and non-bonded cargo and offers value-added services such as
customs clearance, sorting, grading, aggregation, disaggregation and freight handling. The MMLH
project was chosen to be developed in Visakhapatnam, due to the presence of Natural Port, which
acts as a gateway to the vast industrial market of the far-east countries.

The CFS business segment, which commenced its operations on 2^nd March 2023, continued to play
a pivotal role in VPLPL’s business portfolio. During the FY 2024-25, the CFS handled an impressive
7816 TEUS of Export cargo and 8793 TEUS of Import cargo, generating a revenue of Rs.1586 lakhs,
as compared to revenue of Rs.1240 lakhs, earned in the previous FY 2023-24, giving rise to a growth
in revenue of 28%.

During the FY 2024-25, the Railway Siding business segment handled in total 84 rakes as against 40
rakes handled in the previous FY 2023-24. This business segment experienced a growth of 110% in
terms of number of rakes handled by the VPLPL, thereby generating a revenue of Rs.145 lakhs as
against Rs.24 lakhs earned in the previous FY 2023-24.

During the FY 2024-25:

i. There was a drop-in capacity utilization and revenue of the Ambient Warehouse business, which
operated at an average of 73% of its installed capacity, as against 100% (FY 2023-24).

ii. The revenue generated from Open Yard business segment was Rs.318 lakhs as against Rs.354
lakhs earned in the previous FY 2023-24.

iii. The Temperature Controlled Warehouse (TCW) business segment generated a revenue of Rs.24
lakhs as against Rs.359 lakhs, earned in the previous FY 2023-24.

Overall, the total revenue of VPLPL had a very nominal increase from Rs.2191 lakhs (FY 2023-24) to
Rs.2199 lakhs earned during the FY 2024-25. Due to increase in cost of services connected to CFS
operations, EBIDTA registered a drop-in percentage of the total revenue from 44% to 25%, resulting
in increase of loss from Rs.1038 lakhs in FY 2023-24 to Rs.1671 lakhs in FY 2024-25.

In December 2024, the Term Loan from the State Bank of India was refinanced by Power Finance
Corporation Ltd. (PFCL), with additional benefits like reduced interest rate of 10%, longer repayment
tenure of 10 years and 1 year moratorium of installment payments.

VPLPL is looking for a better FY 2025-26, by inducting new customers in its TCW segment and for its
undeveloped portion of the Open yard business segment, which will augment its revenue generation
from these two business segments. Rake handling business is expected to grow further and the CFS
operations will continue to play a pivotal role in VPLPL’s business.

Financial Statements of Subsidiary Companies

The Financial Statements and Results of your Company have been duly consolidated with its Subsidiary
pursuant to applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 & the Companies (Indian Accounting
Standards) Rules, 2015 (as amended), the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirement)
Regulations, 2015 and the applicable Indian Accounting Standards (Ind-AS).

Further, in line with first proviso to Section 129(3) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Rules
thereon, Consolidated Financial Statements prepared by your Company includes a separate Statement
in ‘Form AOC-1’ containing the salient features of the Financial Statement of your Company’s
Subsidiary (as applicable) which forms part of the Annual Report.

However, separate audited accounts in respect of each of its subsidiary is placed on the website of
the Company - https://www.blinv.com/subsidiary.php Further, a copy of separate audited financial
statements in respect of each of the subsidiary shall be provided on requisition by any shareholder of
the Company in writing.

Cessation/Change in Joint Ventures/Subsidiaries/Associate Companies during the Year

During FY 2024-25, there were no changes in Joint Ventures/Subsidiaries/Associate Companies of
the Company.

Deposits

Your Company has neither accepted nor was holding any deposits from the public during the FY
2024-25 and accordingly no deposit remained unpaid or unclaimed at the end of FY and there was
no instance of default in repayment of deposits or interests thereon during the FY and there were NIL
deposits which were not in compliance with the requirements of Chapter V of the Companies Act,
2013. Further, the Company shall not be accepting any deposits in FY 2025-26.

Compliance of Right to Information (RTI) act, 2005

Information, which are mandatorily required to be disclosed under the RTI Act 2005 have been
disclosed on the website of your Company. The report on receipt and disposal of RTI applications
during the FY 2024-25 is as under:

	Opening Balance as on 01.04.2024	received during the Year (including cases transferred to other Public authority)	No. of cases transferred to other Public authorities	decisions where request/ appeals rejected	decisions where requests/ appeals accepted	Closing balance as on 31.03.2025
(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)
requests	0	2	0	0	1	1
First appeals	0	0	0	0	0	0

* These requests were received online through RTI Request & Appeal Management Information
System hence, the fee is collected by Department of Personnel & Training, Government of India.

Conservation of Energy, Technology absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Since, the Company does not have any business other than to hold shares of its subsidiary, Balmer
Lawrie & Co. Ltd. the reporting of Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption as per Rule 8(3) of
the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is not applicable for your Company.

The details pertaining to Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo are enumerated as under: NIL

Risk Management Policy

Since the Company has no regular business activity, except to hold the Equity Shares of its listed
Indian subsidiary, i.e., Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., requirement of a risk management plan is not
applicable to the Company.

It may be pertinent to mention that the Company being a special purpose vehicle formed for temporary
purpose, and as stated above, it does not carry out any business other than holding 61.80% equity
shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd.

Further, since the Company did not fall within top 1000 listed entities as per market capitalization
as on 31^st March 2024 and average market capitalization as on 31^st December, 2024 the provisions
of Regulation 21 of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure
Requirements) Regulations, 2015 are not applicable to the Company.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Annual Report on CSR Activities

1. Brief outline on CsR Policy of the Company

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability Policy of the Company is as under:
Philosophy

The Policy is in the nature of initiatives or endeavour which the key stakeholders expect of the
Company in the discharge of their Corporate Social Responsibility. It reflects the willingness of
the Company to voluntarily take a few extra steps to address social, economic and environmental
concerns but are nevertheless worthy of attention for promotion of sustainable development in its
diverse dimensions.

activities to be undertaken

It is the policy of the Company to undertake any activity which is permissible to be carried out
towards CSR as per:

1) Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 (the act) and the allied Rules, including any statutory
amendment thereof,

2) The guidelines formulated by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on CSR and
Sustainability (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Guidelines’) which are applicable to CPSEs.

implementation

The Company shall endeavour to implement activities/programs as per the CSR Policy keeping
in view:

1) the constraints faced due to the form and nature of organisation.

2) the administrative and incidental cost are minimum so that the maximum expenditure so
allocated is spent for the benefit of the society.

CsR Expenditure

CSR expenditure will include all expenditure, direct and indirect, incurred by the Company on CSR
Activities/Programmes undertaken in accordance with the approved CSR Plan.

Any surplus arising from any CSR Activities/Programmes shall be used for CSR. Accordingly, any

income arising from CSR Programmes will be netted off from the CSR expenditure and such net
amount will be reported as CSR expenditure.

The Company has implemented the policy on Corporate Social Responsibility while undertaking
the CSR initiatives taken during the FY 2024-25. The CSR Policy of the Company is available on
the website of the Company at:

https://www.blinv.com/admin/uploads/CSR and Sustainability Policy.pdf

2. Composition of CsR Committee as on 31^st March, 2025

The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Company consisted of the following
Members as on 31^st March, 2025:

Sl. No.	name of Director	designation/nature of directorship	number of meeting of CSR Committee held during the year	number of meeting of CSR Committee attend¬ ed during the year
1	Shri Saurav Dutta	Non-Executive Director (Ex-Officio) - Chairman	1	1
2	Shri Arvind Nath Jha	Government Nominee Director - Member	1	1
3	Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty	Government Nominee Director - Member	1	1

3. The web-link where Composition of CsR Committee, CsR Policy and CsR Projects approved
by the board are disclosed on the website of the company.

https://www.blinv.com/abt.php#:~:text=Corporate%20Social%20Committee%20(CSR)

https://www.blinv.com/admin/uploads/CSR and Sustainability Policy.pdf

https://www.blinv.com/abt.php#:~:text=19.%20Corporate%20Social%20Responsibility%20

Annual%20Action%20Plan%20of%20Balmer%20Lawrie%20lnvestments%20Limited%20

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Since the Company makes the CSR Expenditure by way of contribution to permissible Funds as
per Schedule VII to the Companies Act, 2013, there are no CSR projects, per se to be enumerated
on its website.

4. The executive summary along with web-link(s) of impact assessment of CSR Projects
carried out in pursuance of sub-rule (3) of rule 8, if applicable - Not Applicable.

5. (a) Average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135. - Rs. 647.12 Lakhs.

(b) Two percent of average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135. -
Rs. 12.943 Lakhs.

(c) Surplus arising out of the CSR Projects or programmes or activities of the previous financial
years. - Nil.

(d) Amount required to be set-off for the financial year, if any. - nil.

(e) Total CSR obligation for the financial year [(b) (c)-(d)]. - Rs. 12.943 Lakhs

6. (a) Amount spent on CSR Projects (both Ongoing Project and other than Ongoing Project). -

Rs. 12.943 Lakhs

(b) Amount spent in Administrative overheads. - nil

(c) Amount spent on Impact Assessment, if applicable. - not applicable

(d) Total amount spent for the Financial Year [(a) (b) (c)]. - Rs. 12.943 Lakhs

	amount Unspent (in Rs.)
Total Amount spent for the Financial Year. (in Rs.)	Total amount transferred to Unspent CsR account as per sub¬ section (6) of section 135.			amount tran specified ur as per secor section (5	ferred to any fund ider Schedule VII id proviso to sub- of section 135.
12.943 Lakhs	amount	date of transfer	Name of the Fund	amount	Date of transfer
	Nil	-	-	Nil	-

(f) Excess amount for set-off, if any:

Sl. No.	Particular	amount (Rs. /Lakhs)
(1)	(2)	(3)
(i)	Two percent of average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135	12.943
(ii)	Total amount spent for the Financial Year	12.943
(iii)	Excess amount spent for the Financial Year [(ii)-(i)]	-
(iv)	Surplus arising out of the CSR projects or programmes or activities of the previous Financial Years, if any	-
(v)	Amount available for set off in succeeding Financial Years [(iii)-(iv)]	-

7. Details of Unspent Corporate Social Responsibility amount for the preceding three
Financial Years: Nil

1	2	3	4	5	6		7	8
Sl. No.	Preceding Financial Year(s)	amount transferred to Unspent CSR account undersub¬ section (6) of section 135 (in Rs.)	Balance amount in Unspent CsR account undersub¬ section (6) of section 135 (in Rs.)	amount spent in the Financial Year (in Rs)	amount transferred to a Fund as specified under Schedule Vii as per second proviso to sub¬ section (5) of section 135, if any		amount remaining to be spent in succeeding Financial Years (in Rs)	Deficiency, if any
					amount (in Rs)	Date of transfer
1	Financial Year-1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Financial Year-2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	Financial Year-3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

8. Whether any capital assets have been created or acquired through Corporate social
responsibility amount spent in the Financial Year: No

If Yes, enter the number of Capital assets created/acquired

Furnish the details relating to such asset(s) so created or acquired through Corporate

Sl No.	Short particulars of the property or asset(s)	Pin code of the property or asset(s)	Date of creation	Amount of CSR amount spent	Details of entity/Authority/ beneficiary of the registered owner
	including complete address and location of the property
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
					CSR Registration Number, if applicable	Name	Registered address
_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_

9. Specify the reason(s), if the company has failed to spend two per cent of the average net profit as
per sub-section (5) of section 135. - Not Applicable

Shri Saurav Dutta Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty

Chairperson of CsR Committee member of CsR Committee

(DIN:10042140) (DIN:10404198)

directors’ responsibility statement

In terms of provisions of Section 134(3)(c) &134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 your Board of Directors
to the best of their knowledge and ability confirm that:

(i) in the preparation of the annual accounts for the FY ended on 31^st March, 2025, the applicable
accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanations and there were no material
departures;

(ii) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made
judgments and estimates that were 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 FY ended 31^st March, 2025 and of the profit
and loss of the Company for that period;

(iii) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting
records in accordance with the provision of the Act, for safeguarding the assets of the Company
and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

(iv) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts for the FY ended 31^st March, 2025 on a going
concern basis;

(v) the Directors had laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and that
such internal financial controls are adequate and were operating effectively;

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

Corporate Governance

Your Company has been consistently complying with the various Regulations, Circulars and Guidelines
of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as well as of Department of Public Enterprises
(DPE) to the extent under the control of the Company.

Pursuant to the said SEBI Regulations and DPE Guidelines, a separate section titled ‘Corporate
Governance Report’ is being furnished and marked as Annexure-1.

The provisions on Corporate Governance under DPE Guidelines which do not exist in the SEBI
Guidelines and also do not contradict any of the provisions of the SEBI Regulations are also complied
with.

Further, your Company’s Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of conditions of Corporate
Governance and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as Annexure-2.

Directors & Key Managerial Personnel (KMP) and meetings of the Board during the year
Directors and Key managerial Personnel

As on 31^st March, 2025, the Board of your Company consisted of the following three Directors:

a. Shri Saurav Dutta, Non-Executive Director (Ex-officio member), Non- Independent Director,
Chairperson.

b. Shri Arvind Nath Jha, Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director.

c. Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty, Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director.

The Company has only one KMP, i.e., Company Secretary. The Company does not have any MD/
Whole time director or CFO.

The Company being a Central Public Sector Enterprise, the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
(MOP&NG), being the Administrative Ministry directs the Company every time there is a change in
appointment of Directors is required.

meetings of the Board during the Financial Year (FY) ended on 31^st march, 2025-

The details of the meetings of the Board held during the FY have been enumerated in the Corporate
Governance Report marked as Annexure - 1.

Directors retired/appointed/resigned during the year

Appointments during the year: No Director was appointed during the FY 2024-2025

At the 23^rd Annual general Meeting of the Company held on 26^th September, 2024, the following
directors were appointed/reappointed-

1. Shri Saurav Dutta - (DIN: 10042140) Non-Executive Director (Ex-officio),who retire by rotation,
was reappointed.

2. Shri Arvind Nath Jha - (DIN: 10384829) was appointed as Government Nominee Director with effect
from 9^th November, 2023 for a period of three years from the date of nomination i.e. 18^th October,
2023 on co-terminus basis or until further orders from the Administrative Ministry, whichever is
earlier.

3. Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty - (DIN: 10404198) was appointed as Government Nominee Director
with effect from 7^th December, 2023 for a period of three years from the date of nomination i.e.
7^th December, 2023 on co-terminus basis or until further orders from the Administrative Ministry,
whichever is earlier.

Cessation: No Director was ceased during the FY 2024-2025

Details relating to Remuneration of Directors, Key Managerial Personnel and employees

Your Company being a Government Company, vide notification no. GSR 463(E) dated 5^th June, 2015
as amended by Notification No. GSR 582(E) dated 13^th June, 2017 and Notification No. GSR 802(E)
dated 23^rd February, 2018, and GSR 151(E) dated 2^nd March, 2020 has been exempted from the
applicability of Section 134(3)(e) and Section 197 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Company does
not pay any sitting fee to any directors except Independent Directors. Further, the Company does not
have any employee of its own other than the Company Secretary, who is seconded to the Company
from its subsidiary pursuant to the service agreement.

Your Company, being a Government Company - vide Notification No. GSR 463(E) dated 5^th June,
2015 as amended by Notification No. GSR 582(E) dated 13^th June, 2017 and Notification No. GSR
802(E) dated 23^rd February, 2018, and GSR 151(E) dated 2^nd March, 2020 has been exempted from
applicability of section 134(3)(p) and 178(2), (3) and (4) of the Companies Act, 2013.

As the appointment of directors of the Company (including the Independent Directors) is done as per
the direction of the Administrative Ministry, the Board is not in a position to form an opinion with regard
to the aspects stated in Rule 8(5)(iiia) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.

Declaration by independent Director

Your Company did not have an Independent Director as on FY ended 31^st March, 2025.

Audit Committee

The Committee as of 31^st March, 2025 consisted of 3 Members and all of them, including the
Chairperson of the Committee, were Non-Executive Directors.

As of 31^st March, 2025, the following were the Members of the Committee:

Names	Position held
Shri Arvind Nath Jha, Non-Executive - Government Nominee Director	Chairperson
Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty, Non-Executive - Government Nominee Director	Member
Shri Saurav Dutta, Non-Executive Director (Ex-Officio)	Member

All the Members of the Audit Committee are financially literate and some Members possess
accounting/financial management expertise also. The Company Secretary acts as the Secretary to
this Committee.

There were no such instances where the Board had not accepted any recommendation of the Audit
Committee.

Related Party Transactions

As per Regulation 23(5) of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure
Requirements) Regulations, 2015, sub regulations (2), (3) and (4) of Regulation 23 of the said
Regulations shall not apply to transactions entered into between two Public Sector Companies.

Further, there were no materially significant RPT during the FY under review which were entered
by the Company with Directors, Key Managerial Personnel or other Designated Persons which
have a potential conflict with the interest of the Company at large. Furthermore, no material related
party transaction was entered into by the Company as per the applicable provisions of the Listing
Regulations.

Your Company had adopted a policy on "Related Party Transactions” with effect from 28^th March, 2015.
The said Policy was last amended w.e.f. 1^st April, 2022 vide Board Resolution dated 11^th February,
2022 to bring it in line with the amendment in the provisions of the Listing Regulations and has been
uploaded on the website of the Company and is available on the following link:

https://www.blinv.com/admin/uploads/5%20Related%20Party%20Transactions.pdf

The said policy lays down a procedure to ensure that transactions by and between the Related Parties
and the Company are properly identified, reviewed and duly approved & disclosed in accordance with
the applicable laws. The Policy also sets out materiality thresholds for Related Party Transactions and
the material modifications thereof, as required under the Listing Regulations.

The Company in terms of Regulation 23 of the Listing Regulations submit on the date of publication
of its Standalone and Consolidated Financial results for the half year, disclosures of Related Party
transaction as per the format specified by SEBI. The said disclosures are available on the Company’s
website at - https://www.blinv.com/corporate.php

The particular of contract or arrangements with Related Parties referred to in sub-section (1) of Section
188 as required under Section 134(3)(h) of the Companies Act, 2013 in the prescribed Form AOC-2
is as under:

Form No. AOC-2

Form for disclosure of particulars of contracts/ arrangements entered into by the Company with related Parties referred to in sub-section (1) of section 188 of the Companies act, 2013 including

certain arm’s length transactions under fourth proviso thereto

(Pursuant to clause (h) of sub-section (3) of section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rule 8(2) of

the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014

Name of the Company - Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

1 ^[Details of contracts or arrangements or transactions not at arm’s length basis

NIL

2 [Details of material contracts or arrangements or transactions at arm’s length basis

NIL as per the Company’s policy on Materiality of Related Party Transaction

None of the transactions with Related Party can be considered as "material” as per the policy on -
Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions adopted by the
Company.

All contracts or arrangement entered into under Section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 has
been enumerated in details in Note no.31 of Standalone Financial Statements in compliance with the
applicable accounting standards, thereby forming part of the financial statement as on 31^st March, 2025.

Justification on the Related Party Transactions entered -

• In the year 2002, the Company for the purpose of infrastructure and management support entered
into a service contract with its subsidiary Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), since the Company does
not have any infrastructure arrangement or any employee. The said agreement is renewed from
time to time pursuant to which the Company receives services in nature of administration, finance,
taxation, legal, secretarial, etc. from BL.

• The Company was formed as a Special Purpose Vehicle with no regular business activity on
20^th September, 2001, with the sole objective of holding the Equity shares of BL, transferred/
de-merged from IBP Company Limited (under the scheme of Arrangement & Reconstruction);

• The major source of income of your Company is dividend earned from its subsidiary, BL.

• The Company has no employees of its own including the Company Secretary, who is seconded
from the subsidiary Company.

Particulars of Loans, Guarantees or Investments under Section 186 of the Companies Act, 2013

Details of investments made by the Company in other company is enumerated in Note 7 of Standalone
Financial Statement.

Auditors

The Statutory Auditors of your Company (being a ‘Government Company’), are appointed by the
Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) under Section 139 and other applicable provisions of
the Companies Act, 2013.

Pursuant to Section 142 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 the remuneration
of the Statutory Auditors as and when appointed for the FY 2025-26 is to be determined by the
Members at the ensuing 24^th Annual General Meeting.

Report of the statutory Auditor

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for FY ended 31^st March,
2025 does not have any reservation, qualification, adverse remark or disclaimer. Report of the
Statutory Auditors is attached with the Financial Statement.

The Statutory auditors have not reported any instance of fraud committed in the Company as stated
under sub-section (12) of Section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013. Under the ‘Key Audit Matters’ of

the statutory auditors report on the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company, attention has
been drawn to the "key audit matters” contained in the consolidated auditors report of the subsidiary
company i.e. Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., (audited by other auditor) which inter-alia contains reporting
regarding - Suspected fraud involving payments made to a vendor.

Comments of the Comptroller & Auditor General of india

The office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) have conducted a supplementary audit
of the financial statements of Balmer Lawrie Investment Limited for the year ended 31^st March, 2025
under Section 143(6)(a) of the Companies Act, 2013. In respect of the Standalone financial statement
of the Company, the CAG has commented that nothing significant has come to their knowledge
which would give rise to any comment upon or supplement to statutory auditor’s report under Section
143(6)(b) of the Companies Act, 2013.

In respect of Consolidated financial statement of the Company, the CAG has commented that they
conducted a supplementary audit of the financial statements of Balmer Lawrie Investments Limited
and its subsidiary Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited and Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited
but did not conduct supplementary audit of the financial statements of the subsidiaries, associate
companies and jointly controlled entities as detailed in Annexure to their said letter.

Further, CAG stated that Section 139(5) and 143(6)(a) of the Act are not applicable to the entities as
detailed in Annexure thereto, being private entities/entities incorporated in Foreign countries under
the respective laws, for appointment of their Statutory Auditor and for conduct of supplementary audit.
Accordingly, CAG has neither appointed the Statutory Auditors nor conducted the supplementary
audit of those companies.

The communication from the CAG in this regard is attached as Annexure-3A and Annexure- 3B.
Report of the secretarial auditor

The Board had appointed Shri Navin Kothari, (Membership No.- FCS: 5935 and Certificate of Practice
Number: 3725), Proprietor of M/s. N.K & Associates, Practicing Company Secretaries as Secretarial
Auditor for the FY 2024-2025 in compliance with the provisions of Section 204 of the Companies Act,
2013. The Report of Secretarial Auditor is annexed and marked as annexure-4.

Pursuant to Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Companies (Appointment and
Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014, Regulation 24A of the Listing Regulations and
other applicable statutory provisions framed in this regard and in line with the recommendation of
the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company, it is proposed to appoint M/s Minu
Tulsian & Co. Company Secretaries, a peer reviewed firm (Peer Review Certificate no. 1588/2021) as
the Secretarial Auditor of the Company for a term of 5 (five) consecutive years from FY 2025-26 to FY
2029-30 at the 24^th AGM of the Company.

The response of management with respect to the qualification/adverse remarks/ reservation/disclaimer
of the Secretarial Auditors in his report for FY 2024-25 is as under:

sl. No.	Observation/Comment/Qualification of the secretarial auditors	Clarification from the Management
1	The composition of the Board of Directors was not in compliance with the provision of second proviso to Section 149(1)(a) and Section 149(4) of the Companies Act, 2013, Regulation 17(1)(a), 17(1 )(b) and 17(1)(c) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Para 3.1.1 and 3.1.4 of the Guidelines during the period under review.	The Composition of the Board of Directors was dependent on appointments by the Administrative Ministry. The Company being a government company, the appointment of directors has to be done as per the directions of the administrative ministry and thus the non-compliance was due to reasons beyond the Company’s control. The Company had requested a waiver of fine from BSE Limited. However, no communication for waiver of the fines has yet been received from BSE Limited for the period under review.

si. No.	Observation/Comment/Qualification of the Secretarial Auditors	Clarification from the Management
2	The requirements pertaining to the quorum of Board Meeting as stipulated under Regulation 17(2A) of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 were not met during the period under review.
3	The composition of the Audit Committee of the Company was not in compliance with the provision of Section 177(2) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Regulations 18(1)(b) & Regulation 18(1) (d) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Para 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 of the Guidelines during the period under review.
4	The quorum requirements pertaining to Audit Committee as stipulated under Regulation 18(2)(b) of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Para 4.4 of the Guidelines to the extent of absence of Independent Directors were not met during the period under review.
5	The composition of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee was not in compliance with the provision of Section 178(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Regulation 19(1)(c) and Regulation 19(2) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Para 5.1 of the Guidelines during the period under review.
6	The quorum requirements pertaining to Nomination and Remuneration Committee as stipulated under Regulation 19(2A) of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 to the extent of absence of Independent Directors were not met during the period under review.

Sl. No.	Observation/Comment/Qualification of the Secretarial Auditors		Clarification from the Management
7	The composition of the Stakeholders
	Relationship Committee was not
	in	compliance with the provision
	of	Regulation 20(2A) of SEBI
	(Listing Obligations and Disclosure
	Requirements) Regulations, 2015
	during the period under review.
8	The Company had not appointed		The Company is a special purpose vehicle formed
	any Chief Financial Officer as per the		for a temporary purpose and does not carry out any
	provisions of Section 203(1 )(iii) of the		business other than holding shares of its subsidiary
	Companies Act, 2013 during the period		company. Hence, appointment of a whole time Chief
	under review.		Financial Officer is not feasible for the Company.

Adequacy of internal Financial Controls

The Company has inter-alia taken the following measures to ensure that an adequate internal financial
control exists:

- Appointment of Internal Auditor as per Section 138 read with Rule 13 of the Companies (Accounts)
Rules, 2014 as well as Secretarial Auditor as per Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013.

- The Company has adopted the following policies apart from the Code of Conduct applicable to the
Board Members and Senior Management and other policies enumerated earlier:

• "Code of Practices and Procedures for Fair Disclosure of Unpublished Price Sensitive
Information”;

• "Code of Conduct to Regulate, Monitor and Report Trading by Designated Persons and
immediate relative of Designated Persons” and

• "Vigil Mechanism/Whistle Blower Policy” of the Company.

The internal audit for FY 2024-2025 was carried out by M/S Bhattacharyya Roychaudhuri & Associates,
Chartered Accountants, and a detailed report thereof was submitted to the Board of Directors. In the
said internal audit report the auditor has not expressed any adverse remark or qualification.

In addition, the Company also follows the Guidelines on Capital Restructuring of Central Public Sector
Enterprises and also Guideline of the Department of Public Enterprises. The aforesaid policies are
available on the website of the Company.

Details of Significant and Material Orders passed by the Regulators or Courts or Tribunals
impacting the going concern status and Company’s operation in future

No significant or material orders were passed by the Regulators or Courts or Tribunals which may
have an impact on the going concern status and Company’s operations in future.

Vigilance Cases

No vigilance cases were reported, disposed of nor there are any such cases pending during the year.
Vigil Mechanism/Whistle Blower Policy

Your Company had adopted a Whistle Blower Policy on 10^th February, 2020. The details of the said
policy are given in the Corporate Governance Report 2024-25 and can be downloaded from the
following hyperlink of the Company’s website:

https://www.blinv.com/admin/uploads/Whistle Blower policy.pdf

Compliance of the provisions related to the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961

The Company has no employees of its own. Thus the provisions related to the Maternity Benefit Act
1961 does not seem to be applicable to the Company.

Constitution of internal Committee

The Company has no employees of its own. The requirement for constituting an Internal Committee
under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act,
2013 did not arise.

(a) number of complaints of sexual harassment received in the year - NiL

(b) number of complaints disposed off during the year - ML

(c) number of cases pending for more than ninety days - ML

Details in terms of Section 22 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention,
Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013-

a) Number of complaints filed during the calendar year 2024- nil

b) Number of complaints disposed off during the calendar year 2024 - nil

c) Number of complaints pending as on end of the calendar year 2024 - nil
maintenance of Cost Records

The requirement of maintenance of cost records is not applicable to your Company.

Procurement from msmEs as per Public Procurement Policy for micro and small Enterprises
(MsEs) Order, 2012

The Company is formed for temporary purpose and is not having any business and hence the Company
has neither had taken any target nor made any procurement from MSMEs during the FY 2024-2025.

Annual Return and Weblink

In terms of Section 92 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rules made thereunder, the Company
shall place a copy of the Annual Return (MGT-7) for FY 2024-2025 on the website of the Company
after filing the same with Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The Company has already placed a copy of the
Annual Return for FY 2023-24 on the website of the Company, link of which is:
https://www.blinv.com/admin/uploads/Form MGT7 23 24.pdf

Compliance with secretarial standards

The Company is compliant of the Secretarial Standard-1 and Secretarial Standard-2 issued by the
Institute of Company Secretaries of India, which are mandatory.

Business Responsibility Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity except to hold the equity shares of Balmer
Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under Business Responsibility Report are
not applicable to your Company.

Details of application made or any proceeding pending under the insolvency and Bankruptcy
Code, 2016 (31 of 2016) during the year along with their status as at the end of the financial
year (FY).

Not Applicable

details of difference between amount of the valuation done at the time of one time settlement
and the valuation done while taking loan from the Banks or Financial institutions along with
the reasons thereof

Not applicable

Acknowledgement

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support
extended by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas and other Ministries. Your Directors also
acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., its subsidiary.
Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the Members of the Company.

Registered Office: On behalf of Board of:

21, Netaji Subhas Road, Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

Kolkata-700001

[Saurav Dutta] [Samir Kumar Mohanty]
Director director

Date: 13^th August, 2025 (DIN 10042140) (DIN 10404198)

1

The Board''s Report is based on standalone Financial Statements of the Company and this information
is given as an added information to the Members.

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Mar 31, 2024

Your Directors have the pleasure in presenting the 23^rd Annual Report of the Company along with the audited Financial Statement (both Standalone and Consolidated) for the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2024 and other allied Statements/Disclosures as required as per the applicable statute.

Overview of the State of the Company’s Affairs

Your Company’s performance is primarily dependent upon two factors, one, being the dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and the other being the interest received from deployment of short term surplus funds with Scheduled Commercial Banks.

During the year under review, i.e., 2023-24, there was an increase in interest income and dividend income of the Company and accordingly, the total income of your Company increased by around Rs. 1264.77 Lakhs as compared to the last Financial Year, i.e., 2022-23. The amount of dividend income received from the subsidiary during the financial year under review was at an enhanced rate.

The summary of comparative annual financial results for the financial year under review, i.e., 2023-24 as against the immediately preceding Financial Year, i.e., 2022-23, has been furnished below:

Financial Summary

(Rs. in Lakh)

Particulars	Financial Year ended 31st March, 2024	Financial Year ended 31st march, 2023
Profit before Tax	8780.81	7,516.11
Less: Tax Expense	219.16	174.18
Net Profit	8561.65	7,341.93

Transfer to reserves

The Board of Directors have decided not to transfer any amount to reserves. share Capital

The paid-up Equity Share Capital of the Company as on 31^st March, 2024 stood at Rs.22,19,72,690/-(at same value in the previous year). During the year under review, the Company has not issued any shares with differential voting rights nor has granted any stock options or sweat equity shares.

It may be pertinent to mention that the Board in its meeting dated 28^th May, 2024 had reviewed the compliance of Guidelines on Capital Restructuring of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) bearing reference no. - F. No. 5/2/2016-Policy dated 27^th May, 2016 (Guidelines’) for the Financial Year 2023-2024. In respect of same the Market value of the shares of the Company as on 28^th March, 2024 (being the last trading day of the FY 2023-24) and 16^th May, 2024 were Rs. 611.15/- and Rs. 837.05/- respectively, which exceeded 50 times of its face value and attracted the requirement of Splitting/Sub-Dividing the Equity shares of the Company.

In furtherance of same the Board had at its meeting dated 28^th May, 2024, recommended to split/ subdivide the equity shares of the Company from the face value of Rs.10 each fully paid-up to the face value of Re.1 each face value fully paid-up and subsequently amended the capital clause of Memorandum of Association and Article of Association of the Company. The aforesaid proposal of the Board was approved by the Shareholders by way of Postal Ballot dated 10^th July, 2024.

Post splitting/Sub-division of the Equity shares of the Company the Authorized share capital of the Company changed from 10,00,00,000 (Ten Crores) equity shares of Rs. 10/- each to 100,00,00,000 (One Hundred Crores) equity shares of Re. 1/- each and the Issued, Subscribed and Paid-up Equity Shares capital of the Company changed from 22197269 (Two Crore Twenty One Lakhs Ninety Seven thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Nine) equity shares of Rs. 10/- each fully paid-up to 221972690

(Twenty Two Crores Nineteen Lakhs Seventy Two Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety) equity shares Re. 1/- each fully paid -up respectively.

Dividend

The Board at its meeting held on 28^th May, 2024 had recommend a dividend of 380%, i.e., Rs. 38 (Rupees Thirty-Eight Only) per equity share of Rs.10/- each fully paid-up for the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2024. Thereafter, consequent to the Splitting of Equity shares of the Company from the face value of Rs. 10/- each to the face value of Re. 1/- each, the Board of Directors at its meeting held on 8^th August, 2024 had noted that the per share rate of final dividend stood revised at Rs. 3.80/- (Rupees Three and Eighty Paisa) per Equity Share for the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2024 on the 22,19,72,690 Equity Shares of Re.1/- (Rupee One) each fully paid up. The change in the rate of Final Dividend for the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2024 did not tantamount to any change in overall payout of dividend amount for the year.

The dividend, if declared by the shareholders at the ensuing 23^rd Annual General Meeting (AGM), will be paid either by way of warrant, demand draft or electronic mode and will be paid to those Shareholders who would be holding shares of the Company as on the cut-off date fixed for the purpose

i.e., 19^th September, 2024 (End of Day), within 30 days from the date of such declaration. In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as per details to be furnished by their respective Depositories, i.e., either Central Depository Services (India) Limited or National Securities Depository Limited as on 19^th September, 2024 (End of Day) fixed as cut-off date for the purpose. The dividend to be paid shall be subject to Tax deducted at source and other applicable provisions of Income Tax Act, 1961.

Appropriation

The amount available for appropriations for the Financial Year 2023-24 as compared to the immediately preceding Financial Year 2022-23 are given hereunder:

(Rs. in Lakh)

	standalone financial results		consolidated financial results1
Particulars	2023-24	2022-23	2023-24	2022-23
Profit After Tax	8561.65	7341.93	26375.49	17236.27
Add: Transfer from Profit & Loss Account	8089.46	7406.71	77487.34	74883.25
Total amount available for Appropriation	16651.11	14748.64	103862.83	92119.52
appropriations:
Dividend paid @ 330%, in Financial Year 2023-2024 and @ 300% paid in Financial Year 2022-23	7325.10	6659.18	7325.10	6659.18
Corporate Tax on Dividend	-	-	-	-
Transfer to General Reserve	-	-	-	-
Other adjustment	-	-	11105.14	7973.00
Minority interest / Foreign Exchange Conversion Reserve etc.	-	-		-
Surplus carried forward to next year	9326.01	8089.46	85432.59	77487.34
Total of Appropriations	16651.11	14748.64	103862.83	92119.52

DIVIDEND DISTRIBUTION POLICY

As per market capitalization of the Company as on 31^st March, 2023, it was not falling under top 1000 listed entities. Accordingly, formulation of Dividend Distribution Policy as per regulation 43A of SEBI LODR was not applicable to the Company for financial year 2023-24. However, the Company is governed by the guidelines of Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, on capital restructuring of Central Public Sector Undertakings dated 27^th May, 2016 which contains detailed provisions regarding payment dividend. The said guidelines are available on the website of the Company at the following link:

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/guidelines-on-capital-restructuring-of-

cpse-27-05-2016.pdf

MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS AFFECTING THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE COMPANY OCCURRED BETWEEN THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR AND THE DATE OF THE REPORT

There have been no material changes and commitments affecting the Financial Position of the Company occurred between the end of the financial year and the date of the report.

Deposits with Bank

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in various Fixed Deposit Schemes of the Scheduled Commercial Banks. As on 31^st March 2024, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit Schemes was Rs. 14,473.44 Lakh, which in turn has yielded an interest income of Rs. 944.69 Lakh during the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2024 (as against interest income of Rs. 738.80 Lakh for the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2023).

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity except, to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly, matters to be covered under ‘Management Discussion and Analysis Report’ are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies and their contribution to the overall performance of the Company during the year

In terms of Section 2(87) of the Companies Act, 2013 (‘the Act’), your Company has two subsidiaries, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (‘BL’), and Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (‘VPLPL’). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.80%), your Company is the holding Company of BL. BL in turn has one subsidiary VPLPL.

The Company has a "Policy for determining material subsidiaries” in terms of the amended Listing Regulations. The policy may be accessed on the Company’s website at:

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/Policy on determining material subsidiaries amended.pdf

As per the aforesaid policy, none of its subsidiaries appear to be an unlisted material subsidiary of the Company.

As stated earlier, the major income of the Company is the dividend received from the Subsidiary-Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. During FY 2023-24 the dividend income from Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. was Rs.7925.95 Lakhs.

A brief write up about the Subsidiaries inter-alia reporting about its performance and financial position and other significant events is presented hereunder:

Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL)

BL recorded a net turnover of Rs. 2,40,416.53 Lakh during Financial Year 2023-24 as against Rs. 2,38,309.16 Lakh in 2022-23 registering an increase of approximately 0.88% over the last year.

It also recorded a Profit Before Tax of Rs. 27,865.34 Lakh in Financial Year 2023-24 as against

Rs. 21,130.23 Lakh in Financial Year 2022-23. The increase was attributable to remarkable performance by all the manufacturing verticals as well as Travel vertical. While a dividend of Rs. 7925.95 Lakhs was received from BL during the FY 2023-24. BL’s Board of directors have recommended a dividend of Rs. 8.50 per equity share for Financial Year 2023-24. In view of the same a dividend of Rs. 8982.74 Lakhs is expected to be received in the FY 2024-25.

Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (VPLPL)

Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Ltd. (referred to as ‘the JVC) was incorporated on 24^th July 2014 under the Companies Act, 2013, with a 60:40 equity contribution between its joint venture partners, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and Visakhapatnam Port Authority, respectively.

The JVC operates a dynamic Multimodal Logistics Hub (MMLH) in Visakhapatnam, which serves as a cornerstone of its operations. This state-of-the-art facility includes:

- A Container Freight Station (CFS) designed to handle EXIM cargo efficiently.

- An open yard storage facility providing ample space for diverse cargo types.

- Two warehouses (EXIM and Domestic) that enhances operational efficiency through automation.

- A temperature-controlled storage solution offering frozen and chilled chambers capable of handling 3,780 pallets for both EXIM and Domestic cargo.

- The facility is well-connected with a 1.30 KM. Rail Siding, allowing it to handle up to 4 rakes per day, thus ensuring seamless transportation logistics.

The MMLH caters to both bonded and non-bonded cargo and offers value-added services such as customs clearance, sorting, grading, aggregation, disaggregation, and freight handling.

The MMLH project was chosen to be developed in Visakhapatnam, due to the presence of Natural Port, which acts as a gateway to the vast industrial market of the far-east countries. Visakhapatnam is the industrial nerve centre of Andhra Pradesh, which has a convenient rail, road and inland waterways connectivity for easy movements of the cargo. The MMLH in Visakhapatnam is located close to the vicinity of two ports, viz., Visakhapatnam Container Terminal (VCT) and Gangavaram Port. VCT is an ideal gateway of container traffic from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. This terminal has a natural water depth of 16 meters, a state of art container handling infrastructure and have a decent growth year on year with a CAGR of 19% since inception with further plans for expansion.

The CFS business segment, which commenced operations on 2^nd March 2023, has emerged as a pivotal component of the JVC’s portfolio. During the financial year 2023-24, the CFS handled an impressive 7580 TEUs of export cargo and 6099 TEUs of import cargo, generating an additional revenue of Rs. 1223 lakhs, a substantial increase from Rs. 12 lakhs, earned in the previous financial year 2022-23. This remarkable growth underscores the CFS segment’s critical role in driving the MMLH’s success.

The starting of the CFS operations has necessitated reservation of 45% of the mechanised warehouse, 68% of the open yard and 5 (five) frozen chambers of the Temperature Controlled Warehouse (TCW) for EXIM requirements. This has resulted in lower turnover from mechanised warehousing, open yard and TCW operations during the financial year 2023-24 amounting to Rs. 200 lakhs, Rs. 354 lakhs and Rs. 359 lakhs, respectively, as against corresponding figures of Rs. 328 lakhs, 436 lakhs and Rs. 419 lakhs, earned during the previous financial year 2022-23. The available areas for the above businesses functioned at a higher capacity utilization, compared to the previous financial year 202223, except, TCW, where the capacity utilization dropped by 10%.

The Rail Siding business managed to handle 40 rakes, generating a revenue of Rs. 24 lakhs as against Rs. 40 lakhs earned during the previous financial year 2022-23, reflecting steady operational capability. The fall in revenue of rail siding business was due to fall in export of steel and aluminium, due to change in export policy.

Overall, the JVC has earned a total revenue Rs. 2191 lakhs in FY 2023-24 and incurred a loss of Rs.1038.55 Lakhs.

The outlook for the current financial year is promising, with the addition of new customers in the CFS operations. The rail siding business has shown significant improvement, by handling 22 rakes during the first quarter of the financial year 2024-25. The CFS operations also handled 3402 TEUs of export cargo and 2656 TEUs of import cargo during the first quarter of the financial year 2024-25, generating a revenue of Rs. 525 lakhs for CFS segment alone. The company is poised for better performance in the financial year 2024-25.

Financial Statements of Subsidiary Companies

The Financial Statements and Results of your Company have been duly consolidated with its Subsidiaries, Associates and Joint Ventures pursuant to applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 & the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 (as amended), the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirement) Regulations, 2015 and the applicable Indian Accounting Standards (Ind-AS).

Further, in line with first proviso to Section 129(3) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Rules thereon, Consolidated Financial Statements prepared by your Company includes a separate Statement in Form ‘AOC-1’ containing the salient features of the Financial Statement of your Company’s Subsidiaries, Associates & Joint Ventures (as applicable) which forms part of the Annual Report.

However, separate audited accounts in respect of each of its subsidiary is placed on the website of the Company - https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/subsidiary.php . Further, a copy of separate audited financial statements in respect of each of the subsidiary shall be provided on requisition by any shareholder of the Company in writing.

Cessation/Change in Joint Ventures/ Subsidiaries/ Associate Companies during the Year

During Financial Year 2023-24, there were no cessation / changes in Joint Ventures / Subsidiaries/ Associate Companies of the Company.

Deposits

Your Company has neither accepted nor was holding any deposits from the public during the Financial Year 2023-24 and accordingly no deposit remained unpaid or unclaimed at the end of Financial Year and there was no instance of default in repayment of deposits or interests thereon during the Financial Year and there were NIL deposits which were not in compliance with the requirements of Chapter V of the Companies Act, 2013. Further, the Company shall not be accepting any deposits in Financial Year 2024-25.

Compliance of Right to Information (RTI) act, 2005

Information, which are mandatorily required to be disclosed under the RTI Act 2005 have been disclosed on the website of your Company. The report on receipt and disposal of RTI applications during the Financial Year 2023-24 is as under: ²

Particulars	Opening Balance as on 01.04.2023	received during the Year (including cases transferred to other Public authority)	No. of cases transferred to other Public authorities	decisions where request/ appeals rejected	decisions where requests/ appeals accepted	Closing balance as on 31.03.2024
(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)
Requests	0	4	1	0	3	0
First Appeals	0	0	0	0	0	0

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Since, the Company does not have any business other than to hold shares of its subsidiary Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. the reporting of Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption as per Rule 8(3) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is not applicable for your Company.

The details pertaining to Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo are enumerated as under: NIL

Risk Management Policy

The Company does not have any business apart from holding the shares of its subsidiary- Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and is a Special Purpose Vehicle formed for temporary purpose. As per further amendment of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirement) Regulations w.e.f. 7^th September, 2021, the provisions pertaining to the Risk Management Committee turned inapplicable for the Company.

It may be pertinent to mention that the Company being a special purpose vehicle, and as stated above, it does not carry out any business other than holding 61.80% equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd..

Corporate social responsibility (CsR)

Annual Report on CsR Activities

1. Brief outline on CsR Policy of the Company

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Susstainability Policy of the Company is as under: Philosophy

The Policy is in the nature of initiatives or endeavour which the key stakeholders expect of the Company in the discharge of their Corporate Social Responsibility. It reflects the willingness of the Company to voluntarily take a few extra steps to address social, economic and environmental concerns but are nevertheless worthy of attention for promotion of sustainable development in its diverse dimensions.

Activities to be undertaken

It is the policy of the Company to undertake any activity which is permissible to be carried out towards CSR as per:

1) Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 (the act) and the allied Rules, including any statutory amendment thereof,

2) The guidelines formulated by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on CSR and Sustainability (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Guidelines’) which are applicable to CPSEs.

implementation

The Company shall endeavour to implement activities/programs as per the CSR Policy keeping in view:

1) the constraints faced due to the form and nature of organisation.

2) the administrative and incidental cost are minimum so that the maximum expenditure so allocated is spent for the benefit of the society.

CsR Expenditure

CSR expenditure will include all expenditure, direct and indirect, incurred by the Company on CSR Activities/ Programmes undertaken in accordance with the approved CSR Plan.

Any surplus arising from any CSR Activities/Programmes shall be used for CSR. Accordingly, any

income arising from CSR Programmes will be netted off from the CSR expenditure and such net amount will be reported as CSR expenditure.

The CSR Policy of the Company is available on the website of the Company at: https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/CSR and Sustainability Policy.pdf

2. Composition of CSR Committee as on 31^st March, 2024

The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Company consisted of the following Members as on 31^st March, 2024:

Sl. No.	name of Director	designation / nature of directorship	number of meeting of CsR Committee held during the year	number of meeting of CsR Committee attended during the year
1	Shri Saurav Dutta	Non-Executive Director (Ex-Officio) - Chairman	1	1
2	Shri Arvind Nath Jha*	Government Nominee Director - Member	1	1
3	Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty**	Government Nominee Director - Member	1	1

Shri Mrityunjay Jha and Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty, Government Nominee Directors had ceased to be the Directors of the Company and Committee Members w.e.f. 18^th October, 2023 and 7^th December, 2023 respectively.

* Shri Arvind Nath Jha, Additional Director in the category of Government Nominee Director was appointed as the Member of the Committee w.e.f. 9^th November, 2023

** Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty, Additional Director in the category of Government Nominee Director was appointed as the Member of the Committee w.e.f. 7^th December, 2023

3. The web-link where Composition of CSR committee, CSR Policy approved by the board are disclosed on the website of the company.

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/abt.php

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/CSR and Sustainability Policy.pdf

Since the Company makes the CSR Expenditure by way of contribution to permissible Funds as per Schedule VII to the Companies Act, 2013, there are no CSR projects, perse to be enumerated on its website.

4. Provide the executive summary along with web-link(s) of impact Assessment of CsR Projects carried out in pursuance of sub-rule (3) of rule 8, if applicable - Not Applicable.

5. (a) Average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135. - Rs. 591.06 Lakhs.

(b) Two percent of average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135. - Rs. 11.82 Lakhs.

(c) Surplus arising out of the CSR Projects or programmes or activities of the previous financial years. - Nil.

(d) Amount required to be set-off for the financial year, if any. - Nil.

(e) Total CSR obligation for the financial year [(b) (c)-(d)]. - Rs. 11.82 Lakhs

6. (a) Amount spent on CSR projects (both Ongoing Project and other than Ongoing Project). -Rs. 11.82 Lakhs

(b) Amount spent in Administrative overheads. - Nil

(c) Amount spent on Impact Assessment, if applicable. - Not Applicable

(d) Total amount spent for the Financial Year [(a) (b) (c)]. - Rs. 11.82 Lakhs

	amount Unspent (in Rs.)
Total amount spent for the Financial Year. (in Rs.)	Total amount transferred to Unspent CsR account as per sub-section (6) of section 135.			amount transferred to any fund specified under schedule Vii as per second proviso to sub-section (5) of section 135.
11.82 Lakhs	Amount:	Date of transfer:	Name of the Fund:	Amount:	Date of transfer:
	Nil	-	-	Nil	-

(f) Excess amount for set-off, if any:

sl. No.	Particular	amount (Rs. /Lakhs)
(1)	(2)	(3)
(i)	Two percent of average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135	11.82
(ii)	Total amount spent for the Financial Year	11.82
(iii)	Excess amount spent for the Financial Year [(ii)-(i)]	-
(iv)	Surplus arising out of the CSR projects or programmes or activities of the previous Financial Years, if any	-
(v)	Amount available for set off in succeeding Financial Years [(iii)-(iv)]	-

7. Details of Unspent Corporate Social Responsibility amount for the preceding three Financial Years: Nil

sl. No.	Preceding Financial Year(s)	amount transferred to Unspent CsR account under sub-section (6) of section 135 (in Rs.)	Balance amount in Unspent CsR account under sub-section (6) of section 135 (in Rs.)	amount spent in the Financial Year (in Rs)	amount transferred to a Fund as specified under schedule VII as per second proviso to sub-section (5) of section 135, if any		amount remaining to be spent in succeeding Financial Years (in Rs)	Deficiency, if any
					amount (in Rs)	date of transfer
1	Financial Year-1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Financial Year-2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	Financial Year-3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

8. Whether any capital assets have been created or acquired through Corporate social responsibility amount spent in the Financial Year: No

If Yes, enter the number of Capital assets created/ acquired

Furnish the details relating to such asset(s) so created or acquired through Corporate social responsibility amount spent in the Financial Year

sl. No.	short particulars of the property or asset(s)	Pin code of the property or asset(s)	date of creation	amount of CsR amount spent	details of entity/ authority/ beneficiary of the registered owner
					CsR Registration number, if applicable	name	Registered address
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

9. Specify the reason(s), if the company has failed to spend two per cent of the average net profit as per sub-section (5) of section 135. - Not Applicable

shri saurav dutta shri Arvind Nath Jha

Chairperson of CsR Committee Member of CsR Committee

(DIN: 10042140) (DIN: 10384829)

Directors’ Responsibility Statement

In terms of provisions of Section 134(3)(c) &134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 your Board of Directors to the best of their knowledge and ability confirm that:

(i) in the preparation of the annual accounts for the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2024, the applicable accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanations and there were no material departures;

(ii) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that were 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 ended 31^st March, 2024 and of the profit and loss of the Company for that period;

(iii) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provision of the Act, for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

(iv) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts for the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2024 on a going concern basis;

(v) the Directors had laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and that such internal financial controls are adequate and were operating effectively;

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

Corporate Governance

Your Company has been consistently complying with the various Regulations, Circulars and Guidelines of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as well as of Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) to the extent under the control of the Company.

Pursuant to the said SEBI Regulations and DPE Guidelines, a separate section titled ‘Corporate Governance Report’ is being furnished and marked as ‘Annexure-1’.

The provisions on Corporate Governance under DPE Guidelines which do not exist in the SEBI Guidelines and also do not contradict any of the provisions of the SEBI Regulations are also complied with.

Further, your Company’s Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of conditions of Corporate Governance and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as ‘Annexure-2’.

Directors & Key Managerial Personnel (KMP) and meetings of the Board during the year

Directors and Key Managerial Personnel

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As on 31 March, 2024, the Board of your Company consisted of the following three Directors:

a. Shri Saurav Dutta, Non-Executive Director (Ex-officio member), Non- Independent Director, Chairperson.

b. Shri Arvind Nath Jha, Additional Director in the category of Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director.

c. Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty, Additional Director in the category of Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director.

The Company has only one KMP, i.e., Company Secretary. The Company does not have any MD/ Whole time director or CFO.

The Company being a Central Public Sector Enterprise, the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG), being the administrative Ministry directs the Company every time there is a change in appointment of Directors is required.

The details of the meetings of the Board held during the year have been enumerated in the Corporate Governance Report marked as ‘Annexure - 1’.

Directors retired/appointed/resigned during the year

Appointments during the year:

1. Shri Arvind Nath Jha (DIN: 10384829) was appointed as an Additional Director in the category of Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director of the Company with effect from 9^th November, 2023 as per applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and allied Rules vide Board Resolution dated 9^th November, 2023 in line with letter bearing reference No. CA- 31032/1/2021-PNG-37493 dated 18^th October, 2023 as received from the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India and subject to approval by the Shareholder in the ensuing Annual General Meeting of the Company pursuant to the Listing Regulation in line with the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

2. Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty (DIN: 10404198) was appointed as an Additional Director in the category of Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director of the Company with effect from 7^th December, 2023 as per applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and allied Rules vide Resolution by Circulation passed by the Board of Directors on 12^th December, 2023, in line with letter bearing reference No. CA- 31032/1/2021-PNG-37493 dated 7^th December, 2023 as received from the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India and subject to approval by the Shareholder in the ensuing Annual General Meeting of the Company pursuant to the Listing Regulations, in line with the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

At the 22^nd Annual general Meeting of the Company held on 27^th September, 2023, the following directors were appointed/reappointed-

1. Shri Mrityunjay Jha, Government Nominee Director, who retire by rotation, was reappointed.

2. Shri Saurav Dutta was appointed as Non-Executive Director (Ex-Officio) with effect from 14^th February, 2023 for a period of five years from the date of his assumption of charge of the post of Director (Finance), Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. or till the date of superannuation, or until further orders from the Administrative Ministry, whichever is earliest.

Cessation

1. As per Office Memorandum bearing reference no.- CA-31032/1/2021-PNG-37493 dated 18^th October, 2023 received from the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, being the Administrative Ministry, the directorship of Shri Mrityunjay Jha (DIN: 08483795) as Non - Executive Government Nominee Director of the Company ceased with effect from 18^th October, 2023 owing to withdrawal of nomination of Shri Mrityunjay Jha as the Non - Executive Government Nominee Director of the Company by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, being the Administrative Ministry .

2. As per Office Memorandum bearing reference no.- CA-31032/1/2021-PNG-37493 dated 7^th December, 2023 received from the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, being the Administrative Ministry, the directorship of Shri Shyam Singh Mahar (DIN: 08511166) as Non -Executive Government Nominee Director of the Company ceased with effect from 7^th December, 2023 owing to withdrawal of nomination of Shri Shyam Singh Mahar as the Non - Executive Government Nominee Director of the Company by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, being the Administrative Ministry .

Details relating to Remuneration of Directors, Key Managerial Personnel and employees

Your Company being a Government Company, vide notification no. GSR 463(E) dated 5^th June, 2015 as amended by Notification No. GSR 582(E) dated 13^th June, 2017 and Notification No. GSR 802(E) dated 23^rd February, 2018, and GSR 151(E) dated 2^nd March, 2020 has been exempted from the

applicability of Section 134(3)(e) and Section 197 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Company does not pay any sitting fee to any directors except Independent Directors. Further, the Company does not have any employee of its own other than the Company Secretary, who is seconded to the Company from its subsidiary pursuant to the service agreement.

Board Evaluation and Criteria for evaluation

Your Company, being a Government Company - vide Notification No. GSR 463(E) dated 5^th June, 2015 as amended by Notification No. GSR 582(E) dated 13^th June, 2017 and Notification No. GSR 802(E) dated 23^rd February, 2018, and GSR 151(E) dated 2^nd March, 2020 has been exempted from applicability of section 134(3)(p) and 178(2), (3) and (4) of the Companies Act, 2013.

As the appointment of directors of the Company (including the Independent Directors) is done as per the direction of the administrative ministry, the Board is not in a position to form an opinion with regard to the aspects stated in Rule 8(5)(iii)(a) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.

Declaration by independent Director

Your Company does not have an Independent Director as on Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2024. Audit Committee

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The Committee as of 31 March, 2024 consisted of 3 Members and all of them, including the Chairperson of the Committee, were Non-Executive Directors.

As of 31 March, 2024, the following were the Members of the Committee:

Names	Position held
Shri Arvind Nath Jha, Non-Executive - Government Nominee Director*	Chairperson
Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty, Non-Executive - Government Nominee Director **	Member
Shri Saurav Dutta, Non-Executive Director (Ex-Officio)	Member

Shri Mrityunjay Jha, Government Nominee Directors had ceased to be the Directors of the Company and Chairman of the Committee w.e.f. 18^th October, 2023.

Shri Shyam Singh Mahar, Government Nominee Directors had ceased to be the Directors of the Company and Member of the Committee w.e.f. 7^th December, 2023.

* Shri Arvind Nath Jha, Additional Director in the category of Government Nominee Director was appointed as the Chairman of the Committee w.e.f. 9^th November, 2023

** Shri Samir Kumar Mohanty, Additional Director in the category of Government Nominee Director was appointed as the Member of the Committee w.e.f. 7^th December, 2023

All the Members of the Audit Committee are financially literate and some Members possess accounting/ financial management expertise also. The Company Secretary acts as the Secretary to this Committee.

There were no such instances where the Board had not accepted any recommendation of the Audit Committee.

Related Party Transactions

As per Regulation 23 (5) of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, sub regulations (2), (3) and (4) of Regulation 23 of the said Regulations shall not apply to transactions entered into between two government companies.

Further, there were no materially significant RPT during the year under review made by the Company with Directors, Key Managerial Personnel or other designated persons which have a potential conflict with the interest of the Company at large. Furthermore, no material related party transaction was entered into by the Company as per the applicable provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and the Related Party Transaction Policy adopted by the Company.

Your Company had adopted a policy on "Related Party Transactions” with effect from 28^th March, 2015. The said Policy was last amended w.e.f. 1^st April, 2022 vide Board Resolution dated 11^th February, 2022 to bring it in line with the amendment in the provisions of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and has been uploaded on the website of the Company and is available on the following link:

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/5%20Related%20Party%20Transactions.pdf

The said policy lays down a procedure to ensure that transactions by and between the Related Parties and the Company are properly identified, reviewed and duly approved & disclosed in accordance with the applicable laws. The Policy also sets out materiality thresholds for Related Party Transactions and the material modifications thereof, as required under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.

Particulars of contracts and arrangements entered into by the Company with Related Parties referred to in section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013, including certain arm’s length transaction under third proviso thereto.

Form No. AOC-2

1. Details of contracts and arrangements or transactions not at arm’s length basis - NIL. All the contracts and arrangements or transactions with Related Parties during the year ended 31^st March, 2024 were on arm’s length basis.

2. Details of material contracts or arrangement or transactions at arm’s length basis - NIL. None of the transactions with Related Party can be considered as "material” as per the policy on -Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions adopted by the Company.

All contracts or arrangement entered into under Section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 has been enumerated in details in Note no.31 of Standalone Financial Statements in compliance with the applicable accounting standards, thereby forming part of the financial statement as on 31^st March, 2024.

Justification on the Related Party Transactions entered -

• In the year 2002, the Company for the purpose of infrastructure and management support entered into a service contract with its subsidiary Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), since the Company does not have any infrastructure arrangement or any employee. The said agreement is renewed from time to time pursuant to which the Company receives services in nature of administration, finance, taxation, legal, secretarial, etc. from BL.

• The Company was formed as a Special Purpose Vehicle with no regular business activity on 20 September, 2001, with the sole objective of holding the Equity shares of BL, transferred / demerged from IBP Company Limited (under the scheme of Arrangement & Reconstruction);

• The major source of income of your Company is dividend earned from its subsidiary, BL.

• The Company has no employees of its own including the Company Secretary, who is seconded from the subsidiary Company.

Particulars of Loans, Guarantees or Investments under section 186 of the Companies act, 2013

Details of investments made by the Company in other company is enumerated in Note 7 of Standalone Financial Statement.

auditors

The Statutory Auditors of your Company (being a ‘Government Company’), are appointed by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) under Section 139 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.

Pursuant to Section 142 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 the remuneration of the Statutory Auditors as and when appointed for the financial year 2024-25 is to be determined by the Members at the ensuing 23^rd Annual General Meeting.

Report of the Statutory Auditor

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2024 does not have any reservation, qualification, adverse remark or disclaimer. Report of the Statutory Auditors is attached with the Financial Statement.

Comments of the Comptroller & Auditor General of india

The office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) had conducted the supplementary audit of the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31^st March, 2024. In respect of the Standalone financial statement and Consolidated financial statement of the Company, the CAG has commented that nothing significant has come to their knowledge which would give rise to any comment upon or supplement to statutory auditor’s report under Section 143(6)(b) of the Companies Act, 2013. The communication from the CAG in this regard is attached as ‘Annexure-3A’ and ‘Annexure- 3B’.

Further, CAG stated that Section 139(5) and 143(6)(a) of the Act are not applicable to the entities as detailed in Annexure thereto, being private entities / entities incorporated in Foreign countries under the respective laws, for appointment of their Statutory Auditor and for conduct of supplementary audit. Accordingly, CAG has neither appointed the Statutory Auditors nor conducted the supplementary audit of those companies.

report of the secretarial Auditor

The Board had appointed Miss Binita Pandey, (Membership No.- ACS: 41594 and Certificate of Practice Number: 19730), Partner of M/s. T Chatterjee & Associates, Practicing Company Secretaries as Secretarial Auditor for the Financial Year 2023-2024 in compliance with the provisions of Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Report of Secretarial Auditor is annexed and marked as ‘Annexure-4’.

The response of management with respect to the qualification/ adverse remarks/ reservation/ disclaimer of the Secretarial Auditors is as under:

sl. No.	Observation /Comment/ Qualification of the secretarial Auditors	Clarification from the Management
1	The composition of the Board was not in compliance with the provision of Section 149(1)(a) during the period from 18th October, 2023 to 8th November, 2023 (no transaction was carried out by the Board of Directors during such period), second proviso to Section 149(1) and 149(4) of the Companies Act, 2013, Regulation 17(1)(a), 17(1)(b) and 17(1)(c) of the SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Para 3.1.1, 3.1.4 of the Guidelines.	We are a Government Company and as is evident from our shareholding pattern, President of India has a majority shareholding in our Company. As per the Articles of Association of the Company so long as the Company remains a Government Company, the President of India shall be entitled to appoint one or more person(s) to hold office as Director(s) on the Board and also to appoint one or more such Director(s) as Managing or Whole-time Director(s) of the Company. Accordingly, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG), being the administrative Ministry directs the Company every time there is a change in appointment of Directors is required. The direction of MOP&NG is awaited in this regard. Accordingly, the said non-compliance were for reasons beyond the control of the Company.

si. No.	Observation /Comment/ Qualification of the Secretarial Auditors	Clarification from the Management
2	The quorum requirements pertaining to the quorum of Board Meeting as stipulated under Regulation 17(2A) of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 were not met during the period under review.
3	The composition of the Audit Committee was not in compliance with the provision of Section 177(2) and Regulation 18(1) of the SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, and Para 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 of the Guidelines during the period under review.
4	The quorum requirements pertaining to Audit Committee as stipulated under Regulation 18(2)(b) of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Para 4.4 of the Guidelines were not met during the period under review.
5	The composition of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee was not in compliance with the provision of Section 178(1) and Regulation 19(1) and Regulation 19(2) of the SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Para 5.1 of the Guidelines during the period under review.
6	The quorum requirements pertaining to Nomination and Remuneration Committee as stipulated under Regulation 19(2A) of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 were not met during the period under review.
7	The composition of the Stakeholder and Relationship Committee was not in compliance with the provision of Regulation 20(2A) of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 during the period under review.

Sl. No.	Observation /Comment/ Qualification of the Secretarial Auditors	Clarification from the Management
8	The Company had not appointed any Chief Financial Officer as per the provisions of Section 203 of the Companies Act, 2013 during the period under review.	The Company is a special purpose vehicle formed for a temporary purpose and does not carry out any business other than holding shares of its subsidiary company. Hence, appointment of a wholetime Chief Financial Officer is not feasible for the Company.

Adequacy of internal Financial Controls

The Company has inter-alia taken the following measures to ensure that an adequate internal financial control exists:

- Appointment of Internal Auditor as per Section 138 read with Rule 13 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 as well as Secretarial Auditor as per Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013.

- The Company has adopted the following policies apart from the Code of Conduct applicable to the Board Members and Senior Management and other policies enumerated earlier:

• "Code of Practices and Procedures for Fair Disclosure of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information”;

• "Code of Conduct to Regulate, Monitor and Report Trading by Designated Persons and immediate relative of Designated Persons” and

• "Vigil Mechanism/ Whistle Blower Policy” of the Company.

The internal audit for Financial Year 2023-2024 was carried out by M/S Bhattacharyya Roychaudhuri & Associates, Chartered Accountants, and a detailed report thereof was submitted to the Board of Directors. In the said internal audit report the auditor has not expressed any adverse remark or qualification.

In addition, the Company also follows the Guidelines on Capital Restructuring of Central Public Sector Enterprises and also Guideline of the Department of Public Enterprises. The aforesaid policies are available on the website of the Company.

Details of Significant and Material Orders passed by the Regulators or Courts or Tribunals impacting the going concern status and Company’s operation in future

No significant or material orders were passed by the Regulators or Courts or Tribunals which may have an impact on the going concern status and Company’s operations in future.

Vigilance Cases

No vigilance cases were reported, disposed of nor there are any such cases pending during the year. Vigil Mechanism / Whistle Blower Policy

Your Company had adopted a Whistle Blower Policy on 10^th February, 2020. The details of the said policy are given in the Corporate Governance Report 2023-24 and can be downloaded from the following hyperlink of the Company’s website:

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/Whistle Blower policy.pdf Constitution of internal Committee

The Company has no employees of its own. The requirement for constituting an Internal Committee under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 did not arise.

Maintenance of Cost Records

The requirement of maintenance of cost records is not applicable to your Company.

Procurement from MSMEs as per Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) Order, 2012

The Company is formed for temporary purpose and is not having any business and hence the Company has neither had taken any target nor made any procurement from MSMEs during the Financial Year 2023-2024.

Annual return and Weblink

In terms of Section 92 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rules made thereunder, the Company shall place a copy of the Annual Return (MGT-7) for Financial Year 2023-2024 on the website of the Company after filing the same with Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The Company has already placed a copy of the Annual Return for Financial Year 2022-23 on the website of the Company, link of which is: https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/FinalWebsiteFormMGT7.pdf

Compliance with secretarial standards

The Company is compliant of the Secretarial Standard-1 and Secretarial Standard-2 issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, which are mandatory.

Business responsibility report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity except to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under Business Responsibility Report are not applicable to your Company.

acknowledgement

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas & and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., its subsidiary. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the Members of the Company.

registered Office: On behalf of Board of

21, Netaji Subhas Road, Balmer Lawrie Investments Limited

Kolkata-700001

[saurav Dutta] [arvind Nath Jha] Director director

Date: 8^th August, 2024 (DIN 10042140) (DIN 10384829 )

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The Board’s Report is based on standalone Financial Statements of the Company and this information is given as an added information to the Members.

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These requests were received online through RTI Request & Appeal Management Information System hence, the fee is collected by Department of Personnel & Training, Government of India.

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Mar 31, 2023

Your Directors have the pleasure in presenting the 22^nd Annual Report of the Company along with the audited Financial Statement (both Standalone and Consolidated) for the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2023 and other allied Statements/Disclosures as required as per the applicable statute.

Overview of the State of the Company’s Affairs

Your Company’s performance is primarily dependent upon two factors, one, being the dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and the other being the interest received from deployment of surplus funds with Scheduled Commercial Banks.

During the year under review, i.e., Financial Year 2022-23, there was an increase in interest income and dividend income of the Company and accordingly, the total income of your Company increased by around Rs. 685.04 Lakh as compared to the last Financial Year, i.e., 2021-22. The amount of dividend income received from the subsidiary during the Financial Year under review was at an enhanced rate.

The summary of comparative annual financial results for the Financial Year under review, i.e., 202223 as against the immediately preceding Financial Year, i.e., 2021-22, has been furnished below:

Financial Summary

(Rs. in Lakh)
Particulars	Financial Year	Financial Year
	ended	ended
	31st March, 2023	31st march, 2022
Profit before Tax	7,516.11	6,780.31
Less: Tax Expense	174.18	118.61
Net Profit	7,341.93	6,661.7

Transfer to Reserves

The Board of Directors have decided not to transfer any amount to reserves.

share capital

The paid-up Equity Share Capital of the Company as on 31^st March, 2023 stood at Rs.22,19,72,690/-(at same value as in the previous year). During the year under review, the Company has not issued any shares with differential voting rights nor has granted any stock options or sweat equity shares.

dividend

The Board recommend a dividend of 330%, i.e., Rs. 33.00 (Rupees Thirty Three only) per equity share of Rs.10/- each fully paid-up for the Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2023 as against 300%, i.e., Rs. 30.00 (Rupees Thirty) per equity share for the previous Financial Year ended 31^st March, 2022. The dividend, if declared by the shareholders at the ensuing 22^nd Annual General Meeting (AGM), will be paid either by way of warrant, demand draft or electronic mode and will be paid to those Shareholders who would be holding shares of the Company as on the cut-off date fixed for the purpose i.e., Wednesday, 20^th September, 2023 (End of Day), within 30 days from the date of such declaration. In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as per details to be furnished by their respective Depositories, i.e., either Central Depository Services (India) Limited or National Securities Depository Limited as on Wednesday, 20^th September, 2023 (End of Day) fixed as cut-off date for the purpose. The dividend to be paid shall be subject to Tax deducted at source and other applicable provisions of Income Tax Act, 1961.

APPROPRIATION

The amount available for appropriations for the Financial Year 2022-23 as compared to the immediately preceding Financial Year 2021-22 are given hereunder:

(Rs. in Lakh)
	standalone financial results		CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL RESULTS*
Particulars	FY 2022-23	FY2021-22	FY 2022-23	2021-22 (Restated)
Profit After Tax	7,341.93	6,661.70	11,093.24	8,823.57
Add: Transfer from Profit & Loss Account	7,406.71	9,179.97	74,883.25	73,146.37
Total amount available for Appropriation	14,748.64	15,841.67	85,976.49	81,969.94
Appropriations:
Dividend paid @ 380% in Financial Year 2021-2022 and @ 300% in Financial Year 2022-23	6,659.18	8,434.96	6,659.18	8,434.96
Corporate Tax on Dividend	-	-	-	-
Transfer to General Reserve	-	-	-	-
Other Adjustment	-	-	(4,604.89)	1,348.27
Minority interest / Foreign Exchange Conversion Reserve etc.	-	-	-	-
Surplus carried forward to next year	8,089.46	7,406.71	7,4712.42	74,883.25
Total of Appropriations	14,784.64	15,841.67	85,976.49	81,969.94

* The Board’s Report is based on Standalone Financial Statements of the Company and this information is given as an added information to the Members.

DIVIDEND DISTRIBUTION POLICY

As per market capitalization of the Company as on 31^st March, 2022, it was not falling under top 1000 listed entities. Accordingly, formulation of Dividend Distribution Policy as per Regulation 43A of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 ("Listing Regulations) was not applicable to the Company for Financial Year 202223. However, the Company is governed by the Guidelines of Department of Investment & Public Asset Management, Ministry of Finance, Government of India on Capital Restructuring of Central Public Sector Enterprises dated 27^th May, 2016 which contains detailed provisions regarding payment dividend. The said guidelines are available on the website of the Company at the following link: https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/guidelines-on-capital-restructuring-of-cpse-27-05-2016.pdf

MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS AFFECTING THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE COMPANY OCCURRED BETWEEN THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR AND THE DATE OF THE REPORT

There have been no material changes and commitments affecting the Financial Position of the Company occurred between the end of the financial year and the date of the report.

DEPOSITS WITH BANK

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in various Fixed Deposit Schemes of the Scheduled Commercial Banks. As on 31^st March, 2023, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit Schemes was Rs. 13,312.60 Lakh, which in turn had yielded an interest income of Rs. 738.80 Lakh during the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023 (as against Rs. 589.23 Lakh for the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2022).

MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS REPORT

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity except, to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly, matters to be covered under ‘Management Discussion and Analysis report’ are not applicable to your Company.

report ON SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY DURING THE YEAR

In terms of Section 2(87) of the Companies Act, 2013 (‘the Act’), your Company has two subsidiaries, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (‘BL’), and Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (‘VPLPL’). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.80%), your Company is the Holding Company of BL. BL in turn has one Subsidiary Company, VPLPL.

The Company has a "Policy for determining material subsidiaries” in terms of the amended the Listing Regulations. The policy may be accessed on the Company’s website at:

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/Policy on determining material subsidiaries amended.pdf

As per the aforesaid policy, none of its subsidiaries appear to be a material unlisted subsidiary of the Company.

As stated earlier, the major income of the Company is the dividend received from the Subsidiary-Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd..

A brief write up about the Subsidiaries inter-alia reporting about its performance and financial position and other significant events is presented hereunder:

Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL)

BL recorded a net turnover of Rs. 2,38,309.16 Lakh during Financial Year 2022-23 as against Rs. 2,10,484.97 Lakh in 2021-22 registering an increase of approximately 13.22% over the last year. It also recorded a Profit Before Tax of Rs. 21,130.23 Lakh in Financial Year 2022-23 as against Rs. 17,014.45 Lakh in Financial Year 2021-22. BL’s Board of Directors have recommended a dividend of Rs. 7.50 per equity share for Financial Year 2022-23.

Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (VPLPL)

Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (hereinafter referred to ‘the JVC’) was incorporated on 24^th July 2014, under the Companies Act, 2013, with equity contribution in the ratio of 60:40 between the two joint venture partners, namely Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and Visakhapatnam Port Authority.

The JVC runs and operates a Multimodal Logistics Hub (MMLH) facility in Visakhapatnam. The MMLH comprises of an open yard storage facility, mechanised warehouse and a temperature-controlled storage solution facility for mechanised materials handling and intermodal transfer between container terminals and break-bulk cargo terminals. The MMLH provides option for handling both bonded as well as non-bonded cargo coupled with offering of value-added services such as customs clearance, sorting, grading, aggregation, disaggregation and freight handling. It has a rail connectivity of 1.30 K.M. where 4 rakes can be handled in a day. The MMLH upon receipt of CFS license, has commenced its CFS operations from 2^nd March, 2023.

The mechanised warehouse facility of the JVC covering around 1,06,650 sq. ft. had witnessed an average capacity utilization of 92% during the Financial Year 2022-23, as against utilization of 97% during the previous Financial Year 2021-22. In the anticipation of receiving CFS license, the EXIM portion of the warehouse had to be vacated in November, 2022, which resulted in reduction of capacity utilization, which otherwise had witnessed 100% utilisation till November, 2022.

The JVC’s temperature-controlled warehouse facility is equipped with frozen & chilled chambers with

a capacity of handling 3,780 pallets. During the Financial Year 2022-23, this business had reached its maximum capacity utilization of 100% as against utilization of 95% during the previous Financial Year 2021-22.

The JVC during the year under review experienced challenges in achieving growth in the area of Open Yard and Rail Siding business due to imposition of export duty on steel products which was effective from second quarter of the Financial Year 2022-23, ban on export of agricultural commodities and non-availability of rakes for the customers dealing in Aluminium products. These significant factors had adversely affected the capacity utilization of its Open Yard business, which had dropped from 40% (Financial Year 2021-22) to 24% in the Financial Year 2022-23. The number of rakes handled also had reduced from 123 Rakes (Financial Year 2021-22) to 60 rakes in the Financial Year 2022-23.

During the Financial Year 2022-23, the JVC was able to generate a total revenue of Rs. 12.56 crores as against Rs. 14.05 crores earned during the previous Financial Year 2021-22. However, due to depreciation and interest on borrowings, the JVC ended up with a loss of Rs. 10.54 crores during the Financial Year 2022-23.

The significant achievement of the JVC during the year 2022-23, was the receipt of Container Freight Station (CFS) license on 27^th January, 2023 and commencement of CFS operations on 2^nd March, 2023. With this license in place, the facility is now aligned with the Prime Minister’s Gati Shakti initiative, since, the JVC is well equipped to offer an end-to-end Logistics Services with best-in-class infrastructure.

The JVC had already handled 74 TEUs of Export containers in the month of March 2023 and generated a revenue of Rs. 12 lakh. The JVC is expected to perform better in the current Financial Year 2023-24, since, commercial agreements have been signed off with some of the major shipping lines.

Financial Statements of Subsidiary Companies

The Financial Statements and Results of your Company have been duly consolidated with its Subsidiaries, Associates and Joint Ventures pursuant to applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 & the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 (as amended), the Listing Regulations and the applicable Indian Accounting Standards (Ind-AS).

Further, in line with first proviso to Section 129(3) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Rules thereon, Consolidated Financial Statements prepared by your Company includes a separate Statement in Form ‘AOC-1’ containing the salient features of the Financial Statement of your Company’s Subsidiaries, Associates & Joint Ventures (as applicable) which forms part of the Annual Report.

However, separate audited accounts in respect of each of its subsidiary is placed on the website of the Company - www.blinv.com. Further, a copy of separate audited financial statements in respect of each of the subsidiary shall be provided on requisition by any shareholder of the Company in writing.

CESSATION/CHANGE IN JOINT VENTURES/ SUBSIDIARIES/ ASSOCIATE COMPANIES DURING THE Year

During Financial Year 2022-23, there were no changes in Joint Ventures/ Subsidiaries/ Associate Companies of the Company. Effective 8^th August, 2022, BLUAE- a foreign joint venture of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (the Subsidiary Company) had acquired 100% of the issued share capital of Elegant Industries LLC registered at UAE, and its financials are merged with BLUAE.

DEPOSITS

Your Company has neither accepted nor was holding any deposits from the public during the Financial Year 2022-23 and accordingly, no deposit remained unpaid or unclaimed at the end of Financial Year and there was no instance of default in repayment of deposits or interests thereon during the Financial Year and there were NIL deposits which were not in compliance with the requirements of Chapter V of the Companies Act, 2013. Further, the Company shall not be accepting any deposits in Financial Year 2023-24.

COMPLIANCE OF RIGHT TO INFORMATION (RTI) ACT, 2005

Information which are mandatorily required to be disclosed under the RTI Act, 2005 have been disclosed on the website of your Company. The report on receipt and disposal of RTI applications during the Financial Year 2022-23 is as under:

Particulars	Opening Balance as on 01.04.2022	Received during the Year (including cases transferred to other Public Authority)	No. of cases transferred to other Public Authorities	decisions where request/ appeals rejected	decisions where requests/ appeals accepted	Closing balance as on 31.03.2023
(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)
Requests	2	11*	0	2	11	0
First Appeals	0	1	0	0	1	0

*These requests were received online through RTI Request & Appeal Management Information System hence, the fee is collected by Department of Personnel & Training, Government of India.

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS & OUTGO

Since, the Company does not have any business other than to hold shares of its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., the reporting of Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption as per Rule 8(3) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is not applicable for your Company.

The details pertaining to Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo are enumerated as under: NIL

risk management policy

The Company does not have any business apart from holding the shares of its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and is a Special Purpose Vehicle formed for temporary purpose. In compliance with the applicable provisions of the Listing Regulations (as amended) pertaining to Risk Management Committee, the Board had constituted the Risk Management Committee on 11^th February, 2022, fixed its terms of reference and approved the Risk Management Plan for the Company. As per further amendment of the Listing Regulations w.e.f. 7^th September, 2021, the provisions pertaining to the Risk Management Committee turned inapplicable for the Company.

It may be pertinent to mention that the Company being a special purpose vehicle, as stated above, does not carry out any business other than holding 61.80% equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd.

CORPORATE sOCIAL REsPONsiBILITY (CsR)

Annual Report on CsR Activities

1. Brief outline on CsR Policy of the Company

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability Policy of the Company is as under: Philosophy

The Policy is in the nature of initiatives or endeavour which the key stakeholders expect of the Company in the discharge of their Corporate Social Responsibility. It reflects the willingness of the Company to voluntarily take a few extra steps to address social, economic and environmental concerns but are nevertheless worthy of attention for promotion of sustainable development in its diverse dimensions.

Activities to be undertaken

It is the policy of the Company to undertake any activity which is permissible to be carried out towards CSR as per:

1) Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 (the act) and the allied Rules, including any statutory amendment thereof,

2) The guidelines formulated by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on CSR and Sustainability (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Guidelines’) which are applicable to CPSEs.

implementation

The Company shall endeavour to implement activities/programs as per the CSR Policy keeping in view:

1) the constraints faced due to the form and nature of organisation.

2) the administrative and incidental cost are minimum so that the maximum expenditure so allocated is spent for the benefit of the society.

CSR Expenditure

CSR expenditure will include all expenditure, direct and indirect, incurred by the Company on CSR Activities/ Programmes undertaken in accordance with the approved CSR Plan.

Any surplus arising from any CSR Activities/Programmes shall be used for CSR. Accordingly, any income arising from CSR Programmes will be netted off from the CSR expenditure and such net amount will be reported as CSR expenditure.

The CSR Policy of the Company is available on the website of the Company at: https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/CSR and Sustainability Policy.pdf

2. Composition of CSR Committee as on 31^st March, 2023

The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Company consisted of the following

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Members as on 31 March, 2023:

sl. No.	name of Director	designation / nature of directorship	number of meeting of CsR Committee held during the year	number of meeting of CsR Committee attended during the year
1.	Shri Saurav Dutta	Chairman, Non-Executive Director (Ex-officio)	1	1
2.	Shri Mrityunjay Jha	Member, Government Nominee Director	1	1
3.	Shri Shyam Singh Mahar	Member, Government Nominee Director	1	1

3. The web-link where Composition of CsR committee, CsR Policy approved by the board are disclosed on the website of the company.

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/index.php

https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/CSR and Sustainability Policy.pdf

Since, the Company makes the CSR Expenditure by way of contribution to permissible Funds as per Schedule VII to the Companies Act, 2013, there are no CSR projects, per se to be enumerated on its website.

4. The executive summary along with web-link(s) of impact Assessment of CsR Projects carried out in pursuance of sub-rule (3) of rule 8, if applicable - Not Applicable.

5. (a) Average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135. - Rs. 652.18 Lakh.

(b) Two percent of average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135 - Rs. 13.04 Lakh.

(c) Surplus arising out of the CSR Projects or programmes or activities of the previous Financial Years. - Nil

(d) Amount required to be set-off for the Financial Year, if any. - Nil

(e) Total CSR obligation for the Financial Year [(b) (c)-(d)]. - Rs. 13.04 Lakh

6. (a) Amount spent on CSR Projects (both Ongoing Project and other than Ongoing Project). - Rs. 13.04 Lakh

(b) Amount spent in Administrative overheads. - Nil

(c) Amount spent on Impact Assessment, if applicable. - Not Applicable

(d) Total amount spent for the Financial Year [(a) (b) (c)]. - Rs. 13.04 Lakh

(e) CSR amount spent or unspent for the Financial Year: CSR amount spent: Rs. 13.04 Lakh

					Amount Unspent (in Rs.)
	Total Amount spent for the Financial Year (in Rs.)				Total Amount transferred to Unspent CsR Account as per sub-section (6) of section 135			Amount transferred to any fund specified under schedule Vii as per second proviso to sub-section (5) of section 135
	13.04 Lakh				Amount	Date of transfer		Name of the Fund			Amount		Date of transfer
					-	-		-			-		-
	(f) Excess amount for set-off, if any:
	si. No.		Particular											Amount (Rs. / Lakh)
	(1)		(2)											(3)
	(i)		Two percent of average net profit of the company as per sub-section (5) of section 135											13.04
	(ii)		Total amount spent for the Financial Year											13.04
	(iii)		Excess amount spent for the Financial Year [(ii)-(i)]											-
	(iv)		Surplus arising out of the CSR projects or programmes or activities of the previous Financial Years, if any											-
	(v)		Amount available for set off in succeeding Financial Years [(iii)-(iv)]											-
7.	Details of Unspent Corporate social responsibility amount for the preceding three Financial Years: Nil
	1	2		3		4	5		6			7		8
	si. No.	Preceding Financial Year(s)		Amount transferred to Unspent CsR Account under subsection (6) of section 135 (in Rs.)		Balance Amount in Unspent CsR Account under subsection (6) of section 135 (in Rs.)	Amount spent in the Financial Year (in Rs)		Amount transferred to a Fund as specified under schedule VII as per second proviso to sub-section (5) of section 135, if any			Amount remaining to be spent in succeeding Financial Years (in Rs.)		Deficiency, if any
									Amount (in Rs.)	Date of transfer
	1.	Financial Year-1		-		-	-		-	-		-		-
	2.	Financial Year-2		-		-	-		-	-		-		-
	3.	Financial Year-3		-		-	-		-	-		-		-

8. Whether any capital assets have been created or acquired through Corporate Social Responsibility amount spent in the Financial Year: NoFurnish the details relating to such asset(s) so created or acquired through Corporate Social Responsibility amount spent in the Financial Year:

sl. No.	short particulars of the property or asset(s) [including complete address and location of the property]	Pin code of the property or asset(s)	Date of creation	Amount of CsR amount spent	Details of entity/ Authority/ beneficiary of the registered owner
					csr Registration Number, if applicable	Name	Registered address
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

9. Specify the reason(s), if the company has failed to spend two per cent of the average net profit as per sub-section (5) of section 135. - Not Applicable

shri saurav Dutta shri Mrityunjay Jha

Chairperson of CsR Committee Memberof CsR Committee

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directors’ responsibility statement

In terms of provisions of Section 134(3)(c) and 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013, the Board of Directors to the best of their knowledge and ability confirm that:

(a) in the preparation of the annual accounts for the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023, the applicable accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to material departures;

(b) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that were 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 2022-23 and of the profit and loss of the Company for that period;

(c) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provision of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

(d) the Directors had prepared the annual accounts for the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023 on a going concern basis;

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

(f) the Directors had devised proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable

laws and that such systems were adequate and operating effectively.

corporate governance

Your Company has been consistently complying with the various Regulations, Circulars and Guidelines of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as well as of Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) to the extent under the control of the Company.

Pursuant to the said SEBI Regulations and DPE Guidelines, a separate section titled ‘Corporate Governance Report’ is being furnished and marked as Annexure-1.

The provisions on Corporate Governance under DPE Guidelines which do not exist in the SEBI Guidelines and also do not contradict any of the provisions of the SEBI Regulations are also complied with.

Further, your Company’s Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of conditions of Corporate Governance and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as Annexure-2.

DIRECTORS & KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL (KMP) AND MEETINGS OF THE BOARDDURING The YEAR

directors and Key managerial Personnel

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As on 31 March, 2023, the Board of your Company consisted of the following 3 (three) Directors:

a. Shri Saurav Dutta, Additional Director, (Ex-officio member) in the category of Non-Executive Director, Non- Independent Director, Chairman.

b. Shri Mrityunjay Jha, Government Nominee Director, in the category of Non-Executive Director and Non- Independent Director.

c. Shri Shyam Singh Mahar, Government Nominee Director, in the category of Non-Executive Director and Non- Independent Director.

The Company has only one KMP, i.e., Company Secretary. The Company does not have any MD/

Whole time Director or Chief Financial Officer.

The Company being a Central Public Sector Enterprise, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

(MOP&NG), being the Administrative Ministry directs the Company every time a change in appointment

of the Directors of the Company is required.

meetings of the Board during the Financial Year

The details of the meetings of the Board held during the Financial Year have been enumerated in the

Corporate Governance Report marked as Annexure - 1.

Directors retired/appointed/resigned during the Financial Year

Appointments during the Financial Year:

1. Shri Shyam Singh Mahar (DIN: 08511166) was appointed as an Additional Director in the category of Non-Executive Government Nominee Director of the Company with effect from 1^st July, 2022 as per applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and allied Rules vide Resolution by Circulation passed by the Board of Directors on 1^st July, 2022 in line with letter bearing reference No.C-31032/1/2021-PNG-37493 dated 14^th June, 2022 as received from the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India in line with the recommendation of Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Thereafter, Shri Shyam Singh Mahar was appointed as Non-Executive Government Director by the shareholders at the 21^st AGM of the Company held on 27^th September, 2022.

2. Shri Adhip Nath Palchaudhuri (DIN: 08695322) was appointed as an Additional Director in the category of Non-Executive Director (Ex-officio) of the Company for the period 1^st January, 2023 till 13^th February, 2023 as per the applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 & allied Rules, Listing Regulations, in line with the recommendation of Nomination and Remuneration Committee and in line with letters bearing reference No.- P-21014/1/2006-Mkt dated 16^th April, 2010 and CA-31024/2/2022-PNG (44948) dated 30^th December, 2022 received from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. Thereafter, approval of shareholders through Postal Ballot was obtained with requisite majority by the Company on Thursday, 23^rd March, 2023.

3. Shri Saurav Dutta (DIN:10042140) was appointed as an Additional Director in the category of NonExecutive Director, (Ex-Officio) of the Company with effect from 14^th February, 2023 as per the applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and allied rules and in line with letters bearing reference Nos.- P-21014/1/2006-Mkt dated 16^th April, 2010 and CA-31024/1/2021-PNG (36607) dated 31^st January, 2023 received from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India subject to approval by the share holders pursuant to Listing Regulations, in line with the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

Cessation

1. As per nomination letter bearing reference no.- C-31033/2/2018-CA/PNG(25758) dated 12^th July, 2019 received from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, being the Administrative Ministry, the directorship of Smt. Shilpa Shashikant Patwardhan (DIN: 07008287) as Non-Executive, Independent Director of the Company had ceased with effect from 12^th July, 2022 owing to completion of her tenure.

2. Shri Sandip Das (DIN: 08217697) had relinquished the office of Non-Executive Director (Ex-officio) of the Company with effect from 1^st January, 2023 owing to his superannuation from the services of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. in line with Letter bearing reference No. CA-31024/2/2018-PNG (25059) dated 20^th January, 2020 received from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India.

3. As per nomination letter bearing reference no.- CA-31024/2/2022-PNG (44948) dated 30^th December, 2022 read with letter bearing reference no. CA-31024/1/2021-PNG (36607) dated 31^st January, 2023 received from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, the directorship of Shri Adhip Nath Palchaudhuri (DIN: 08695322) as an Additional, Non-Executive Director (Ex-officio) of the Company had ceased with effect from 14^th February, 2023.

The resolutions with respect to reappointment and appointment forms part of the Notice of the 22^nd AGM and the details thereof are also given in Explanatory Statement attached to the Notice of the 22^nd AGM of the Company.

DETAILS RELATING TO REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS, KEY MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL AND EMPLOYEES

Your Company being a Government Company, vide notification no. GSR 463(E) dated 5^th June, 2015 as amended by Notification No. GSR 582(E) dated 13^th June, 2017 and Notification No. GSR 802(E) dated 23^rd February, 2018, and GSR 151(E) dated 2^nd March, 2020 has been exempted from the applicability of Section 134(3)(e) and Section 197 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Company does not pay any sitting fee to any Directors except Independent Directors. Further, the Company does not have any employee of its own other than the Company Secretary, who is seconded to the Company from its Subsidiary Company pursuant to the service agreement.

BOARD EVALUATION AND CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION

Your Company, being a Government Company, vide Notification No. GSR 463(E) dated 5^th June, 2015 as amended by Notification No. GSR 582(E) dated 13^th June, 2017 and Notification No. GSR 802(E) dated 23^rd February, 2018 and GSR 151(E) dated 2^nd March, 2020 has been exempted from applicability of section 134(3)(p) and 178(2), (3) and (4) of the Companies Act, 2013.

As the appointment of directors of the Company (including the Independent Directors) is done as per the direction of the Administrative Ministry, the Board is not in a position to form an opinion with regard to the aspects stated in Rule 8(5)(iii)(a) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.

DECLARATION BY INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

The Company did not have an Independent Director as on Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023. Smt. Shilpa Shashikant Patwardhan, who was the only Independent Director of the Company as on 31^st March, 2022, ceased to be a Director of the Company w.e.f. 12^th July, 2022 due to completion of her tenure as per her terms of appointment/nomination by the Administrative Ministry.

AUDIT Committee

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The Committee as of 31 March, 2023 consisted of 3 (Three) Members and all of them, including the Chairperson of the Committee were Non-Executive Directors.

st As of 31 March, 2023 the following were the Members of the Committee:
Names	Position held
Shri Mrityunjay Jha, Non-Executive - Government Nominee Director	Chairperson
Shri Shyam Singh Mahar, Non-Executive - Government Nominee Director	Member
Shri Saurav Dutta, Non-Executive Director (Ex-Officio)	Member

All the Members of the Audit Committee are financially literate and some Members possess accounting/ financial management expertise also. The Company Secretary acts as the Secretary to this Committee.

There were no such instances where the Board had not accepted any recommendation of the Audit Committee.

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS (RPT)

As per Regulation 23 (5) of the Listing Regulations, the provisions of sub regulations (2), (3) and (4) of Regulation 23 of the Listing Regulations shall not apply to transactions entered into between two government companies.

Further, there were no materially significant RPT during the Financial Year under review which were entered into by the Company with Directors, Key Managerial Personnel or other designated persons which have a potential conflict with the interest of the Company at large. Furthermore, no material related party transaction was entered into by the Company as per the applicable provisions of the Listing Regulations and the Related Party Transaction Policy adopted by the Company.

Your Company had adopted a policy on "Related Party Transactions” with effect from 28^th March, 2015. The said Policy was last amended w.e.f. 1^st April, 2022 vide Board Resolution dated 11^th February, 2022 to bring it in line with the amendment in the provisions of the Listing Regulations and has been uploaded on the website of the Company and is available on the following link: https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/5%20Related%20Party%20Transactions.pdf

The said policy lays down a procedure to ensure that transactions by and between the Related Parties and the Company are properly identified, reviewed and duly approved & disclosed in accordance with the applicable laws. The Policy also sets out materiality thresholds for Related Party Transactions and the material modifications thereof as required under the Listing Regulations.

Particulars of contracts and arrangements entered into by the Company with Related Parties referred to in section 188(1) of the Companies act, 2013 including certain arm’s length transaction under third proviso thereto.

FORM NO. AOC-2

1. Details of contracts and arrangements or transactions not at arm’s length basis - NIL. All the contracts and arrangements or transactions with Related Parties during the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023 were on arm’s length basis.

2. Details of material contracts or arrangement or transactions at arm’s length basis - NIL. None of the transactions with Related Party can be considered as "material” as per the policy on Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions adopted by the Company.

All contracts or arrangement entered into under Section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 have been enumerated in Note no.31 of Standalone Financial Statements in compliance with the applicable accounting standards, thereby forming part of the Financial Statement for the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023.

JUSTIFICATION ON THE RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS ENTERED

• In the year 2002, the Company for the purpose of infrastructure and management support entered into a service contract with its subsidiary Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), since the Company does not have any infrastructure arrangement or any employee. The said agreement is renewed from time to time pursuant to which the Company receives services in nature of administration, finance, taxation, legal, secretarial, etc. from BL.

• The Company was formed as a Special Purpose Vehicle with no regular business activity on 20^th September, 2001, with the sole objective of holding the Equity shares of BL, transferred / demerged from IBP Company Limited (under the scheme of Arrangement & Reconstruction);

• The major source of income of your Company is dividend earned from its subsidiary Company, BL.

• The Company has no employees of its own including the Company Secretary, who is seconded from the subsidiary Company.

PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES OR INVESTMENTS UNDER SECTION 186 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013

Details of investments made by the Company in other company is enumerated in Note 7 of Standalone Financial Statement.

AUDITORS

The Statutory Auditors of your Company (being a ‘Government Company’) are appointed by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) under Section 139 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.

Pursuant to Section 142 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013, the remuneration of the Statutory Auditors as and when appointed for the Financial Year 2023-24 is to be determined by the Members at the ensuing 22^nd Annual General Meeting.

REPORT OF The STATUTORY Auditor

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023 does not have any reservation, qualification, adverse remark or disclaimer. Report of the Statutory Auditors is attached with the Financial Statement.

comments of the comptroller and AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA

The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) had conducted the supplementary audit of the Financial Statements of the Company for the Financial Year ended on 31^st March, 2023. In respect of the Standalone Financial Statement and Consolidated Financial Statement of the Company, the CAG has commented that on the basis of their supplementary audit, nothing significant had come to their knowledge which would give rise to any comment upon or supplement to statutory auditor’s report under Section 143(6)(b) of the Companies Act, 2013. The communication from the CAG in this regard is attached as Annexure-3A and Annexure- 3B respectively.

Further, CAG stated that Section 139(5) and 143(6)(a) of the Companies Act, 2013 were not applicable to the entities as detailed in Annexure thereto, being private entities / entities incorporated in Foreign countries under the respective laws, for appointment of their Statutory Auditor and for conduct of supplementary audit. Accordingly, CAG had neither appointed the Statutory Auditors nor conducted the supplementary audit of those companies.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARIAL AUDITOR

The Board of Directors had appointed Shri Debabrata Dutt, (Membership No.- FCS: 5401 and Certificate of Practice Number: 3824), proprietor of M/s. D. Dutt & Co. Company Secretaries as Secretarial Auditor for the Financial Year 2022-2023 in compliance with the provisions of Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Report of Secretarial Auditor is annexed and marked as Annexure-4.

ADEQUACY OF INTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROLS

The Company has inter-alia taken the following measures to ensure that an adequate internal financial control exists:

- Appointment of Internal Auditor as per Section 138 read with Rule 13 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 as well as Secretarial Auditor as per Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013.

- The Company has also adopted the following policies apart from the Code of Conduct applicable to the Board Members and Senior Management and other Policies enumerated earlier:

• ‘Code of Practices and Procedures for Fair Disclosure of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information’;

• ‘Code of Conduct to Regulate, Monitor and Report Trading by Designated Persons and immediate relative of Designated Persons’

• ‘Vigil Mechanism/ Whistle Blower Policy’ of the Company.

The internal audit for Financial Year 2022-2023 was carried out by M/s Bhattacharyya Roychaudhuri & Associates, Chartered Accountants and a detailed report thereof was submitted to the Board of Directors. In the said internal audit report the auditor has not expressed any adverse remark or qualification.

In addition, the Company also follows the Guidelines on Capital Restructuring of Central Public Sector Enterprises and also applicable Guideline of the Department of Public Enterprises. The aforesaid policies are available on the website of the Company.

DETAILS OF SIGNIFICANT AND MATERIAL ORDERS PASSED BY THE REGULATORS OR COURTS OR TRIBUNALS IMPACTING THE GOING CONCERN STATUS AND COMPANY’S OPERATION IN FUTURE

No significant or material orders were passed by the Regulators or Courts or Tribunals which may have an impact on the going concern status and Company’s operations in future.

VIGILANCE CASES

No vigilance cases were reported, disposed of nor there are any such cases pending during the year. VIGIL Mechanism / Whistle BLOWER POLICY

Your Company had adopted a Whistle Blower Policy on 10^th February, 2020. The details of the said policy are given in the Corporate Governance Report for the Financial Year 2022-23 and can be downloaded from the following hyperlink of the Company’s website: https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/Whistle Blower policy.pdf

CONSTITUTION OF INTERNAL COMMITTEE

The Company has no employees of its own. The requirement for constituting an Internal Committee under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 did not arise.

MAINTENANCE OF COST RECORDS

The requirement of maintenance of cost records is not applicable to your Company.

PROCUREMENT FROM MSMES AS PER PUBLIC PROCUREMENT POLICY FOR MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES (MSES) ORDER, 2012

The Company is formed for temporary purpose and is not having any business and hence, the Company had neither had taken any target nor made any procurement from MSMEs during the Financial Year 2022-2023.

ANNUAL RETURN AND WEBLINK

In terms of Section 92 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rules made thereunder, the Company shall place a copy of the Annual Return (MGT-7) for Financial Year 2022-2023 on the website of the Company after filing the same with Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The Company has already placed a copy of the Annual Return for Financial Year 2021-22 on the website of the Company, link of which is: https://www.balmerlawrie.com/blinv/admin/uploads/MGT-7-BLIL-2021-2022.pdf

COMPLIANCE WITH SECRETARIAL Standards

The Company is compliant of the Secretarial Standard-1 on Meetings of Board of Directors and Secretarial Standard-2 on General Meetings issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, which are mandatory.

BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity except to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly, matters to be covered under Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report are not applicable to your Company.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., its Subsidiary Company. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the Members of the Company.

Registered Office: On behalf of Board of

21, Netaji Subhas Road, Balmer Lawrie Investments Limited

Kolkata-700001

[Saurav Dutta] [Mrityunjay Jha]

Director Director

Date: 8^th August, 2023 (DIN: 10042140) (DIN: 08483795 )

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Mar 31, 2018

To the Members,

The Directors have the pleasure in presenting the 17th Annual Report of the company along with the audited Financial Statement for the financial year ended 31st March 2018 and other allied statements/disclosures as required as per the applicable statute.

Overview on the State of Company’s Affairs

Your Company’s performance is greatly dependent upon two factors, one, being the dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and the other being the interest received from deployment of surplus funds with Scheduled Commercial Banks.

Though during the year under review, i.e., 2017-18, there was marginal decrease in interest rates but same was to an extent offset by increase in the total amount of bank deposits made, the interest income of your Company increased by around 2.37 % as compared to the last financial year, i.e., 2016-17. The amount of dividend income received from the subsidiary during the year under review was at an enhanced rate.

The summary of comparative annual financial results for the year under review, i.e., 2017-18, and the immediately preceding financial year, i.e., 2016-17, has been furnished below:

Financial Results

(Rs. in Lakhs)

Particulars	Year ended 31st March, 2018	Year ended on 31st March, 2017
Profit before Tax	5545.89	4087.78
Less: Provision for Tax	182.00	208.00
Net Profit	5363.89	3879.78

Share Capital

The paid up Equity share capital of the Company as on 31st March, 2018 stood at Rs.22,19,72,690 (at same value in the previous year). During the year under review, the Company has not issued any share with differential voting rights nor has granted any stock options or sweat equity shares.

Dividend

The Board recommend a dividend of 240%, i.e., Rs.24/- (Rupees Twenty four only) per Equity share of the face value Rs.10/- each fully paid-up, for the financial year ended 31st March 2018 (as against 170% ,i.e. Rs. 17/- per Equity share for the previous financial year ended 31 March 2017). Subject to the approval of the Shareholders in the ensuing 17th Annual General Meeting (AGM), dividend will be paid either by way of warrant, demand draft or electronic mode and will be paid to those Shareholders who would be holding shares of the Company as on 5th September, 2018 (End of Day). In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as on 5th September, 2018 (End of Day) as per details to be furnished by their respective Depositories, i.e., either Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. or National Securities Depository Ltd.

Appropriation

The amount available for appropriation is the sum total of Profit after Tax (PAT) and the balance Profit brought forward from the previous financial year(s). The amount available for appropriations for the financial year 2017-18 as compared to the immediately preceding financial year 2016-17, are given hereunder:

(Rs. in Lakhs)

Particulars	2017-18	2016-17
PAT	5363.89	3879.87
Add: Balance Profit brought forward from the preceding Financial year	4377.42*	497.64*
Less: Dividend paid during the year	3773.54*	- *
Amount Available for appropriations	5967.77	4377.51

(Rs. in Lakhs)

Particulars	2017-18	2016-17
Dividend recommended @ 240% in FY 2017-18 Dividend declared @ 170%, in FY 2016-17	5327.34	3773.54
Corporate Tax on Dividend	-	-
Transfer to Reserve Fund	-	-

* Ministry of Corporate Affairs, vide its Notification No. G.S.R. 364 (E) dated 30th March, 2016, has issued Companies (Accounting Standards) Amendment Rules 2016, thereby inter-alia amending AS 4. PARA 14 of the amended Accounting Standard - 4 state that “If an enterprise declares dividends to shareholders after the balance sheet date, the enterprise should not recognise those dividends as a liability at the balance sheet date unless a statute requires otherwise. Such dividends should be disclosed in notes.”- The aforesaid amendment came into effect in respect of accounting periods commencing on or after April 1, 2017.

Deposits with Bank

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in various Fixed Deposit Schemes of the Scheduled Commercial Banks. As on 31st March 2018, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit Schemes is Rs. 10903 Lakhs, which in turn has yielded an interest income of Rs. 671.80 Lakhs during the year ended 31 March 2018 (Rs 656.21 Lakhs for the year ended 31 March 2017).

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity, except, to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under ‘Management Discussion and Analysis Report’ are not applicable to your Company.

Deposits

Your Company has neither accepted nor is holding any deposits from the public during the financial year and no deposit remained unpaid or unclaimed at the end of financial year and there was no instance of default in repayment of deposits or interests thereon during the year under section 73 of Companies Act, 2013 and therefore no disclosure is required in relation to details relating to deposits covered under Chapter V of the Companies Act, 2013. Further, the Company shall not be accepting any deposits in financial year 2018-19.

Report on Subsidiary Companies

In terms of Section 2(87) of the Companies Act, 2013 (‘the Act’) your Company has three subsidiary companies, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (‘BL’), Balmer Lawrie (UK) Ltd. (‘BLUK’) and Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (VPLPL). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.8%), your Company is the holding Company of BL. BL in turn has 2 subsidiaries BLUK and VPLPL.

Since the control in BL is intended to be temporary and there is no change in such intention, Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company with BL has not been prepared in terms of para 11(a) of Accounting Standard 21 (AS-21) issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Since the Financial Statements have not been consolidated with subsidiaries/associates/joint ventures, report on performance and financial position of the same as per Rule 8(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is not required. However, separate audited accounts in respect of each of its subsidiary shall be placed on the website of the Company -www.blinv.com. Further, a copy of separate audited financial statements in respect of each of the subsidiary shall be provided on requisition of any shareholder of the Company.

Compliance of Right to Information Act, 2005

Information, which are mandatorily required to be disclosed under the RTI Act 2005, have been disclosed on the website of your Company. The report on receipt and disposal of RTI applications during the financial year 2017-18 is as under:

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Since the Company does not have any business other than to hold shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. the reporting of Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption as per Rule 8(3) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is not applicable for your Company.

The details pertaining to Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo are enumerated as under:

NIL

Risk Management Policy

The Company does not have any business apart from holding the shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. offloaded by IBP Ltd. and is a Special Purpose Vehicle formed for temporary purpose. Hence, the requirement of laying down procedures for risk assessment and minimization is not applicable. Further, as per Regulation 21 of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, the provisions of the regulation pertaining to Risk Management Committee is not applicable to your Company.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

1. The CSR Policy of the Company was adopted by the Company on 27 January 2017:

The CSR Policy of the Company is as under:

Philosophy

The Policy is in the nature of initiatives or endeavour which the key stakeholders expect of the Company in the discharge of their Corporate Social Responsibility. It reflects the willingness of the Company to voluntarily take a few extra steps to address social, economic and environmental concerns but are nevertheless worthy of attention for promotion of sustainable development in its diverse dimensions.

Activities to be undertaken

It is the policy of the Company to undertake any activity which is permissible to be carried out towards CSR as per:

1) Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 (the act) and the allied Rules, including any statutory amendment thereof,

2) The guidelines formulated by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on CSR and Sustainability (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Guidelines’) which are applicable to CPSEs.

Implementation

The Company shall endeavour to implement activities/programs as per the CSR Policy keeping in view:

1) the constraints faced due to the form and nature of organisation.

2) the administrative and incidental cost are minimum so that the maximum expenditure so allocated is spent for the benefit of the society.

CSR Expenditure

CSR expenditure will include all expenditure, direct and indirect, incurred by the Company on CSR Activities/ Programmes undertaken in accordance with the approved CSR Plan. Any surplus arising from any CSR Activities/Programmes shall be used for CSR. Accordingly, any income arising from CSR Programmes will be netted off from the CSR expenditure and such net amount will be reported as CSR expenditure.

2. The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Company as of 31st March, 2018 consist of the following members:

- Smt. Perin Devi, Chairperson

- Shri Shyam Sundar Khuntia, Member

- Smt. Kiran Vasudeva, Member

3. Average of net profit of the company for the last three Financial Years:

(Rs. in Lakhs)

	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
Net Profit as per Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules 2014	599.09	594.09	565.13
Average of net profit of the company		586.10

4. Prescribed CSR Expenditure for 2017-18: Rs. 11.72 Lakhs (2% of the Average of net profit for the preceding 3 Financial Years)

5. Details of CSR spent during the Financial year:

a. Total amount to be spent for the Financial Year - Rs. 11.73 Lakhs

b. Amount unspent, if any: NIL

c. Manner in which the amount spent during the financial year is detailed below:

Sl.	CSR	Sector	Projects or	Amount	Amount spent	Cumulative	Amount
No.	Project or	in which	programs	Outlay	on the projects	Expenditure	Spent:
	activity	the	(1) Local	(budget)	or programs	upto the	Direct or
	identified	project	area or	project or		reporting	through
		is	other	programs	Subheads:	period	implementing
		covered	(2) specify the State and district where projects or programs were undertaken	wise	(1) Direct expenditure on projects or programs (2) Overheads:		agency
1	Contribution to Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund	NA	NA	Rs. 11.73 Lakhs	Rs. 11.73 Lakhs	Rs. 11.73 Lakhs	Directly

The acknowledgement of above contribution is attached as Annexure 1

6. Responsibility statement of the CSR Committee:

“We the members of the CSR Committee hereby confirm that the implementation and monitoring of the CSR Policy is in compliance with CSR objectives and Policy of the Company.”

Perin Devi Shyam Sundar Khuntia Kiran Vasudeva

Chairperson Member Member

Directors’ Responsibility Statement

In terms of provisions of Section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 your 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 had been followed along with proper explanations and there were no material departures;

(ii) the Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgment and estimates that were reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit and loss of the Company for that period;

(iii) the Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provision of the Act, for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

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

(v) the Directors had laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and that such internal financial controls are adequate and were operating effectively.

(vi) 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.

Corporate Governance

Your Company has been consistently complying with the various Regulations and Guidelines of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as well as of Department of Public Enterprises (DPE).

Pursuant to the said SEBI Regulations and DPE Guidelines, a separate section titled ‘Corporate Governance Report’ is being furnished and marked as Annexure-2.

The provisions on Corporate Governance under DPE Guidelines which do not exist in the SEBI Guidelines and also do not contradict any of the provisions of the SEBI Guidelines are also complied with.

Further, your Company’s Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of conditions of Corporate Governance and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as Annexure-3.

Directors & Key Managerial Personnel and meetings of the Board during the year

The details of the meetings of the Board held during the year have been enumerated in the Corporate Governance Report marked as Annexure - 2.

Directors appointed or resigned during the year

The composition of directors did not under went any change during the financial year 2017-18. Shri Shyam Sundar Khuntia, has been appointed as Director (Finance) of BL with effect from 28th March, 2016 pursuant to the letter bearing reference no. C-31024/04/2015-CA/FTS:39711 dated 22nd March, 2016 from MOP&NG. Accordingly, Shri Khuntia was appointed as an Additional Director of your Company (Non-Executive Director, Ex-officio) with effect from 30th March 2016. Thereafter, Shri Khuntia was appointed by the shareholders at the 15th Annual General Meeting held on 22 September 2016. At the 17th Annual General Meeting the proposal for re-appointment of Shri Khuntia who retires by rotation is placed before the shareholders.

Audit Committee

The Committee as of 31st March 2018 consists of 3 members and all of them, including the Chairperson of the Committee, are Non-Executive Directors.

As of 31st March 2018, the following are the members of the Committee:

Names	Position held
Smt. Perin Devi	Chairperson
Shri Shyam Sundar Khuntia	Member
Smt. Kiran Vasudeva	Member

The members of the Audit Committee are all financially literate and majority have expertise in finance and general management matters. The Company Secretary acted as the secretary to the Audit Committee.

There were no such instances where the Board had not accepted any recommendation of the Audit Committee,

Related Party Transactions

The Company adopted policy on “Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions” with effect from 28th March 2015. The said policy was amended to bring in line with the amendment in the provisions of Companies Act 2013 and has been uploaded on the website of the Company www.blinv.com.

Particulars of contracts and arrangements with Related Parties referred under section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013

The particulars of contracts and arrangements with Related Parties referred under section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 in the prescribed form is as under:

Form No. AOC 2

1. Details of contracts and arrangements or transactions not at arm’s length basis - NIL. All the contracts and arrangements or transactions with Related Parties during the year ended 31st March, 2018 were on arm’s length basis.

2. Details of material contracts or arrangement or transactions at arm’s length basis - NIL. None of the transactions with Related Party can be considered as “material” as per the policy on - Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions adopted by the Company.

All contracts or arrangement entered into under Section 188(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 has been enumerated in details in Note no. 24 of Financial Statements in compliance with the applicable accounting standards, thereby forming part of the financial statement as on 31st March 2018.

Justification on the Related Party Transactions entered -

- In the year 2002, the Company for the purpose of infrastructure and management support entered into a service contract with its subsidiary Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), since the Company does not have any infrastructure arrangement or any employee. The said agreement is renewed from time to time pursuant to which the Company receives services in nature of administration, finance, taxation, legal, secretarial, etc from BL.

- The Company was formed as a Special Purpose Vehicle with no regular business activity on 20th September 2001, with the sole objective of holding the Equity shares of BL, transferred / de-merged from IBP Co. Ltd. (under the scheme of Arrangement & Reconstruction);

- The major source of income of your Company is dividend earned from its subsidiary, BL.

Particulars of Loans, Guarantees or Investments under Section 186 of the Companies Act, 2013

Details of investments made by the Company in other company is enumerated in Note 7 and Note 18 of Financial Statement.

Auditors

The Statutory Auditors of your Company (being a ‘Government Company’), are appointed/ re-appointed by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) under Section 139 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.

Pursuant to Section 142 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 the remuneration of the Statutory Auditors for the year 2018-19 is to be determined by the members at the ensuing 17th Annual General Meeting.

Report of the Statutory Auditor

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for financial year ended 31st March 2018 does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark. Report of the Statutory Auditors is attached with the Financial Statement.

The office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG’) had decided to conduct supplementary audit of the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31st March 2018. The CAG has commented that nothing significant has come to their knowledge which would give rise to any comment upon or supplement to Statutory Auditors’ Report. The communication from the CAG in this regard is attached as Annexure 4.

Report of the Secretarial Auditor

The Company also appointed M/s N K & Associates, Practicing Company Secretaries, 159 Rabindra Sarani, 9th Floor, Kolkata 700007 as Secretarial Auditor in compliance with the provisions of Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Report of Secretarial Auditor is annexed and marked as Annexure 5. The response of management to the observations, qualification or remarks of the Secretarial Auditors is as under:

Adequacy of Internal financial controls

The Company has inter-alia taken the following measures to ensure that an adequate internal financial control exists :

- Appointment of Internal Auditor as per Section 138 read with Rule 13 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 as well as Secretarial Auditor as per Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013.

- The Company has adopted the following policies apart from the Code of Conduct applicable to Directors and Senior Management:

- ”Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions”,

- Policy for determining ‘Material subsidiaries’,

- ”Code of Practices and Procedures for Fair Disclosure of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information” and

- ”Code of Conduct to Regulate, Monitor and Report Trading by Insider”.

- The share transfer/transmission etc functions are audited by a practicing company secretary on a monthly basis.

Vigilance Cases

No vigilance cases were reported, disposed off nor there are any such cases pending during the year.

Appreciation

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas & and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by BL. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the members of the Company.

Registered Office: On behalf of Board of:

21, Netaji Subhas Road, Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

Kolkata-700 001

Date: 3rd August, 2018 [Shyam Sundar Khuntia] [Perin Devi]

Director Director

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Mar 31, 2015

Dear Members,

The Directors have the pleasure in presenting their 14th Annual Report along with the audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account for the financial year ended 31st March 2015 and other allied statements/disclosures as required as per the applicable statute.

Overview on the State of Company's Affairs

Your Company's performance is greatly dependent upon two factors, one, being the dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and the other being the interest received from deployment of surplus funds with scheduled commercial banks.

Though during the year under review, i.e., 2014-15, the bank interest rates decreased but due to increase in the amount of dividend, received from BL, the total income of your Company increased as compared to the last fiscal, i.e., 2013-14.

Comparative annual financial results for the year under review, i.e., 2014-15, and the immediately preceding year, i.e., 2013-14, has been furnished below:

Financial Results

(Rs. in Lacs)

Year ended on Year ended on 31st March 2015 31st March 2014

Profit before Tax 3769.47 3608.63

Less: Provision for Tax 200.00 170.00

Net Profit 3569.47 3438.63

Dividend

Your Directors are pleased to recommend for declaration at the ensuing 14th Annual General Meeting of your company a dividend of 125%, i.e., Rs. 12.50/- (Rupees twelve and paise fifty only) per Equity share of the face value Rs. 10/- each (fully paid-up), for the financial year ended 31st March 2015 [as against dividend @ 120%, i.e., Rs. 12/- (Rupees twelve only) per Equity share of the face value of Rs. 10/- each (fully paid-up) recommended and declared in the immediately preceding year, i.e., 2013-14]. Upon declaration by the members, dividend will be paid either by way of warrant, demand draft or NECS mode and will be paid to those Shareholders who would be holding shares in the Company as on the date of commencement of the book closing period i.e., as on 4 September 2015 (End of Day). In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as per details to be furnished by their respective Depositories, i.e., either Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. or National Securities Depository Ltd.

Appropriation

The amount available for appropriation is the sum total of Profit after Tax (PAT) and the balance Profit brought forward from the previous financial year(s). The amount available for appropriations for the financial year 2014- 15 as compared to the immediately preceding financial year 2013-14, are given hereunder:

(Rs. in Lacs)

2014-15 2013-14

PAT 3569.47 3438.63

Add: Balance Profit brought 341.39 254.15

forward from the preceeding financial year

Amount Available for 3910.86 3692.78

appropriations

The aforesaid amount available for appropriation for the financial year 2014-15 and 2013-14 has been/was appropriated in the following manner:

(Rs. in Lacs)

2014-15 2013-14

Dividend 2774.65 2663.67

(Rate in % ) (125%) (120%)

Corporate Tax on Dividend NIL NIL

Transfer to Reserve Fund 713.90 687.72

Surplus carried forward 422.32 341.39 to the next year

Deposits with Bank

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in various Fixed Deposit Schemes of the scheduled commercial Banks. As on 31st March 2015, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit Schemes stood at Rs. 7418 lacs, which in turn has yielded an interest income of Rs. 640.61 lacs.

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity, except, to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under 'Management Discussion and Analysis Report' are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies

In terms of Section 2(87) of Companies Act, 2013 ('the Act') your Company has three subsidiary companies, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., Balmer Lawrie (UK) Ltd. ('BLUK') and Visakhapatnam Port Logistics Park Limited (VPLPL). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.8%), your Company is the holding Company of BL. BL in turn has 2 subsidiaries BLUK and VPLPL.

Since the control in BL is intended to be temporary and there is no change of such intension, Consolidated financial statements of the Company with BL has not been prepared in terms of para 11(a) of Accounting Standard 21 (AS-21) issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Statement containing salient features of Financial Statement of subsidiaries as per first proviso to section 129 (3) in FORM AOC-1 is attached to the Financial Statement. However, separate audited accounts in respect of each of its subsidiary are placed on the website of the Company - www.blinv.com. Further, a copy of separate audited financial statements in respect of each of the subsidiary shall be provided to any shareholder of the company who asks for it. Since Financial Statements of the company have not been consolidated with subsidiaries/associates /joint ventures, report on performance and financial position of each of them as per Rule 8(1) of companies (Accounts) Rules 2014 is not required.

The Company has adopted policy for determining 'Material Subsidiaries' w.e.f 28 March 2015. The said policy is uploaded on the website of the Company- www.blinv.com.

Compliance of Right to Information Act, 2005

Information, which are mandatorily required to be disclosed under the RTI Act 2005, have been disclosed on the website of your Company. No applications seeking information under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act), has been received during the year.

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Since the Company does not have any business other than to hold shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. the reporting of Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption as per Rule 8(3) of Companies(Accounts) Rules 2014 is not applicable for your Company.

The details pertaining to Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo are enumerated as under:

NIL

Risk Management Policy

The Company does not have any business apart from holding the shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. offloaded by IBP Ltd. and is a Special Purpose Vehicle formed for temporary purpose. Hence, the requirement of laying down procedures for risk assessment and minimization is not applicable. Further, as per Para 4.1 of the Circular of SEBI bearing No. CIR/CFD/POLICY CELL/2/2014 dated 17th April, 2014, the requirement of 49(VI)(C) is not applicable to the Company as it does not fall within top 100 listed Companies by market capitalization.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Your Company has not made expenditure in CSR projects as per Section 135 of the Companies Act 2013 and applicable Rules and DPE Guidelines. It may be pertinent to mention in this regard that:

* The Company being a Special Purpose Vehicle was formed for a temporary purpose to hold the shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) offloaded by IBP Ltd. and does not carry on any business, other than holding 61.80% equity shares of BL and receiving dividend from BL.

* The Company does not have any employees of its own. The services of inter-alia Company Secretary who has been placed on secondment by BL is pursuant to a Service Agreement between the Company and BL.

* The Company does not have any functional directors as all the Directors are part-time non-executive directors. Further, the income of the Company is primarily the dividend received from BL which is a Company governed by Section 135 of Companies Act 2013 on CSR and makes the required expenditure on the same as per the applicable provisions.

* In the given constraints, it is not feasible to draft a Corporate Social Responsibility Policy or Action Plan or to oversee its implementation as the status and nature of the Company does not gel with concept of CSR

Directors' Responsibility Statement

Your Directors acknowledges and confirm that:

(i) In the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable Accounting Standards had been followed and there was no material departures;

(ii) The Directors had selected such Accounting Policies and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that were reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit and loss of the Company for the said financial year;

(iii) The Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provision of the Act, for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

(iv) The Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.

(v) The Directors had laid down internal financial controls to be followed by the Company and that such internal financial controls are adequate and were operating effectively.

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

Corporate Governance

Your Company has been consistently complying with the various regulations of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), including regulations on Corporate Governance, which is enumerated under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. Pursuant to the said SEBI regulations, a separate section titled 'Corporate Governance Report' is being furnished and marked as Annexure 1.

Your Company being a Government Company is also complying with the corporate governance norms of the Department of Public Enterprise (DPE), to the extent which is not included and does not contradict with SEBI guidelines.

Further, your Company's Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of the aforesaid SEBI Corporate Governance guidelines and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as Annexure 2.

Directors and meetings during the year

There has been considerable change in composition of the Board of Directors during the financial year under review. The details of the meetings of the Board during the year have been enumerated in the Corporate Governance Report Annexure 1.

Directors retired during the year

Shri P Kalyanasundaram had been long associated with the Company since 2008 as Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director. He was acting as the Chairman of the Board Meetings. The Company had received letter bearing reference no. C-31033/1/2012-CA/FTS:18688 dated 5th March, 2015 from Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG) vide which it was communicated that the nomination of Shri P Kalyanasundaram, [the then Joint Secretary in MoP&NG, who had earlier attained the superannuation age on 31st December, 2014 was withdrawn with immediate effect. Accordingly the cessation of Shri P Kalyanasundaram from the Board of Directors of the Company with effect from 5th March, 2015 due to withdrawal of nomination by MoP&NG was taken on record.

Shri Sukhvir Singh had also been long associated with the Company since 2010 as Non-Executive, Government Nominee Director of the Company. Shri Singh was acting as the Chairman of the Stakeholders Relationship Committee. The Company had received letter bearing reference no. C-31033/1/2012-CA/FTS:18688 dated 5th March, 2015 from Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG) vide which it was communicated that the nomination of Shri Sukhvir Singh [the then Director (E&S Division) in MoP&NG who had earlier attained the superannuation age on 30th November, 2014] was withdrawn with immediate effect. Accordingly the cessation of Shri Sukhvir Singh from the Board of Directors of the Company with effect from 5th March, 2015 due to withdrawal of nomination by MoP&NG, was taken on record.

Directors Appointed during the year

Shri Alok Chandra had been appointed Government Nominee Director of the Company with effect from 5th March, 2015 pursuant to the letter bearing reference no. C-31033/1/2012-CA/FTS:18688 dated 5th March, 2015 from Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG) vide which it was communicated to the Company that Shri Alok Chandra who is acting as Adviser (Finance), MoP&NG had been nominated as Government Director on the Board of the Company with immediate effect on co-terminus basis or until further order, whichever is earlier. The brief profile of Shri Chandra has been provided with the notice of the Annual General Meeting and explanatory statement thereof.

Smt Mary Jacob had been appointed as the Government Nominee Director of the Company with effect from 24th June, 2015 pursuant to the letter bearing reference no. C-31034/6/2015-CA-FTS:37868 dated 14th May, 2015 from Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG) vide which it was communicated that Smt. Mary Jacob, Deputy Secretary, MoP&NG having DIN NO. 07208084 had been nominated as Government Director on the Board of the Company with immediate effect or until further order. The brief profile of Smt. Jacob has been provided with the notice of the Annual General Meeting and explanatory statement thereof.

Shri Prabal Basu shall retire by rotation at the ensuing 14th Annual General Meeting of your Company. Your Company has received a communication from Shri Prabal Basu wherein he has expressed his willingness to continue as Director, if re-appointed by the shareholders. Therefore the proposal of re-appointment of Shri Basu on the Board has been included under Ordinary business of the Notice convening the ensuing 14th Annual General Meeting of your Company. Your Directors recommends passing of the requisite resolutions.

Related Party Transactions

The Company had adopted policy on "Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions" w.e.f. 28th March, 2015. The said policy has been uploaded on the website of the Company www.blinv.com.

Particulars of contracts and arrangements with related parties referred under section 188 (1)

The particulars of contracts and arrangements with related parties referred under section 188 (1) in the prescribed form as per section 134 (3) (h) of Companies Act, 2013 is as under:

Form No. AOC 2

1. Details of contracts and arrangements or transactions not at arm's length basis - NIL

(all the contracts and arrangements or transactions with Related Parties were on arm's length basis)

2. Details of material contracts or arrangement or transactions at arm's length basis - NIL (None of the transactions with related party can be considered as "material" as per the policy on - Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions adopted by the Company.

All contracts or arrangement entered into under Section 188(1) has been enumerated in details in Note no. 23 forming part of the financial statement as on 31th March, 2015.

Justification on the Related Party Transactions entered -

* In the year 2002, the Company for the purpose of infrastructure and management support entered into a service contract with its subsidiary Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), since the Company does not have any infrastructure arrangement or any employee. The said agreement is renewed from time to time pursuant to which the Company receives services in nature of administration, finance, taxation, legal, secretarial, etc from BL.

* The Company was formed as a Special Purpose Vehicle with no regular business activity on 20th September, 2001, with the sole objective of holding the Equity shares of BL, transferred / de-merged from IBP Co. Ltd. (under the scheme of Arrangement & Reconstruction).

* The major source of income of your Company is dividend earned from its subsidiary, BL.

Particulars of loans, guarantees or investments under section 186

Details of investments made by Company in other Company is enumerated in Note 7 & 18 of the Financial statement.

Auditors

The Statutory Auditors of your Company (being a 'Government Company'), are appointed/ re-appointed by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India ('CAG'), Section 139 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act 2013.

Pursuant to Section 142 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act 2013, the remuneration of the Statutory Auditors for the year 2014-15 is to be determined by the members at the ensuing 14th Annual General Meeting.

Reports of the Auditors

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for financial year ended 31st March 2015 does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark.

The office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India ('CAG') had conducted a supplementary audit of the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31st March, 2015. On the basis of the audit, CAG states nothing significant has come to its knowledge which would give rise to any comment upon or supplement to statutory auditors' report.

Report of the Statutory Auditors is attached with the Financial Statement. The comments of CAG is annexed and marked as Annexure 3.

The Company also appointed Secretarial Auditors in compliance with the provisions of Section 204 of Companies Act, 2013. The Report of Secretarial Auditors is annexed and marked as Annexure 4. The response of management to qualification, observations or remarks of the Secretarial Auditors is as under :

Serial Observation / Comment / Qualification of the No. Secretarial Auditors

1. During the year the company has filed some forms after the due date. Where these forms are filed late fees before expiry of period specified under Section 403 of the Companies Act, 2013, this should be reported as compliance by reference of payment of additional fees.

2. The Board of Directors of the Company is not duly constituted with proper balance of Executive Directors, Non-Executive Directors and Independent Directors. As on 31.03.2015, the Company had only two Directors on its Board.

3. The Company has not appointed Managing Director/ Whole time Director/Manager/CEO. The Company has not appointed a CFO for the reasons it does not have any Whole-time employee.

4. The company has not appointed Independent Director on its Board.

5. The Company has delayed in appointment of Internal

Auditor for 2014-15 after a period of six months from the close of financial year 2013-14.

6. The Company has not filed the resolution in Form MGT-14 with the Registrar of Company in respect of resolution passed for taking note of the disclosure of director's interest and shareholding in Board Meeting held on 29.05.2014 and 13.11.2015, as required under the provisions of the Section 179(3) (k) of the Companies Act, 2013.

7. The Company has not filed the resolution in Form MGT-14 with the Registrar of Company in respect of the Adoption of accounts and Boards Report for the Financial Year 2013-14, as required under the provisions of the Section 179(3) (g) of the Companies Act, 2013.

8. The Company has no Woman Director on its Board.

9. The Company has constituted Audit Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee but

the composition of both the committees are not as per Companies Act, 2013 and Clause 49 of Listing agreement.

10. The Company has not established Vigil Mechanism/ Whistle Blower as required under Section 177 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Clause 49 of Listing Agreement.

11. The Company has neither constituted CSR Committee nor has framed any CSR policy as required under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013.

12. The Company does not have any policy for prevention of Insider Trading as required under prevention of Insider Trading Regulation, 1992 except as mentioned under Code no. IV of Code of Conduct.

13. No separate meeting of Independent Directors was held as the company has no Independent Director

on its Board during the year under audit.

14. The Company has violated the provision of clause 49 of listing agreement relating to holding of Audit committee meetings as the company has exceeded the gap of four months between two Audit Committee meetings due to absence of quorum.

15. The company has made delay in approval of quarterly result for the quarter ended 31.12.2014.

16. The company has not filed form DIR-12 for cessation of Mr. Pandian Kalyanasundaram and Mr. Sukhvir Singh as the MCA has not accepted lesser number of directors below the prescribed limit of the Act.

17. The Company has not framed Remuneration Nomination and Evaluation policy and Risk Management policy.

Seri Clarification from the No. Management

1. The Management always endeavor to file the e-forms with within the due date. The cases of delay were mostly for the E-forms introduced by the new companies law wherein the position was not clear as to the requirement of filing such form.

2. We are a Government Company and as is evident from our shareholding pattern, President of India has a majority shareholding in our Company.

As per the Articles of Association of the Company so long as the Company remains a Government Company,

the President of India shall be entitled to appoint one or more person(s) to hold office as Director(s) on the Board and also to appoint one or more such Director(s) as Managing or Whole-time Director(s) of the Company. Accordingly, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, being the administrative Ministry directs us every time there is a change in appointment of Directors is required.

BLIL has no employee of its own except, the Company Secretary whose services have been seconded from its subsidiary pursuant to a Service Agreement between the Company and Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd.

It may be pertinent to mention that MCA vide GSR dated 5 June 2015 has exempted that : The provisions of sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of section 203 of the Companies Act 2013 shall not apply to a Managing Director or Chief Executive Officer or Manager and in their absence, a wholetime director of the Government Company."

3. Explained in Serial 2 above

4. We are a Government Company and as is evident from our shareholding pattern, President of India has a

majority shareholding in our Company.

As per the Articles of Association of the Company so long as the Company remains a Government Company, the President of India shall be entitled to appoint one or more person(s) to hold office as Director(s) on the Board and also to appoint one or more such Director(s) as Managing or Whole-time Director(s) of the Company. Accordingly, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, being the administrative Ministry directs us every time there is a change in appointment of Directors is required. The direction of the administrative Ministry is still awaited.

It may be pertinent to mention that MCA vide GSR dated 5th June, 2015 has changed the definition of the term "Independent Directors" as per Section 149 (6).

5. The appointment of the Internal Auditor was done in

Board meeting dated 28th March, 2015 after restoration of quorum on the Board.

6. This being a new requirement as per the new companies law, while it was not clear whether MGT-14 was required to be filed in such cases, subsequently MCA, vide notification dated 18th March, 2015, has omitted the aforesaid requirement from the Rules and hence now it is not required to file the declaration of interest resolution.

7. The approval of financial statement done by the Board was 2013-14. Ministry vide General Circular No. 08/2014 dated 4.4.2014 clarified matters pertaining to "Commencement of provisions of the Companies Act 2013 with regard to maintenance of books of accounts and preparations/ adoption/ filing of financial statements,auditors report, Board's report and attachments to such statements and reports- Applicability with regard to relevant financial Year." - where the Ministry stated that "although the position in this behalf is quite clear, to make things absolutely clear it is hereby notified that the financial statements (and documents required to be attached thereto), auditors report and Board's report in respect of financial years that commenced earlier than 1st April, 2014 shall be governed by the relevant provisions/ Schedules/ rules of the Companies Act, 1956 and that in respect of financial years commencing on or after 1st April, 2014, the provisions of the new Act shall apply."

Hence we were under the impression that the approval of account of FY 2013-14 shall not require filing of MGT-14 as per provisions of Companies Act 2013.

8. We are a Government Company and as is evident from

our shareholding pattern, President of India has a majority shareholding in our Company.

As per the Articles of Association of the Company so long as the Company remains a Government Company, the President of India shall be entitled to appoint one or more person(s) to hold office as Director(s) on the Board and also to appoint one or more such Director(s) as Managing or Whole-time Director(s) of the Company. Accordingly, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, being the administrative Ministry directs us every time there is a change in appointment of Directors is required. The direction of the administrative Ministry is still awaited. The Ministry has recently in FY 2015-16 nominated a woman director on the Board of the Company.

9. The Composition of the Committee is a fall out of Serial (1) and (2) above explanation to which has been given.

Fall in the number of members in the Audit Committee was due to vacancy of Government Nominee Directors on the Board of the Company. The same has been filled

up upon appointment of one woman director as per direction of the Ministry.

10. The Company does not have any employee and is a SPV and shell company hence the said mechanism does not seem to be practical and hence not established.

11. The Company does not have any employee and is a SPV and shell company and the income drawn by the same is through dividend paid to it by Balmer Lawrie Investments Limited to which Section 135 (CSR provisions) are applicable and interest income by depositing those funds in the bank for short term before distributing it to shareholders (major shareholder being President of India). Considering the definition of "Net profits" as per Rule 2 of Co.s (CSR Policy) Rules 2014, the requirement of CSR expenditure seems to be not applicable to the Company. Further, the Company being a SPV and having no employee monitoring the expenditure on CSR activities has its own practical difficulties.

12. The provisions regarding Insider Trading was covered under Code of conduct applicable to directors and senior management. The Company has also formulated separate policies in compliance of the new insider trading code.

13. Explained in Serial 1, 2 & 4.

14. Due to fall in the number of members in the Board below 2 owing to vacancy of Government Nominee Directors on the Board of the Company, the gap exceeded 4 months at once instance during the year under review,

15. Due to fall in the number of members in the Board below 2 owing to vacancy of Government Nominee Directors on the Board of the Company, the Board & Audit Committee meeting could not be held and hence the quarterly results of the 3rd Quarter could not be approved with 45 days from the end of the quarter.

16. The MCA system did not acceptied DIR12 of cessation of the two directors as it would lead to fall of directors below statutory minimum the same shall be tried to be filed after appointment of one more director.

17. The Company has, vide resolution dated 28th March, 2015 formed a nomination and remuneration Committee. However, Ministry of Petroleum Natural Gas determines all the appointment of the Directors on the Board of the Company. Further, none of the Directors receive any remuneration / compensation from the Company. The Company being a Special Purpose Vehicle formed only to hold the shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. offloaded by IBP Ltd. does not have any employees of its own. The services of inter-alia Company Secretary who has been placed on secondment by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BLCL) is pursuant to a Service Agreement between the Company and BLCL.

In the given situation the role of Nomination and Remuneration Committee is expected to be limited but is still recommended to be formed to comply with the provisions of the Companies Act 2013 and Listing Agreement with Stock Exchanges.

Consideration may also be given to exemption given to Govt Co.s by the MCA vide notification dated 5th June, 2015 that Section 178(2), (3) and (4) shall not apply to Government company except with regard to appointment of senior management and other employees.

Adequacy of Internal financial controls

The Company has inter-alia taken the following measures to ensure that an adequate internal financial control exists :

* Appointment of internal auditor as per Section 138 read with Rule 13 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.

* The Company has adopted the following policies apart from the Code of Conduct applicable to Directors and Senior Management:

* "Materiality of Related Party Transactions and dealing with Related Party Transactions",

* Policy for determining 'Material subsidiaries',

* "Code of Practices and Procedures for Fair Disclosure of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information" and

* "Code of Conduct to Regulate, Monitor and Report Trading by Insider".

Appreciation

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas & and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by BL. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the members of the Company.

On behalf of Board of: Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

Registered Office: 21, Netaji Subhas Road, Kolkata-700 001 Prabal Basu Mary Jacob Chairman Director

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Mar 31, 2014

Dear Members,

The Directors have the pleasure in presenting their 13th Report along with the audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account for the financial year ended 31st March 2014.

Indian Economy

India''s services sector that remained resilient even during and immediately after the global financial crisis buckled under the pressure of continued global and domestic slowdown, resulting in sub-normal growth in the last two years. However, early shoots of revival are visible in 2014-15 with signs of improvement in world GDP growth and trade also reflected in pick-up in some key services like IT, aviation, transport logistics, and retail trading.

In 2014-15, the Indian economy is poised to overcome the sub-5 per cent growth of gross domestic product (GDP) witnessed over the last two years. The growth slowdown in the last two years was broad based, affecting in particular the industry sector. Yet, the developments on the macro stabilization front, particularly the dramatic improvement in the external economic situation with the current account deficit (CAD) declining to manageable levels after two years of worryingly high level was the redeeming feature of 2013-14. Moderation in inflation would help ease the monetary policy stance and revive the confidence of investors, and with the global economy expected to recover moderately, particularly on account of performance in some advanced economies, the economy can look forward to better growth prospects in 2014-15 and beyond.

Performance of the Company

Your Company''s performance is greatly dependent upon two factors, one, being the dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and the other being the interest received from deployment of surplus funds with scheduled commercial banks.

Though during the year under review, i.e., 2013-14, the bank interest rates decreased but due to increase in the amount of dividend, received from BL, the total income of your Company increased as compared to the last fiscal, i.e., 2012-13.

Comparative annual financial results for the year under review, i.e., 2013-14, and the immediately preceding year, i.e., 2012-13, has been furnished below:

Financial Results (Rs. in lakhs) Year ended on 31st March

2014 2013

Profit before Tax 3608.63 3260.83

Provision for Tax 170.00 149.00

Net Profit 3438.63 3111.83

Dividend

Your Directors are pleased to recommend for declaration at the ensuing 13th Annual General Meeting of your company a dividend of 120%, i.e., Rs. 12/- (Rupees twelve only) per Equity share of the face value Rs. 10/- each (fully paid-up), for the financial year ended 31st March 2014 [as against dividend @ 110%, i.e., Rs. 11/- (Rupees eleven only) per Equity share of the face value of Rs. 10/- each (fully paid- up) recommended and declared in the immediately preceding year, i.e., 2012-13]. Upon declaration by the members, dividend will be paid either by way of warrant, demand draft or NECS mode and will be paid to those Shareholders who would be holding shares in the Company as on 17th September 2014, EOD. In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as per details to be furnished by their respective Depositories, i.e., either Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. or National Securities Depository Ltd.

Appropriation

The amount available for appropriation is the sum total of Profit after Tax (PAT) and the balance Profit brought forward from the previous financial year(s).

The amount available for appropriations for the financial year 2013-14 as compared to the immediately preceeding financial year 2012-13, are given hereunder: (Rs. in lakhs) 2013-14 2012-13

PAT 3438.63 3,111.83

Add: Balance Profit brought forward from the preceeding financial year 254.15 206.39

Amount Available for appropriations 3692.78 3318.22

The aforesaid amount available for appropriation for the financial year 2013-14 and 2012-13 has been/was appropriated in the following manner:

(Rs. in lakhs) 2013-14 2012-13

Dividend 2663.67 2441.70

(Rate in % ) (120%) (110%)

Corporate Tax on Dividend NIL Nil

Transfer to Reserve Fund 687.72 622.37 Surplus carried forward

to the next year 341.39 254.15

Deposits with Bank

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in various Fixed Deposit Schemes of the scheduled commercial Banks. As on 31st March 2014, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit Schemes stood at Rs. 6500.00 lacs, which in turn has yielded an interest income of Rs. 556.78 lacs.

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity, except, to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under ''Management Discussion and Analysis Report'' are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies

In terms of Sections 4(1)(b)(ii) and 4(1)(c) of the Companies Act, 1956 (''the Act'') your Company has three subsidiary companies, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd., Balmer Lawrie (UK) Ltd. (''BLUK'') and Vizag Logistics Park Limited (''VLPL''). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.8%), your Company is the holding Company of BL. BL in turn has 2 subsidiaries BLUK and VLPL.

Pursuant to General Circular No. 2/2011 (Ref. no. 5/12/2007 - CL III) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, the provisions of attachment of certain documents in respect of the subsidiary/ies shall not apply to a holding company, if the holding company fulfills the conditions stipulated in the aforesaid circular, including obtaining consent of its Board of Directors. Your Company is not required to consolidate its accounts with the accounts of its subsidiaries, which is one of the conditions needs to be fulfilled to avail the aforesaid exemption. Therefore your Company is not entitled to avail the aforesaid exemption. We understand that BL has complied with the conditions, including obtaining consent from its Board of Directors for non-attachment of its subsidiary''s accounts. However, such accounts have been duly consolidated in terms of the applicable accounting standards and have been shown translated into Indian Rupee.

Compliance of Right to Information Act,2005

The Right to Information Act, 2005 (''the RTI Act'') is applicable to your Company. Information, which are mandatorily required to be disclosed under the RTI Act, have been disclosed in the website of your Company. Your Company submits RTI returns within the prescribed time line to the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India. Your Company has received NIL applications seeking information under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act), and there was no such instance of appeal before the RTI Appellate Authority.

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Section 217(1)(e) of the Companies Act, 1956 read with Rule 2 of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of the Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, dealing with the aforesaid disclosures, are not applicable to your Company.

Particulars of Employees

Your Company has no employee in the category to report under Section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975.

Your Directors acknowledges the responsibility for ensuring compliance with the provisions of Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, in preparation of the Annual Accounts of your Company for the financial year ended 31st March 2014 and confirm that:

(i) In the preparation of the accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2014, the applicable Accounting Standards have been followed and there was no material departure from such standards;

(ii) The Directors have selected such Accounting Policies and applied them consistently and made judgment and estimates that were reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at the end of the financial year on 31st March 2014 and of the Profit of the Company for the said financial year;

(iii) The Directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provision of the Act, for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

(iv) The Directors have prepared the Accounts for the financial year ended on 31st March 2014, on a ''Going Concern Basis''.

Consolidated Financial statement

Your Company''s investment in the Equity share capital of its subsidiary, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (''BL''), is intended to be temporary and as of now there is no change in such intention. Thus, in terms of paragraph 11(a) of the Accounting Standard - 21, issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (''ICAI'') the annual financial statement of your Company has not been consolidated with the financial statement of its subsidiary, i.e., BL and group companies of BL, i.e., subsidiaries and joint ventures of BL, which in turn fall under the same group that of your Company.

Unlike your Company, the investments of BL, in the equity share capital of its subsidiary and joint venture companies are not temporary and therefore BL, in terms of the Accounting Standards 21 and 27 issued by ICAI read with Clause 32 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges, has consolidated its financial statement with that of its subsidiary and joint venture companies, which has been duly audited by BL''s Statutory Auditors. In order to provide an insight about the group''s financial performance, such Consolidated Financial Statement of BL together with the Report of the Auditors, is annexed hereto.

Corporate Governance

Your Company has been consistently complying with the various regulations of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), including regulations on Corporate Governance, which is enumerated under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. Pursuant to the said SEBI regulations, a separate section titled ''Report on Corporate Governance'' is being furnished and marked as annexure 1.

Your Company being a Government Company is also complying with the corporate governance norms of the Department of Public Enterprise (DPE), to the extent which is not included and does not contradict with SEBI guidelines.

Further, your Company''s Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of the aforesaid SEBI corporate governance guidelines and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as Annexure 2.

Your Directors in respect of Independent Directors would like to clarify and confirm that the Administrative Ministry of your Company, namely. Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG) has initiated steps to induct Independent Directors, on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of your Company, which the Statutory Auditors have already covered in its aforesaid report.

Directors

There has been no change in composition of the Board of Directors.

Shri Sukhvir Singh shall retire by rotation at the ensuing 13th Annual General Meeting of your Company. Your Company has received a communication from Shri Sukhvir Singh wherein he has expressed his willingness to continue as Director, if re-appointed by the shareholders. Therefore the proposal of re- appointment of Shri Singh on the Board has been included under Ordinary business of the Notice convening the ensuing 13th Annual General Meeting of your Company. Your Directors recommends passing of the requisite resolution.

Auditors

The Statutory Auditors of your Company (being a ''Government Company''), are appointed/ re-appointed by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (''CAG''), Section 619 read with Section 224(8)(aa) of the Companies Act, 1956 and Section 139 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act 2013.

Pursuant to Section 224(8)(aa) read with Section 619 of the Companies Act, 1956 and Section 142 and other applicable provisions of the Companies Act 2013, the remuneration of the Auditors for the year 2014-15 is to be determined by the members at the ensuing 13th Annual General Meeting.

Reports of the Auditors

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for financial year ended 31st March 2014 does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark.

The office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (''CAG'') had conducted a supplementary audit under Section 619(3) (b) of the Companies Act, 1956 of the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2014. On the basis of the audit, CAG states that nothing significant has come to its knowledge which would give rise to any comment upon or supplement to statutory auditor''s report under section 619(4) of the Companies Act, 1956.

Reports of the Statutory Auditors and comments of CAG is annexed as Annexure 3.

Appreciation

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas & and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by BL. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the members of the Company.

On behalf of Board of: Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

[P.Kalyanasundaram] [Sukhvir Singh] [Prabal Basu] Chairman Director Director

Registered Office: 21, Netaji Subhas Road, Kolkata-700 001

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Mar 31, 2013

To the Members,

The Directors have the pleasure in presenting their 12th Report along with the audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account for the financial year ended 31st March 2013.

Indian Economy

India economy is the 9th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest economy by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). India is the 19th largest exporter and 10th largest importer of the world and is one of the G-20 major economies and a member of BRICS nations.

The year under review, i.e., 2012-13, had been a difficult year for the Indian economy. The economy of the country slowed down further and registered a GDP growth of 5.0% as compared to 6.2% in the previous fiscal, i.e., 2011-12. All the sectors of the economy, i.e., manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors, witnessed a slowdown.

However, the Indian economy is expected to have brighter prospects during the current fiscal, 2013-14. During the current fiscal, i.e., 2013-14, the Government of India is expecting a GDP growth of 6.1% to 6.7%.

Performance of the Company

Your Company''s performance is greatly dependent upon two factors, one, being the dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and the other being the interest received from deployment of surplus funds with scheduled commercial banks.

Though during the year under review, i.e., 2012-13, the bank interest rates declined but due to increase in the amount of dividend, received from BL, the total income of your Company increased as compared to the last fiscal, i.e., 2011-12.

Comparative annual financial results for the year under review, i.e., 2012-13, and the immediately preceding year, i.e., 2011-12, has been furnished below:

Financial Results

(Rs. in lakhs)

Year ended on 31st March

2013 2012

Profit before Tax 3260.83 2998.28

Provision for Tax 149.00 155.00

Net Profit 3111.83 2843.28

Dividend

Your Directors are pleased to recommend for declaration at the ensuing 12th Annual General Meeting (‘AGM'') of your Company a dividend of 110%, i.e., Rs. 11/- (Rupees Eleven only) per Equity Share of the face value of Rs. 10/- each (fully paid-up), for the financial year ended 31st March 2013 [as against dividend @ 100%, i.e., Rs. 10/- (Rupees Ten only) per Equity share of the face value of Rs. 10/- each (fully paid-up) recommended and declared in the immediately preceeding financial year, i.e., 2011-12]. Upon declaration by the members, dividend will be paid either by way of warrant, demand draft or NECS mode and will be paid to those Shareholders who would be holding shares in the Company as on the date of commencement of the book closing period i.e., as on 17th September 2013. In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as per details to be furnished by their respective Depositories, i.e., either, Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. or National Securities Depository Ltd.

Appropriation

The amount available for appropriation is the sum total of Profit after Tax (PAT) and the balance Profit brought forward from the previous financial year(s).

The amount available for appropriation for the financial year 2012-13 as compared to the immediately preceeding financial year 2011-12, are given hereunder:

(Rs. in lakhs) 2012-13 2011-12

PAT 3111.83 2843.28 Add: Balance Profit brought forward from the preceeding financial year 206.39 169.50

Amount Available for appropriations 3318.22 3012.78

The aforesaid amount available for appropriation for the financial year 2012-13 and 2011-12 has been/was appropriated in the following manner:

(Rs. in lakhs)

2012-13 2011-12

Dividend 2441.70 2219.73

(Rate in %) (110%) (100%)

Corporate Tax on Dividend Nil Nil

Transfer to Reserve Fund 622.37 586.66

Surplus carried forward 254.15 206.39 to the next year

Deposits with Bank

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in various Fixed Deposit Schemes of the scheduled commercial Banks. As on 31st March 2013, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit Schemes stood at Rs. 5549.90 lacs, which in turn has yielded an interest income of Rs. 484.45 lacs.

Management Discussion & Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity, except, to hold the Equity Shares of its subsidiaries i.e., BL and accordingly matters to be covered under ‘Management Discussion & Analysis Report'' are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies

In terms of Sections 4(1)(b)(ii) and 4(1)(c) of the Companies Act, 1956 (‘the Act'') your Company has two subsidiary companies, viz., Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (‘BL'') and Balmer Lawrie (UK) Ltd. (‘BLUK''). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.8%), your Company is the holding Company of the former. BL at present has one foreign subsidiary, namely BLUK, which in turn under Section 4(1)(c) of the Act is also the subsidiary of your Company.

Pursuant to General Circular No. 2/2011 (Ref. no. 5/12/2007 – CL III) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, the provisions of attachment of the Reports & Accounts of the subsidiary/ies shall not apply to a holding company, if the holding company fulfills the conditions stipulated in the aforesaid circular, including obtaining consent of its Board of Directors. Since your Company is not required to consolidate its accounts with the accounts of its subsidiaries (which is one of the conditions needs to be fulfilled to avail the aforesaid exemption) therefore your Company is not entitled to avail the aforesaid exemption. We understand that BL has complied with the conditions, including obtaining consent from its Board of Directors for non-attachment of its subsidiary''s accounts. However, such accounts have been duly consolidated in terms of the applicable accounting standards and have been shown translated into Indian Rupee.

Compliance of Right to Information Act, 2005

The Right to Information Act, 2005 (‘the RTI Act'') is applicable to your Company. Information, which are mandatorily required to be disclosed under the RTI Act, have been disclosed in the website of your Company. Your Company submits monthly as well as annual RTI returns within the prescribed time line to the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India. Your Company during the fiscal under review had received two applications under the RTI Act, which were duly catered to within the statutory timeline.

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Section 217 (1) (e) of the Act read with Rule 2 of the

Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of the Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, dealing with the aforesaid disclosures, are not applicable to your Company.

Particulars of Employees

Your Company has no employee in the category to report under Section 217 (2A) of the Act, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975.

Directors'' Responsibility Statement

Your Directors acknowledges the responsibility for ensuring compliance with the provisions of Section 217 (2AA) of the Act, in preparation of the Annual Accounts of your Company for the financial year ended 31st March 2013 and confirm that:

(i) In the preparation of the Accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2013, the applicable Accounting Standards have been followed and there was no material departure from such standards;

(ii) The Directors have selected such Accounting Policies and applied them consistently and made judgment and estimates that were reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at the end of the financial year on 31st March 2013 and of the Profit of the Company for the said financial year;

(iii) 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;

(iv)The Directors have prepared the Accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2013, on a ‘Going Concern Basis''.

Consolidated Financial Statement

Your Company''s investment in the Equity Share capital of its subsidiary, i.e., BL, is intended to be temporary and as of now there is no change in such intention. Thus, in terms of Paragraph 11(a) of the Accounting Standard 21, issued by the ‘Institute of Chartered Accountants of India'' (‘ICAI'') the annual financial statement of your Company has not been consolidated with the financial statement of its subsidiary, i.e., BL and group companies of BL, i.e., subsidiaries and joint ventures of BL, which in turn fall under the same group that of your Company.

Unlike your Company, the investments of BL, in the Equity Share capital of its subsidiary and joint venture companies are not temporary and therefore BL, in terms of the Accounting Standards 21 and 27 issued by ICAI read with Clause 32 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges, has consolidated its financial statement with that of its subsidiary and joint venture companies, which has been duly audited by BL''s Statutory Auditors. In order to provide an insight about the group''s financial performance, such Consolidated Financial Statement of BL together with the Report of the Auditors, is annexed hereto.

Corporate Governance

Your Company has been consistently complying with the various regulations of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), including regulations on Corporate Governance, which is enumerated under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. Pursuant to the said SEBI regulations, a separate section titled ‘Corporate Governance Report'' is being furnished and marked Annexure 1.

Your Company being a Government Company is also complying with the Corporate Governance Norms of the Department of Public Enterprise (DPE), to the extent which is not included and does not contradict with SEBI Guidelines.

Further, your Company''s Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of the aforesaid SEBI Corporate Governance Guidelines and issued a Certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked Annexure 2.

Your Directors in respect of the independent directors, would like to clarify and confirm that the Administrative Ministry of your Company, namely. Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India (MOP&NG) has initiated steps to induct independent Directors, on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of your Company, which the Statutory Auditors have already covered in its aforesaid report.

Directors

There has been a change in composition of the Board of Directors.

Shri K. Subramanyan, an ex-officio member, upon retirement from the services of BL on attaining the age of superannuation [was the Director (Finance) of BL] resigned from the Board with effect from the close of business hour on 30th November 2012. Your Directors record its appreciation for the valuable services rendered by Shri Subramanyan during his tenure.

Shri Prabal Basu [taking over the charge as Director (Finance) of BL], in terms of the letter no. P-21014/1/ 2006-Mkt. dated 16th October 2010 of MOP&NG was appointed an Additional Director of your Company with effect from 1st December 2012. Shri Basu in terms of Section 260 of the Act, shall hold office till the ensuing AGM of the Company. A Notice together with a deposit of Rs. 500/- has been received from a shareholder under Section 257 of the Act, proposing the appointment of Shri Basu as a Director of the Company whose period of office shall be subject to retirement of Directors by rotation. The said proposal shall need to be approved by the shareholders and therefore the same has been included under Special business of the Notice convening the ensuing 12th AGM of your Company. Your Directors recommend passing of the requisite resolution by ordinary majority.

Shri P. Kalyanasundaram shall retire by rotation at the ensuing 12th AGM of your Company. Your Company has received a communication from Shri P Kalyanasundaram wherein he has expressed his willingness to continue as Director, if re-appointed by the shareholders. Therefore, the proposal of re-appointment of Shri Kalyanasundaram on the Board has been included under ordinary business of the Notice convening the ensuing 12th AGM of your Company. Your Directors recommend passing of the requisite resolution by ordinary majority.

Auditors

Pursuant to Section 619(2) of the Act, the Statutory Auditors of your Company are appointed/re-appointed by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG''). Further, pursuant to Section 619(2) read with Section 224(8)(aa) of the Act, though the appointment/re-appointment of the Statutory Auditors shall be done by CAG but the remuneration shall be fixed by the shareholders at the General Meeting. Therefore, the remuneration payable to the Statutory Auditors appointed/re-appointed by CAG for the financial year 2013- 14 is to be fixed by the shareholders at the ensuing 12th AGM of your Company.

Reports of the Auditors

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for financial year ended 31st March 2013 does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark.

The office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (‘CAG'') has decided not to review the report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for the financial year ended 31st March 2013 and therefore has no comment to make under Section 619(4) of the Companies Act, 1956.

Reports of the Statutory Auditors and CAG are annexed hereto.

Appreciation

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by MOP&NG and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by BL. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the members of the Company.

On behalf of Board of:

Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

Registered Office: P. Kalyanasundaram

21, Netaji Subhas Road, Chairman

Kolkata-700 001 Sukhvir Singh Prabal Basu

14th August 2013 Directors

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Mar 31, 2012

The Directors have the pleasure in presenting their 11th Annual Report together with the audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account (together with Notes thereon) for the financial year ended 31st March 2012.

Indian Economy

India economy is the eleventh largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest economy by purchasing power parity (PPP).The country is one of the G-20 major economies and a member of BRICS nations.

India recorded its highest growth in mid-2000s, and is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. In terms of per capita income, India since its independence has recorded a growth of over 200 times. The growth was primarily due to huge increase in the size of the middle class consumer, large labour force and considerable foreign investments. India is the nineteenth largest exporter and tenth largest importer in the world.

During the fiscal 2011-12, economic growth rate declined and stood at around 6.5%. The fall is mainly because of poor performance of secondary sector which grew by a mere 2.8%. However, service sector was unaffected by the global slowdown and grew by 9.4%.

Company's Performance

You may agree to the fact that performance of your Company is greatly dependent upon two issues, one being, amount of dividend received from its subsidiary, viz., Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. ('BL') and the other, being the interest received from deployment of surplus funds with scheduled commercial banks. During the year under review, the bank interest rates increased as compared to the immediately preceeding financial year, 2010-11. Further, the quantum of dividend received from the Company's subsidiary, i.e., BL, during the year under review was more as compared to the immediately preceeding financial year, i.e., 2010- 11. Increase in both, bank interest rates and quantum of dividend, yielded more Profit during the year under review.

Financial performance of your Company for the year under review, 2011-12, as compared to the immediately preceeding year, i.e., 2010-11, has been enumerated below:

Financial Results

(Rs. in lakhs)

Year ended on 31st March

2012 2011

Profit before Tax 2998.28 2484.64

Provision for Tax 155.00 61.82

Net Profit 2843.28 2422.82

Dividend

Your Directors are pleased to recommend, for declaration (at the ensuing 11th Annual General Meeting of your Company), dividend @ 100%, i.e., Rs.10 (Rupees Ten only) per Equity share of face value of Rs.10/- each (fully paid-up), for the financial year ended 31st March 2012 [as against dividend @ 85%, i.e., Rs.8.50 (Rupee Eight and paise fifty only) per Equity share of face value of Rs. 10/- each (fully paid-up) recommended and declared in the immediately preceeding year, i.e., 2010-11]. Upon the aforesaid declaration by the members, dividend will be paid to those Shareholders who would be holding shares in the Company as on the date of commencement of the Book Closing period, i.e., as on 19th September 2012. In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners, as per details to be furnished by their respective Depositories, i.e., either Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. or National Securities Depository Ltd.

Appropriation

The amount available for appropriation is the sum total of Profit after Tax (PAT) and the balance Profit brought forward from the immedietely preceeding financial year.

The amount available for appropriations for the financial year 2011-12 and 2010-11, are given hereunder:

(Rs. in lakhs)

2011-12 2010-11

PAT 2843.28 2422.82

Add: Balance Profit brought forward from the immediately preceeding financial year 169.50 118.02

Amount Available for Appropriations 3012.78 2540.84

The aforesaid amount available for appropriations for the financial year 2011-12 and 2010-11 was/has been appropriated in the following manner:

(Rs. in lakhs)

2011-12 2010-11

Dividend 2219.73 1886.77 (recommended)

(Rate in %) (100%) (85%)

Corporate Tax on Dividend Nil Nil

Transfer to Reserve Fund 586.66 484.57

Balance carried forward to the next year 206.39 169.50

Deposits with Bank

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in the Fixed Deposit Schemes of the scheduled commercial Banks. As on 31st March 2012, the total amount of deployments in the Fixed Deposit Schemes stood at Rs.4790.00 lacs, which in turn, yielded an interest income of Rs.422.96 lacs.

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity, except, to hold the equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under 'Management Discussion and Analysis Report' are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies

In terms of Sections 4(1)(b)(ii) and 4(1)(c) of the Companies Act, 1956 ('the Act') your Company has two subsidiary companies, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. ('BL') and Balmer Lawrie (UK) Ltd. ('BLUK'). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.8%), your Company is the holding Company of the former. BL in turn at present has one foreign subsidiary, namely BLUK, which in turn under Section 4(1)(c) of the Act, is also the subsidiary company of your Company.

Pursuant to General Circular No. 2/2011 (Ref. no. 5/12/2007 - CL III) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, the provisions of attachment of the accounts of the subsidiary (ies) shall not apply to a holding company, if the holding company fulfills the conditions stipulated in the aforesaid circular, including obtaining consent of its Board of Directors. Your Company is not required to consolidate its accounts with the accounts of its subsidiaries, which is one of the conditions need to be fulfilled to avail the aforesaid exemption. Therefore your company is not entitled to avail the aforesaid exemption. We understand that BL has complied with the conditions, including obtaining consent from its Board of Directors for non-attachment of its subsidiary's accounts. However, such accounts have been duly consolidated in terms of the applicable accounting standards and have been shown translated into Indian Rupees.

Compliance of Right to Information Act, 2005

The Right to information Act, 2005 ('the RTI Act') is applicable to your Company. In accordance with the provisions of the RTI Act, various disclosures of information, which are mandatory, have been set out on the website of your Company. Additionally, your Company furnishes monthly as well as annually RTI returns within the prescribed time line to the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India. Status of applications received under the RTI Act, is given under Disclosure of the annexed 'Report on Corporate Governance'.

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Section 217 (1) (e) of the Companies Act, 1956 read with Rule 2 of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of the Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, dealing with the aforesaid disclosures, are not applicable to your Company.

Particulars of Employees

Your Company has no employee in the category to report under Section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975.

Directors' Responsibility Statement

Your Directors acknowledges the responsibility for ensuring compliance with the provisions of Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, in preparation of the Annual Accounts of your Company for the financial year ended 31st March 2012 and confirm that:

(i) In the preparation of the accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2012, the applicable Accounting Standards have been followed and there was no material departure from such standards;

(ii) The Directors have selected such Accounting Policies and applied them consistently and made judgment and estimates that were reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at the end of the financial year on 31st March 2012 and of the Profit of the Company for the said financial year;

(iii) 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; and

(iv) The Directors have prepared the Accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2012, on a 'Going Concern basis'.

Consolidated Financial Statement

Your Company's investment in the Equity share capital of its subsidiary, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. ('BL'), is intended to be temporary and as of now there is no change in such intention. Thus, in terms of paragraph 11(a) of the Accounting Standard - 21, issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ('ICAI') the annual financial statement of your Company has not been consolidated with the financial statement of BL and group companies of BL, i.e., subsidiaries and joint ventures of BL, which in turn fall under the same group that of your Company.

Unlike your Company, the investments of BL, in the equity share capital of its subsidiary and joint venture companies are not temporary and therefore BL, in terms of the Accounting Standards 21 and 27 issued by ICAI read with Clause 32 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges, has consolidated its financial statement with that of its subsidiary and joint venture companies, which has been duly audited by BL's Statutory Auditors. In order to provide an insight about the group's financial performance, such Consolidated Financial Statement of BL together with the Report of the Auditors, is annexed hereto.

Corporate Governance

Since the days of initial listing with the Stock Exchanges, which was way back in the year-end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003, your Company has been consistently complying with the various regulations of the Securities & Exchange Board of India ('SEBI'), including regulations on Corporate Governance, which is enumerated under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. Pursuant to the said SEBI regulations, a separate section titled 'Report on Corporate Governance' is being furnished and marked Annexure 1.

Your Company being a Government Company is also complying with the corporate governance norms of the Department of Public Enterprise (DPE), to the extent which is not included and does not contradict with SEBI guidelines.

Further, your Company's Statutory Auditors have examined compliance of the aforesaid SEBI corporate governance guidelines and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked Annexure 2.

Your Directors in respect of independent directors would like to clarify and confirm that the Administrative Ministry of your Company, namely. Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India (MOP&NG) has initiated steps to induct independent Directors on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of your Company, which the Statutory Auditors have already covered in its aforesaid report.

Directors

There has been no change in composition of the Board of Directors.

Shri Sukhvir Singh, a Government Nominee, was appointed as a Director of your Company on 7th June 2010. Shri Singh will retire by rotation at the ensuing 11th Annual General Meeting of your Company. Meanwhile your Company has received a communication from Shri Singh, wherein he has expressed his willingness to be re-appointed, as Director of your Company. Your Directors recommend the re- appointment of Shri Singh and accordingly the said proposal has been included in the Notice of the ensuring 11th Annual General Meeting of your Company.

Auditors

The Statutory Auditors of your Company (being a Government Company), are appointed/re-appointed by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India ('CAG'), in terms of Section 619(2) of the Companies Act, 1956. The remuneration of the Auditor for the year 2012-13, is to be determined by the Members at the ensuing 11th Annual General Meeting as per Sections 224(8) (aa) and 619 of the Companies Act, 1956

Auditors Report

The Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for financial year ended 31st March 2012, does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark.

Report of the Statutory Auditors is annexed hereto.

Comments of Comptroller & Auditor General of India('CAG')

CAG had decided not to review the Auditors Report on Annual Accounts of your Company for the financial year ended 31st March 2012 and therefore has no comment to make under Section 619(4) of the Companies Act, 1956 Comments of CAG is annexed hereto.

Appreciation

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by MOP&NG and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by BL. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the members of the Company.

On behalf of the Board

Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd.

Registered Office: P. Kalyanasundaram

21, Netaji Subhas Road, Chairman

Kolkata-700 001 Sukhvir Singh, Director

Date : 17th August 2012 K. Subramanyan, Director

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Mar 31, 2011

To the Members,

The Directors have the pleasure in presenting their 10th Annual Report together with the audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account for the financial year ended 31st March 2011.

Socio Economic Environment

India is one of the world's fastest growing economies. Our country offers several economic advantages to its nationals as well as foreign investors. The Country's rise as an Asian economic powerhouse over the years has been quite remarkable. Economic conditions in India have become quite conducive towards meeting the wants of a wider cross section of people.

With economic liberalization of India in 1990s, the nation started generating a lot of interest among foreign investors. A rapidly developing economy coupled with favorable attitude of the Government of India towards foreign investors, have attracted substantial foreign direct investments to India.

Ernst & Young had carried out a survey in June 2008, which identified India as the fourth most attractive investment destination of the world. All this augurs well for the Indian economy.

On the downside, inflation in India is a matter of serious concern and rose to more than 13 percent in June 2010. But due to Government measures and role played by the Reserve Bank of India, high inflation was brought down to a level of about 8.62 percent in June 2011.

Company's Performance

The performance of your Company is greatly dependent upon two issues, one being, amount of dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. ('BL') and the other being interest received from deployment of its surplus funds with scheduled commercial banks. In other words, financial performance of BL and interest prevailing at the time of deployment of surplus funds, are two issues, which are central to the performance of your Company. The interest rates have increased slightly as compared to the previous year 2009- 10. The quantum of dividend received from the subsidiary, for the financial year 2010-11, too was higher as compared to the dividend received during the financial year 2009-10. The above two factors have contributed higher profit for the financial year 2010-11, as compared to the Profit for the financial year 2009-10.

Financial performance of your Company, for the year under review, 2010-11, as compared to the immediately preceding year, i.e., 2009-10, is enumerated below:

Financial Results

(Rs. in lakhs)

Year ended on 31st March

2011 2010

Surplus for the year before Tax 2484.64 2170.24

Provision for Taxation 61.82 59.03

Net Profit 2422.82 2111.21

Dividend

Your Directors are now pleased to recommend, for declaration, a dividend of Rs. 8.50 (Rupees Eight and paise fifty only) per Equity share of Rs. 10/- each, fully paid-up, i.e., 85%, for the financial year ended 31st March 2011, as against dividend of Rs. 7.60 (Rupees Seven and paise Sixty only) per Equity share of Rs. 10/- each, fully paid-up, paid in the previous financial year ended 31st March 2010. Subject to declaration at the ensuing Tenth Annual General Meeting, dividend will be paid to those Shareholders who are holding the shares as on the date of the commencement of the Book closing period, i.e., on 16th September 2011. In respect of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners - as per details furnished by the Depositories, i.e., Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. and National Securities Depository Ltd.

Appropriations

Balance Profit amounting to Rs. 118.02 lacs, has been brought forward from the financial year 2009-10. This together with Net Profit for the financial year 2010-11, aggregates to Rs. 2540.84 lacs, which has been appropriated as given hereunder, against the backdrop of the appropriations of Rs. 2227.26 lacs, for the immediately preceeding financial year 2009-10:

Appropriations (Rs. in lakhs)

Year ended on 31st March

2011 2010

Proposed dividend @ Rs. 8.50 1886.77 1686.99 (Rupees Eight and paise fifty only) per Equity share [Previous year dividend @ Rs. 7.60 (Rupees Seven and paise sixty only) per Equity share of Rs. 10/- each fullypaid-up, was declared]

Corporate Tax on Dividend 0 0

Transfer to Reserve Fund 484.57 422.25

Surplus carried forward to the next year 169.50 118.02

Deposits with Banks

Surplus funds of the Company have been deployed in the Fixed Deposit Schemes of the Banks. As at 31st March 2011, the total amount of deployment in the Fixed Deposit Schemes of Schedule Banks stood at Rs. 3900 lakhs, which in turn has yielded interest income to the tune of Rs. 214.94 lakhs.

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity, except, to hold the Equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under 'Management Discussion and Analysis Report', are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies

In terms of Sections 4(1)(b)(ii) and 4(1)(c) of the Companies Act, 1956 ('the Act'), your Company has two subsidiary companies, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. ('BL') and Balmer Lawrie (UK) Ltd. ('BLUK'). By virtue of your Company's shareholding in BL (61.8%), your Company is the holding Company of the latter. BL has one subsidiary company, which is a foreign company, namely, BLUK, which in turn under Section 4(1)(c) of the Act, is also a subsidiary of your Company.

It is understood that BL, in terms of the recent General Circular No. 2/2011 (Ref. no. 5/12/2007 – CL III) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, has complied with the conditions, including obtaining consent from its Board of Directors for non- attachment of its subsidiary's accounts. Further, it is understood that BL is presenting the Annual Accounts of its subsidiary, BLUK, in Indian currency and has consolidated its financial statement with that of the above-referred foreign subsidiary company.

Your Company in terms of Section 212(1) of the Act has attached a copy of the Annual Report and Accounts of BL.

Further your Company has furnished the Annual Accounts of BLUK in the manner as was dealt in the Annual Report of BL.

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo Section 217 (1) (e) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with Rule 2 of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of the Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, dealing with the disclosures about the above matters, are not applicable to your Company.

Particulars of Employees

Your Company has no employee in the category to report under Section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975.

Directors' Responsibility Statement

Your Directors acknowledges the responsibility for ensuring compliance with the provisions of Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, in preparation of the Annual Accounts of your Company for the financial year ended 31st March 2011 and confirm that:

(i) in the preparation of the accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2011, the applicable Accounting Standards have been followed and there was no material departure from such standards;

(ii) the Directors have selected such Accounting Policies and applied them consistently and made judgment and estimates that were reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company, as at the end of the financial year on 31st March 2011 and of the Profit of the Company for the said financial year;

(iii) 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; and

(iv) the Directors have prepared the Accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2011, on a 'Going Concern basis'.

Consolidated Financial Statement

The investment in Equity shares of your Company's in its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. ('BL'), was intended to be temporary and as of now there is no change in such intention. Thus in terms of paragraph 11(a) of the Accounting Standard-21, issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ('ICAI'), the annual financial statement of your Company has not been consolidated with the financial statement of its subsidary, i.e., BL and group compaines of BL, i.e., subsidary and joint ventures of BL, which in turn fall under the same group that of your Company.

However, the nature of equity share holding of BL in BL's subsidiary and joint venture companies are not temporary in nature and therefore BL, in terms of the Accounting Standards 21 and 27, issued by ICAI read with Clause 32 of the Listing Agreement of the Stock Exchanges, has consolidated its financial statement with that of its subsidiary and joint venture companies, which has been duly audited by BL's Statutory Auditors. In order to provide an insight about the group's financial performance, such Consolidated Financial Statement of BL along with the Report of the Auditors, is annexed hereto.

Corporate Governance

Your Company's Equity Shares are listed with the Stock Exchanges since the year-end 2002 & early 2003. Since the days of initial listing, your Company has consistently abided by the various regulations of the Stock Exchanges, including the regulations on Corporate Governance, as provided under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. A separate section titled 'Corporate Governance Report' is furnished in 'Annexure 1'.

In terms of Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement, the Statutory Auditors have examined the compliance of Corporate Governance guidelines and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as 'Annexure 2'.

We understand that necessary steps are being taken by the Administrative Ministry, i.e. Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG) for induction of adequate number of independent Directors on the Board of Directors ('the Board') and Audit Committee of your Company.

Further, we would like to report that the Board and the Audit Committee met three times instead of four times and as such on one occassion the gap was more than the stipulated period of four months. The above non compliance was due to delay in replacement of the erstwhile directors, who were nominees of the erstwhile Administrative Ministry, namely, Department of Disinvestment, Ministry of Finance, with the present directors, who are nominees of the present Administrative Ministry, MOP&NG.

Directors

Last year's Directors' Report, covered changes in composition of the Board till the date of Reporting, i.e., till 25th August 2010, which formed a part of your Company's Annual Report for the financial year 2009-10. Thereafter there has been no change in composition of the Board.

Shri P. Kalyanasundaram, a nominee of the Government of India was appointed Director with effect from 13th October 2008 and subsequently designated as the Chairman of the Board with effect from 27th October 2008. Shri P. Kalyanasundaram will retire by rotation at the ensuing 10th Annual General Meeting and has expressed his willingness to be re-appointed, as a Director of your Company.

Auditors

Your Company pursuant to Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956, is a 'Government Company'. Being a Government Company, the power to appoint the Statutory Auditors of your Company, lies with the Comptroller & Auditor General of India ('CAG').

Though the power of such appointment/re-appointment lies with CAG, in terms of Sections 224(8) (aa) and 619 of the Companies Act, 1956, the privilege of determining/fixing remuneration of the Statutory Auditors of a Government Company vests with the members.

Thus the proposal of fixing remuneration of the Auditors, has been included under Ordinary Business in the Notice convening the 10th Annual General Meeting of your Company.

The amount of remuneration payable to the Statutory Auditors of your Company would be commensurate with the volume of work involved in conducting audit of Annual Accounts for the financial year 2011-12. Since this cannot be quantified at this stage, the members are requested to authorize the Board of Directors to determine/fix the remuneration payable to the Statutory Auditors. The members may kindly note that in respect of the financial year 2010-11, the Board had fixed Rs. 15,000/-, as remuneration, which is exclusive of applicable service tax and other re-imbursements.

Reports of the Auditors

You may appreciate that Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for financial year ended 31st March 2011, does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark.

The CAG for the financial year 2010-11, has decided not to review the report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for the year ended 31st March 2011 and as such have no comments to make under Section 619(4) of the Companies Act, 1956.

Appreciation

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the continued guidance and support extended by MOP&NG and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the members of the Company.

On behalf of the Board of

Registered Office P. Kalyanasundaram

21 Netaji Subhas Road, Chairman

Kolkata – 700 001. Sukhvir Singh, Director

Date: 17th August 2011 K. Subramanyan

Director

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Mar 31, 2010

The DIRECTORS have the pleasure in presenting their Ninth Annual Report together with the audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account for the financial year ended 31st March 2010.

Your Directors would like to Share with you the trends of Indian Economy vis-a-vis the Companys performance

Indian Economy

INDIAN ECONOMY is the eleventh largest economy in the world under Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP) rating and fourth largest economy under Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). Our country began to develop a fast-paced economic growth, since 1990 with the emergence of free market activities, which has opened doors for foreign investments and international competitions. India is an emerging economic power with large pool of human (both skilled and un-skilled) and natural resources. Economists predict that by 2020, India will be among the leading economies of the world.

Since 1991, which was the year of inception of Indian economic liberalization the Country, has been moving towards a market- based economy. A revival of economic reforms and better economic policy accelerated Indias economic growth. Statistical records depicts that by the year 2008, India had already established itself as the second-fastest growing major economy in the world. In terms of GDP growth rate, year 2009 was not a very good year for India, where India has experienced a significant slowdown in Indias GDP growth rate, which came down to 6.8%.

Indias large service industry accounts for 55% of the countrys GDP, while the industrial and agricultural sectors contribute 28% and 17%, respectively. Agriculture is the predominant occupation in India, accounting for about 52% of total employment opportunities. The service sector makes up a further 34% and industrial sector around 14%.

Company Performance

You may agree to the fact that performance of your company is greatly dependent upon two issues, one being, quantum of dividend received from its subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and the other is the interest received from deployment of surplus funds with scheduled banks. In other words, financial performance of BL and interest rate prevailing at the time of deployment of surplus funds are two issues, which predominantly control the performance of your company. Though interest rates have come down considerably but due to increase in corpus of dividend from BL, Profit of your

Company has increased and your Directors are happy to recommend a dividend of 76% for the financial year 2009-10.

Financial performance of your Company for the year under review, 2009-10, as compared to the immediately preceeding year, i.e., 2008-09, is enumerated below:

Financial Results

(Rs. in lakh)

Year ended on 31st March

2010 2009

Surplus for the year before Finance charge, depreciation & tax 2170.24 1848.94

Deduct there-from: Finance charge&depreciation - -

Provision for Taxation 59.03 52.77

Net Profit 2111.21 1796.17

Add- Profit & Loss Account brought 116.05 99.74 forward

Amount available for Appropriation 2227.26 1895.91

Appropriations:

Proposed Final dividend @ Rs.7.60p 1686.99 1420.62 (Rupees Seven and paise sixty only)

[Previous year dividend @Rs. 6.40p (Rupees Six and paise forty only) per Equity share of Rs. 10/- each fully paid-up, was declared]

Corporate Tax on Dividend - -

Transfer to Reserve Fund 422.25 359.24

Surplus Carried forward to the 118.02 116.05 next year

Dividend

Your Directors are now pleased to recommend, for declaration, a dividend of Rs.7.60 (Rupees Seven and paise sixty only) per Equity share of Rs.10/- each, fully paid-up, i.e., 76% for the financial year ended 31st March 2010 as against 64% for the previous financial year ended 31st March 2009.

Subject to declaration at the ensuing Ninth Annual General Meeting, dividend will be paid to those shareholders who are holding shares as on the date of the commencement of the Book Closing period, i.e., on 17th September 2010. In respect

of shares held electronically, dividend will be paid to the beneficial owners - as per details furnished by the Depositories, i.e., Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. and National Securities Depository Ltd.

Deposits with Banks

Surplus funds have been deployed in the Short Term Fixed Deposits Schemes of the Banks. As of 31st March 2010, the total amount of deployment in the Fixed Deposit Schemes of the Banks stood at Rs. 3910.00 lakhs, which in turn has yielded interest income to the tune of Rs. 203.48 lakhs.

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

Your Company is not engaged in any other business activity, except, to hold the Equity shares of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. and accordingly matters to be covered under Management Discussion and Analysis Report are not applicable to your Company.

Report on Subsidiary Companies

In terms of Sections 4(1)(b)(ii) and 4(1)(c) of the Companies Act, 1956 (the Act) your Company has two subsidiary companies, namely, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL) and Balmer Lawrie (UK) Ltd. (BLUK). By virtue of shareholding in BL (61.8%), your Company is the holding Company of the former. BL in turn at present has one foreign subsidiary, namely, BLUK, which in turn under Section 4(1)(c) of the Act is also the subsidiary company of your Company.

Your Company in terms of Section 212(1) of the Act has attached a copy of the Report and Accounts of BL. Further your Company has furnished the Annual Accounts of BLUK in the manner as was dealt in the Annual Report of BL. In respect of any further information about the foreign subsidiary company, BLUK, we will cater to the request, if requisitioned by our members.

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings & Outgo

Section 217 (1) (e) of the Companies Act, 1956 read with Rule 2 of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of the Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, dealing with the disclosures about the above matters, are not applicable to your Company.

Particulars of Employees

Your Company has no employee in respect of whom the statement under Section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975, is applicable.

Directors Responsibility Statement

Your Directors acknowledges the responsibility for ensuring compliance with the provisions of Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, in preparation of the Annual Accounts of your Company for the financial year ended 31st March 2010 and confirm that:

(i) In the preparation of the accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2010, the applicable Accounting Standards have been followed and there was no material departure from such standards;

(ii) The Directors have selected such Accounting Policies and applied them consistently and made judgment and estimates that were reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at the end of the financial year on 31st March 2010 and of the profits of the Company for the said financial year;

(iii) 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;

(iv) That the Directors have prepared the Accounts for the financial year ended 31st March 2010 on a Going Concern basis.

Consolidated Financial Statement

The investment in Equity Shares of your Companys subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), was intended to be temporary and as of now there is no change in such intention. Thus, in terms of Paragraph 11(a) of the Accounting Standard-21, issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the Annual Financial Statements of your Company were not consolidated with the financial statements of its subsidiary, i.e., BL, and group companies of BL, i.e., subsidiary and joint venture Companies of BL, which in turn also falls under the same group that of your Compan In terms of the Accounting Standards 21 and 27 issued by ICAI read with Clause 32 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges, BL has consolidated its Financial Statement with that of its subsidiary and joint venture companies, which was duly audited by their Statutory Auditors.

In order to provide an insight about the groups financial performance, such Consolidated Financial Statement of BL along with the Report of the Auditors, is annexed hereto.

Corporate Governance

Your Companys Equity Shares are listed with the Stock

Exchanges, since the year-end 2002 / early 2003. Your Company is consistently abiding with the various regulations of the Stock Exchanges, including the regulations on Corporate Governance, as provided under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. A separate section titled Corporate Governance Report is being furnished in Annexure 1.

In terms of Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement, the Statutory Auditors have examined the compliance of Corporate Governance guidelines and issued a certificate, which is annexed to this Report and marked as Annexure 2.

Your Directors, on observations made by the Statutory Auditors in the aforesaid Corporate Governance Certificate - specifically on gap between two Board/Audit meetings would like to submit that a proposal for change in composition of the Board, whereby new Govt. nominees from the office of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOPNG) shall replace the then two existing Govt. nominees from the office of the Department of Disinvestment, Ministry of Finance, was pending approval from the appropriate authority, which was received ultimately by the Company from the Ministry, in April 2010. In respect of induction of independent Directors the Auditors themselves have passed on the information on initiative taken by the Administrative Ministry, i.e. MOPNG for induction of independent Directors on the Board/Audit Committee of the Company. In respect of the quarterly reports which were submitted to the Stock Exchanges, we would like to submit that steps have been taken to ensure that no such delay shall occur in future.

Directors

Smt. Preeti Nath was appointed in the capacity of Additional Director with effect from 25th January 2010. Shri Sukhvir Singh and Shri K. Subramanyan were also appointed in the capacity of Additional Directors with effect from 7th June 2010. Smt. Nath and Shri Singh are nominees to the Govt. of India and Shri Subramanyan is on the Board of your Company as an ex- officio member [since being in the position of Director (Finance) of BL].

Shri Debjyoti Das, Smt. Anita Chauhan and Smt. Preeti Nath, Govt. nominees, resigned from the Board with effect from 25th January 2010, 7th June 2010 and 7th June 2010, respectively.

Shri Singh and Shri Subramanyan, both shall hold their office till the ensuing Ninth Annual General Meeting. A Notice under Section 257 of the Companies Act, 1956, has been received from a member proposing their candidatures as Directors, whose office shall be subject to retirement by rotation. Therefore their appointments have been included under Special business of the Notice convening the ensuing Ninth Annual General Meeting of the Company.

Your Directors take this opportunity to appreciate the valuable services rendered by Shri Debjyoti Das, Smt. Anita Chauhan and Smt. Preeti Nath, during their tenure.

Auditors

Your Company pursuant to Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956, falls under the ambit of Government Company and the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG), has the power to appoint its Statutory Auditors.

Though such appointment is made by CAG, but in terms of

Sections 224(8) (aa) and 619 of the Companies Act, 1956, the privilege of determining/fixing remuneration of the Statutory Auditors of a Government Company vests with its members.

Thus the proposal of fixing remuneration of the Auditors has been included under Ordinary Business in the Notice convening the Ninth Annual General Meeting of your Company.

The amount of remuneration payable to the Statutory Auditors of your Company is commensurate with the volume of work involved in conducting audit of Annual Accounts for the financial year 2010-11, which cannot be quantified at this stage. Therefore the members are requested to authorize the Board of Directors to determine/fix the remuneration payable to the Statutory Auditors. The members may kindly note that in respect of the financial year 2009-10, the Board had fixed Rs. 15,000/-, as remuneration, which is exclusive of applicable service tax and other re-imbursements.

Your Company has already received a letter dated 12th July 2010 from the Office of the CAG, thereby appointing Messrs. J. Gupta & Co., Chartered Accountants, in the capacity of Statutory Auditors, with immediate effect.

Reports of the Auditors

You may appreciate that Report of the Statutory Auditors on Annual Accounts of your Company for financial year ended 31st March 2010, does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark, except, an instance of accounting fraud/ manipulation committed in the accounts of a Joint Venture Company of the Companys subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), against which it was reported that necessary provision has been made in the books of BL.

Your Directors on accounting fraud/manipulation committed in the accounts of a Joint Venture Company of the Companys subsidiary, Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. (BL), would like to say that the Joint Venture Company of BL, has taken necessary corrective and administrative actions and relevant adjustments have been effected in the books of BL, in line with the Accounting Standard - 13.

CAG have decided not to review the report of the Statutory Auditors on the Annual Accounts of the Company for the year ended 31st March 2010 and thus have no comment to make under Section 619(4) of the Companies Act, 1956.

Reports of the Statutory Auditors and CAG, are annexed hereto.

Appreciation

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation for the continued guidance and support extended by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas and other Ministries. Your Directors also acknowledge the valuable support and services provided by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. Your Directors appreciate and value the trust imposed upon them by the members of the Company.



On behalf of the Board of

Registered Office P. Kalyanasundaram, Chairman

21 Netaji Subhas Road, Sukhvir Singh

Kolkata-700 001 K. Subramanyan

25th August 2010 Directors

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Mar 31, 2003

The Directors have the pleasure in presenting their 2nd Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2003, together with the audited Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account of your Company.

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Rs. in lakhs Year ended on 31 March

2003 2002

Surplus for the year before Finance charge, depreciation & tax 151.31 (-) 14.12

Deduct therefrom : Finance charge & depreciation 0.96 0.26

Provision for Taxation 29.00 —

Net Profit/Loss(-) 121.35 (-) 14.38

Add/less (-) transfer from : Profit & Loss Account (-)14.39 —

Amount available for Appropriation 106.96 (-)14.38

Appropriation:

Proposed Final Dividend @ Re.0.30 (paise thirty only) 66.59 —

per Equity Share (Previous year no dividend was declared)

Corporate Tax on Dividend 8.53 —

Transfer to Reserve Fund 24.30 —

Surplus carried forward to the next year 7.54 (-)14.38

Dividend

Considering improved performance of your Company, your Directors are pleased to recommend a dividend of Re. 0.30 (paise Thirty only) per equity share of Rs. 10/- each for the year ended 31 March 2003.

Management Discussion and Analysis Report

As the business of your Company is not segregated into different segments so Management Discussion and Analysis Report is not applicable for your Company.

Report on Subsidiary

Since your Company holds 61.8% of the nominal value of the equity share capital of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited (BL), in terms of Section 4(1 )(b)(ii) of the Companies Act, 1956 (the Act), BL is a subsidiary of your Company. Further, Balmer Lawrie (UK) Limited (BLUK), is a subsidiary of BL, and thus in terms of Section 4(1)(c) of the Act, BLUK is also a subsidiary of your Company. Accordingly in terms of Section 212 of the Act, the Annual Accounts of BL and BLUK are attached.

Conservation of Energy, Technology Absorption and Foreign Exchange Earnings

Section 217(1)(e) of the Act, read with Rule 2 of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of the Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, dealing with the disclosure about the above matters, is not applicable to your Company.

Particulars of Employees

The Company has no employee in respect of whom the statement under Section 217 (2A) of the Act, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975, is applicable.

Directors Responsibility Statement

Pursuant to the requirement under Section 217(2AA) of the Act, with respect to Directors Responsibility Statement, it is hereby confirmed:

(i) that in the preparation of the accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2003, the applicable accounting standards have been followed and there was no departure from such standards;

(ii) that the Directors have selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgment and estimates that were 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 on 31 March 2003 and of the profit of the Company for the said financial year;

(iii) that 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;

(iv) that the Directors have prepared the accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2003, on a going concern basis.

Consolidated Financial Statement

Since the shareholding in Balmer Lawrie & Co, Limited (BL), the subsidiary of your Company is intended to be temporary because BL has been acquired and held exclusively with a view to its subsequent disposal in the near future, Consolidated Financial Statement of the Company with BL and BLUK has not been drawn in terms of paragraph 11(a) of the Accounting Standard-21, issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Disinvestment of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited

The process of disinvestment of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited, which was initiated in the last year was carried forward in the current year. The interested bidders have carried out their due diligence and met the team of management of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited on issues arising out of such due diligence. Subsequently, the interested bidders have visited the plants and business locations of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited. The draft transaction documents are under finalisation and the process is at an advanced stage.

Report on Corporate Governance

A detailed report on the Corporate Governance is also furnished along with this report as required under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges along with Auditors certificate, thereon.

Directors

Dr. B. Mohanty, a nominee of the Government of India, who retires by rotation and being eligible offers himself for reappointment.

Auditors

Your Company being a Government Company, M/s M. Choudhury & Co., Chartered Accountants, was appointed statutory Auditor by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The remuneration of the Auditor may be determined by the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting as per Section 224(8)(aa) and Section 619 of the Companies Act, 1956.

The Audit Report on Annual Accounts for year ended 31 March 2003, does not have any reservation, qualification or adverse remark of the Auditor.

Acknowledgement

Your Directors gratefully acknowledge the valuable guidance and support extended by the Government of India, Ministry of Disinvestment and other Ministries. Your Directors are thankful to the shareholders for their faith and continued support in the endeavours of the Company.

On behalf of the Board

Dr. B. Mohanty Director G. Ramachandran Director

Registered Office:

21 Netaji Subhas Road, Kolkata-700 001.

Date: 25 August, 2003