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Jeevan Scientific Technology Ltd.
BSE Code 538837
ISIN Demat INE237B01018
Book Value (Rs) 31.48
NSE Code NA
Dividend Yield % 0.00
Market Cap(Rs Mn) 741.97
TTM PE(x) 0.00
TTM EPS(Rs) -1.66
Face Value (Rs) 10  
March 2015

BOARD'S REPORT

TO

THE MEMBERS,

The Directors have pleasure in presenting before you the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Company together with the Audited Statements of Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 2015.

Review of operations:

During the year under review your company recorded a turnover of Rs. 1,354.32 Lakhs as against Rs. 647.09 Lakhs for the previous financial year. The turnover includes the Clinical Research services, Education Services, HR Staffing Services and Data Management Service charges. The Business plan is to ensure at least two fold growth in business in the coming year(s) with the stable business.

Share Capital:

The paid up share capital of the Company is Rs.6,04,16,000/- consisting of 60,41,600 equity shares of Rs. 10/- each.

DIVIDEND:

As the profits are inadequate, your Directors do not propose any dividend for the year under review.

BOARD MEETINGS:

The Board of Directors duly met 7 (seven) times on 01.04.2014, 29.05.2014, 21.07.2014, 13.08.2014, 24.10.2014, 10.12.2014 and 12.02.2015 in respect of which meetings, properSeventeenth Annual Report 2014-2015notices were given and the proceedings were properly recorded and signed in the Minutes Book maintained for the purpose.

DIRECTORS AND KEY MANANGERIAL PERSONNEL:

During the year Mr. Raghav Beeram was appointed as Additional Director & Executive Director w.e.f. 07.05.2015 to hold office upto the date of ensuing Annual General Meeting and Mr. Sreerama Koteswara Rao Surapaneni as Additional Director under independent category w.e.f. 10.08.2015 to hold office upto the date of ensuing Annual General Meeting.

Mr. Vijay Vardhan Tatipaka has resigned as Director w.e.f. 10.08.2015 and Ms. Kamala Kumari Tamada has resigned as Company secretary w.e.f. 01.08.2015 due to their pre-occupations. The Board placed on record its sincere appreciation for the valuable services rendered by them during their tenure.

DIRECTOR'S RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT:

1.In pursuance of section 134 (5) of the Companies Act, 2013, the Directors hereby confirm that:

2.In the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to material departures;

3.The Directors had selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company at the end of the financial year and of the profit and loss of the company for that period;

4.The Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act for safeguarding the assets of the company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities;

5.The Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis; and

(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.

VIGIL MECHANISM:

Vigil Mechanism Policy has been established by the Company for directors and employees to report genuine concerns pursuant to the provisions of section 177(9) & (10) of the Companies Act, 2013. The same has been placed on the website of the Company.

STATUTORY COMPLIANCE:

The Company has complied with the required provisions relating to statutory compliance with regard to the affairs of the Company in all respects.

UN PAID / UN CLAIMED DIVIDEND:

In terms of the provisions of the Companies Act, the Company is obliged to transfer dividends, which remain unpaid or unclaimed for a period of seven years from the declaration to the credit of the Investor education and Protection Fund established by the Central Government. The Company has not declared any dividend since its inception and hence the transfer of any unpaid /unclaimed dividend to the credit of the Investor education and Protection Fund does not arise.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE / FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE SUBSIDIARIES / ASSOCIATES / JOINT VENTURES:

The company is not having any subsidiaries / associates / joint ventures.

EXTRACT OF ANNUAL RETURN:

As required pursuant to section 92(3) of the Companies Act, 2013 and rule 12(1) of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014,an extract of annual return in MGT 9 as at 31st March 2015 forms part of this Annual Report as Annexure A.

AUDITORS:

STATUTORY AUDITORS:

M/s. L N P & Co, Chartered Accountants, Statutory Auditors of the company retires at the ensuing annual general meeting and is eligible for reappointment. As required under the provisions of Section 139 of the Companies Act, 2013, the Company has received a written consent from the auditors to their re-appointment and a certificate to the effect that their re-appointment, if made, would be in accordance with the Companies Act, 2013 and the rules framed there under and that they have satisfied the criteria provided in Section 141 of the Companies Act, 2013.

The Board recommends the re-appointment of M/s. L N P & Co, as the statutory auditors of the Company from the conclusion of this Annual General meeting till the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting.

INTERNAL AUDITORS:

M/s. K P & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Hyderabad are the internal Auditors of the Company.

SECRETARIAL AUDITORS:

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 134(3)(f) & Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013, Secretarial audit report as provided by M/s. S.S. Reddy & Associates., Practicing Company Secretaries is annexed to this Report as Annexure C.

QUALIFICATIONS IN AUDIT REPORTS: Nil

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE OUTGO:

The required information as per Sec.134(3)(m) of the Companies Act 2013 is provided hereunder:

A. Conservation of Energy:

Your Company's operations are not energy intensive. Adequate measures have been taken to conserve energy wherever possible by using energy efficient computers and purchase of energy efficient equipment.

B. Technology Absorption:

i.Research and Development (R&D): Your company has started a Bioanalytical Lab in the new premises. Bioanalytical research laboratory is designed with state of the art facility equipped with advanced analytical instrumentation having 2 processing labs and 4 LC-MS/MS labs, which can accommodate up to 12 LC-MS/MS. Jeevan Scientific offers a unique combination of highly trained workforce enabled with well-equipped bioanalytical research and development (R&D) laboratory.

ii. Technology absorption, adoption and innovation: There was considerable technology absorption, adoption and innovation with the addition of the above equipment in the new facility the results of which can be seen in the years to come.

C.Foreign Exchange Earnings and Out Go:

The foreign exchange earned in terms of actual inflows during the year and the foreign exchange outgo during the year in terms of actual outflow: Please refer to note no.1 of notes to financial statements.

DETAILS RELATING TO DEPOSITS, COVERING THE FOLLOWING:

Your Company has not accepted any deposits falling within the meaning of Sec.73, 74 & 76 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Rule 8(v) of Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014, during the financial year under review.

DETAILS OF ADEQUACY OF INTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROLS:

Your Company has well established procedures for internal control across its various locations, commensurate with its size and operations. The organization is adequately staffed with qualified and experienced personnel for implementing and monitoring the internal control environment. The internal audit function is adequately resourced commensurate with the operations of the Company and reports to the Audit Committee of the Board.

INSURANCE:

The properties and assets of your Company are adequately insured.

PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES OR INVESTMENTS:

The company has not given loans, Guarantees or made any investments during the year under review.

CREDIT & GUARANTEE FACILITIES:

The Company has been availing facilities of Credit and Guarantee as and when required, for the business of the Company, from The Karur Vysya Bank Ltd. Personal Guarantees was given by Mr. Krishna Kishore Kuchipudi, Executive Vice Chairman without any consideration for obtaining Bank Guarantees.

RISK MANAGEMENT POLICY:

Your Company follows a comprehensive system of Risk Management. Your Company has adopted a procedure for assessment and minimization of probable risks. It ensures that all the risks are timely defined and mitigated in accordance with the well structured risk management process.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY POLICY:

Since your Company does not have net worth of Rs. 500 Crore or more, or turnover of Rs. 1000 Crore or more, or a net profit of Rs. 5 Crore or more during the financial year, section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 relating to Corporate Social Responsibility is not applicable and hence the Company need not adopt any Corporate Social Responsibility Policy.

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS:

All contracts/arrangements/transactions entered into by the Company during the financial year with related parties were in the ordinary course of business and on arm's length basis. During the year, the Company had not entered into any contract/arrangement/transaction with related parties which could be considered material in accordance with the policy of the company on materiality of related party transactions.

The Policy on materiality of related party transactions and dealing with related party transactions as approved by the Board may be accessed on the Company's website at http:// www.jeevanscientific.com.

Your Directors draw attention of the members to Note 22 to the financial statement which sets out related party disclosures.

FORMAL ANNUAL EVALUATION:

As per section 149 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with clause VII (1) of the schedule IV and rules made there under, the independent directors of the company had a meeting on 10th day of August 2015 without attendance of non-independent directors and members of management. In the meeting the following issues were taken up:

(a)Review of the performance of non-independent directors and the Board as a whole;

(b)Review of the performance of the Chairperson of the company, taking into account the views of executive directors and non-executive directors;

(c)Assessing the quality, quantity and timeliness of flow of information between the company management and the Board that is necessary for the Board to effectively and reasonably perform their duties.

The meeting also reviewed and evaluated the performance of non-independent directors. The company has 5 (Five) non-independent directors namely: i.) Mr Gopi Krishna Kilaru - Managing Director Cum CFO, ii.) Mr Krishna Kishore Kuchipudi - Executive Vice Chairman, iii) Mr. Rajendra Prasad Muppavarapu- Whole time director, iv. Mr Raghav Beeram- Whole time director and Mrs. Vanaja Kuchipudi - Non Executive Director The meeting recognized the significant contribution made by non-independent directors in the shaping up of the company and putting the company on accelerated growth path. They devoted more time and attention to bring up the company to the present level.

The meeting also reviewed and evaluated the performance of the Board as whole in terms of the following aspects:

Preparedness for Board/Committee meetings

Attendance at the Board/Committee meetings

Guidance on corporate strategy, risk policy, corporate performance and overseeing acquisitions and disinvestments.

Monitoring the effectiveness of the company's governance practices

Ensuring a transparent board nomination process with the diversity of experience, knowledge, perspective in the Board.

Ensuring the integrity of the company's accounting and financial reporting systems, including the independent audit, and that appropriate systems of control are in place, in particular, systems for financial and operational control and compliance with the law and relevant standards.

It was noted that the Board Meetings have been conducted with the issuance of proper notice and circulation of the agenda of the meeting with the relevant notes thereon.

DISCLOSURE ABOUT COST AUDIT:

Cost Audit is not applicable to your Company.

RATIO OF REMUNERATION TO EACH DIRECTOR:

Under section 197(12) of the Companies Act, 2013, and Rule 5(1)(2) & (3) of the Companies(Appointment & Remuneration) Rules, 2014, a remuneration of Rs. 12,00,000/- is being paid to Mr. Gopi Krishna Kilaru, Managing Director of the Company and a remuneration of Rs. 12,00,000/- is being paid to Mr. Krishna Kishore Kuchipudi, Whole Time Director and a remuneration of Rs. 12,00,000/- is being paid to Mr. Rajendra Prasad Muppavarapu, Whole Time Director of the Company.

LISTING WITH STOCK EXCHANGES:

The Company confirms that it has paid the Annual Listing Fees for the year 2015-2016 to Bombay Stock Exchange where the Company's Shares are listed.

REPORT ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:

A detailed report on corporate governance prepared in substantial compliance with the provisions of the listing agreement with stock exchange together with the auditors certificate regarding the compliance of conditions of corporate governance forms part of the annual report.

MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS:

Management discussion and analysis report for the year under review has stipulated under clause 49 of the listing agreement with the stock exchange in India is presented in a separate section forming part of the annual report.

INDUSTRY BASED DISCLOSURES AS MANDATED BY THE RESPECTIVE LAWS GOVERNING THE COMPANY

The Company is not a NBFC, Housing Companies etc., and hence Industry based disclosures is not required.

SECRETARIAL STANDARDS EVENT BASED DISCLOSURES

During the year under review, the Company has not taken up any of the following activities:

1.Issue of sweat equity share: NA

2.Issue of shares with differential rights: NA

3.Issue of shares under employee's stock option scheme: NA

4.Disclosure on purchase by company or giving of loans by it for purchase of its shares: NA

5.Buy back shares: NA

6.Disclosure about revision: NA

7.Preferential Allotment of Shares: NA

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS:

Your Directors are pleased to record their sincere appreciation of the contribution by the staff at all levels in the improved performance of the Company.

None of the employees is drawing Rs. 5,00,000/- and above per month or Rs.60,00,000/- and above in aggregate per annum, the limits prescribed under Section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013

General: There is no change in the nature of the business of the company. There are no companies which have become or ceased to be its subsidiaries, joint ventures or associate companies during the year.

There are no significant material orders passed by the regulators/courts which would impact the going concern status of the Company and its future operations.

Your directors further state that during the year under review, there were no cases filed pursuant to the sexual harassment of women at work place.(Prevention, prohibition and Redressal act, 2013)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation of the contribution made by the employees at all levels, to the continued growth and prosperity of your Company.

Your Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation of business constituents, banks and other financial institutions and shareholders of the Company like SEBI, BSE, NSE, MCX, NSDL, CDSL, The Karur Vysya Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Andhra Bank and State Bank of India etc. for their continued support for the growth of the Company.

For and on behalf of the Board

Jeevan Scientific Technology Limited

Sd/-Gopi Krishna Kilaru

Managing Director

DIN No. 02376561

Place : Hyderabad

Date : 10.08.2015