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BOARD COMMITTEES

The Board has to appoint various committees to assist it in discharging its responsibilities.

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The Board has adopted charters setting forth the roles and responsibilities of each of the committees as well as qualifications for committee membership, procedures for committee members' appointment and removal, committee structure and operations and reporting to the Board. The Board may constitute new committees or dissolve any existing committee as it deems necessary for the discharge of its responsibilities.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

The Audit Committee assists the Board in its responsibility for overseeing the quality and integrity of the accounting, auditing and reporting practices of the Company and its compliance with the legal and regulatory requirements. The Committee's purpose is to oversee the accounting and financial reporting process of the Company, the audits of the Company's financial statements, the appointment, independence, performance and remuneration of the statutory auditors including the Cost auditors, the performance of internal auditors and the Company's risk management policies.

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FINANCE COMMITTEE

Terms of Reference

  • Review the Company’s financial policies, risk assessment and minimisation procedures, strategies and capital structure, working capital and cash flow management, and make such reports and recommendations to the Board with respect thereto, as it may deem advisable;

  • Review banking arrangements and cash management;

  • Exercise all powers to borrow money (otherwise than by issue of debentures) within limits approved by the Board, and take necessary actions connected therewith, including refinancing for optimisation of borrowing costs;

  • Give guarantees / issue letters of comfort / providing securities within the limits approved by the Board;

  • Borrow money by way of loan and / or issue and allot bonds / notes denominated in one or more foreign currencies in international markets for the purpose of refinancing the existing debt, capital expenditure, general corporate purposes, including working capital requirements and possible strategic investments within the limits approved by the Board;

  • Provide corporate guarantee / performance guarantee by the Company within the limits approved by the Board;

  • Approve opening and operation of Investment Management Accounts with foreign banks and appoint them as agents, establishment of representative / sales offices in or outside India;

  • Carry out any other function as is mandated by the Board from time to time and/or enforced by any statutory notification, amendment or modification as may be applicable;

  • Other transactions or financial issues that the Board may desire to have them reviewed by the Finance Committee such as:

    • - Forex Derivative Transactions

    • - OTC TradesNote outstanding borrowings, inter corporate investments, loans and guarantees

    • - Note status report and hedging activities on commodity and forex products

  • Delegate authorities from time to time to the executives / authorised persons to implement the Committee’s decisions;

  • Carry out any other function as is mandated by the Board from time to time.

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

Terms of Reference

The terms of reference of the Committee, inter alia, include the following:

  • Formulate and recommend to the Board, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Policy indicating the activities to be undertaken by the Company as specified in Schedule VII to the Companies Act, 2013;

  • Recommend the amount of expenditure to be incurred on the CSR activities;

  • Approve Corporate Sustainability Reports and oversee the implementation of sustainability activities;

  • Monitor Company’s compliance with the Corporate Governance Guidelines and applicable laws and regulations and make recommendations to the Board on all such matters and on any corrective action to be taken, as the Committee may deem appropriate;

  • Oversee the implementation of polices contained in the Business Responsibility Policy Manual and to make any changes / modifications, as may be required, from time to time and to review and recommend the Business Responsibility Report (BRR) to the Board for its approval;

  • Monitor CSR Policy of the Company from time to time;

  • Monitor the CSR activities undertaken by the Company;

  • Ensure compliance with the corporate governance norms prescribed under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, the Companies Act, 2013 and other statutes or any modification or re-enactment thereof;

  • Advise the Board periodically with respect to significant developments in the law and practice of corporate governance and to make recommendations to the Board for appropriate revisions to the Company's Corporate Governance Guidelines;

  • Observe practices of Corporate Governance at all levels and to suggest remedial measures wherever necessary;

  • Review and assess the adequacy of the Company’s Corporate Governance Manual, Code of Conduct for Directors and Senior Management, the Code of Ethics and other internal policies and guidelines and monitor that the principles described therein are being incorporated into the Company’s culture and business practices;

  • Formulate / approve codes and / or policies for better governance;

  • Provide correct inputs to the media so as to preserve and protect the Company’s image and standing;

  • Disseminate factually correct information to investors, institutions and the public at large;

  • Establish oversight on important corporate communication on behalf of the Company with the assistance of consultants / advisors, if necessary;

  • Ensure institution of standardised channels of internal communications across the Company to facilitate a high level of disciplined participation;

  • Carry out any other function as is mandated by the Board from time to time and / or enforced by any statutory notification, amendment or modification as may be applicable.

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HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT (HS&E) COMMITTEE

Terms of Reference

  • Monitor and ensure the highest standards of environmental, health and safety norms;

  • Ensure compliance with applicable pollution and environmental laws at the Company’s works / factories / locations by putting in place effective systems in this regard and review the same periodically;

  • Review as the Committee deems appropriate, the Company’s health, safety and environment related policy and making recommendations as necessary;

  • Review the Company’s performance on health, safety and environment related matters and suggest improvements as the Committee may deem necessary;

  • Review procedures and controls being followed at the Company’s various manufacturing facilities and plants for compliance with relevant statutory provisions;

  • Review regularly and making recommendations about changes to the charter of the Committee;

  • Review fatal or serious accidents, dangerous occurrences, any material effluent or pollution problems;

  • Carry out any other function as is mandated by the Board from time to time and / or enforced by any statutory notification, amendment or modification as may be applicable.

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HUMAN RESOURCES, NOMINATION AND REMUNERATION COMMITTEE

Terms of Reference

  • Formulate the criteria for determining qualifications, positive attributes and independence of a Director, and recommend to the Board a policy, relating to the remuneration of the Directors, Key Managerial Personnel and other employees;

  • Formulate the criteria for evaluation of performance of Independent Directors and the Board of Directors;

  • Devise a policy on Board diversity;

  • Identify persons who are qualified to become Directors and who may be appointed in senior management in accordance with the criteria laid down and to recommend to the Board their appointment and / or removal;

  • Consider extension or continue the term of appointment of the Independent Directors on the basis of the report of performance evaluation of Independent Directors;

  • Specify the manner for effective evaluation of performance of Board, its Committees and Individual Directors to be carried out either by the Board, by the Human Resources, Nomination and Remuneration Committee or by an independent external agency and review its implementation and compliance;

  • Review Human Resource policies and overall human resources of the Company;

  • Recommend / review remuneration of the Managing Director(s) and Whole-time Director(s) based on their performance and defined assessment criteria;

  • Administer, monitor and formulate detailed terms and conditions of the Employees’ Stock Option Schemes;

  • Review information on recruitment and remuneration of senior officers just below the level of Board of Directors, including appointment or removal of Chief Financial Officer and the Company Secretary;

  • Review significant labour problems and their proposed solutions;

  • Review significant development in Human Resources / Industrial Relations front like signing of wage agreement, implementation of Voluntary Retirement Scheme etc;

  • Recommend to the Board, all remuneration, in whatever form, payable to senior management;

  • Carry out any other function as is mandated by the Board from time to time and / or enforced by any statutory notification, amendment or modification as may be applicable.

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STAKEHOLDERS RELATIONSHIP COMMITTEE

Terms of Reference

  • Oversee and review all matters connected with transfer of Company’s securities;

  • Approve issue of  duplicate shares / debentures certificates;

  • Oversee the performance of the Company’s Registrars and Transfer Agents;

  • Monitor implementation and compliance with the Company’s Code of Conduct for Prohibition of Insider Trading;

  • Consider, resolve and monitor various aspects of interest of shareholders, debenture holders and other security holders including the redressal of investors’ / shareholders’ / security holders’ grievances related to transfer / transmission of securities, non-receipt of annual reports, non-receipt of declared dividend, issue new / duplicate certificates, general meetings and so on.

  • Review measures taken for effective exercise of voting rights by shareholders.

  • Review adherence to the service standards adopted by the Company in respect of various services being rendered by the Registrar & Share Transfer Agent and recommend methods to upgrade the service standards adopted by the Company.

  • Review various measures and initiatives taken by the Company for reducing the quantum of unclaimed dividends and ensuring timely receipt of dividend warrants / annual reports / statutory notices by the security shareholders of the Company.

  • Carry out any other function as is mandated by the Board from time to time and / or enforced by any statutory notification, amendment or modification as may be applicable;

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RISK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Terms of Reference

  • Frame Risk Management Plan and Policy;

  • Oversee implementation / Monitoring of Risk Management Plan and Policy;

  • Validate the process of Risk Management;

  • Validate the procedure for Risk Minimisation;

  • Periodically review and evaluate the Risk Management Policy and Practices with respect to risk assessment and risk management processes;

  • Continually obtain reasonable assurance from management that all known and emerging risks have been identified and mitigated or managed;

  • Review of development and implementation of a Risk Management Policy including identification therein of element of risk;

  • Review of cyber security and related risks;

  • Carry out any other function as is mandated by the Board from time to time and / or enforced by any statutory notification, amendment or modification as may be applicable.

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