Shareholders Information

Company Registration Details:

The Company is registered in the State of West Bengal, India. The Corporate Identity Number (CIN) allotted to the Company by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) is L01132WB1900PLC000292.

Annual General Meeting
Day	Thursday
Date	4th August, 2022
Time	11.30 a.m.
Venue	AGM shall be held through Video Conferencing or Other Audio Visual Means in compliance with SEBI/MCA circulars without the physical presence of members at a common venue. The proceedings of the AGM shall be deemed to be conducted at the Registered office of the Company which shall be deemed venue of the AGM

Financial Year
April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023

Tentative Financial Calendar
The Financial Calendar year is based on twelve months commencing from April, 2021 to March, 2022.
1st Quarter Ended 30th June, 2022	Second week of August, 2022
2nd Quarter Ended 30th September, 2022	Second week of November, 2022
3rd Quarter Ended 31st December, 2022	Second week of February, 2023
4th Quarter Ended 31st March, 2023	Within May, 2023

Book Closure dates
Day	Date	To	Day	Date
Friday	29th July, 2022		Thursday	4th August, 2022

Listing of Equity Shares / Debentures on Stock Exchanges

Stock Market Performance

There were no transactions in the equity shares of the Company at The Calcutta Stock Exchange, hence there is no monthly high and low quotations and volume of shares traded on the Stock Exchange during the year. However, the month-wise high, low of the market price of the Company’s shares traded on BSE along with month-wise high, low of the BSE SENSEX are as under :

Months	Stock Price at BSE		BSE SENSEX
		High	Low	High	Low
	April, 2021	122.95	102.10	50375.77	47204.50
	May, 2021	131.00	110.30	52013.22	48028.07
	June, 2021	156.75	118.55	53126.73	51450.58
	July, 2021	146.35	118.25	53290.81	51802.73
August, 2021	147.00	106.30	57625.26	52804.08
September, 2021	130.50	110.00	60412.32	57263.90
October, 2021	129.30	101.30	62245.43	58551.14
November, 2021	134.50	106.50	61036.56	56382.93
December, 2021	224.00	103.10	59203.37	55132.68
January, 2022	193.20	121.05	61475.15	56409.63
February, 2022	129.50	94.50	59618.51	54383.20
March, 2022	104.70	82.05	58890.92	52260.82

Registrar And Share Transfer Agent

Share Transfer System

To enhance ease of dealing in securities markets by investors, SEBI has decided that listed companies shall henceforth issue the securities in dematerialized form only (vide Gazette Notification no. SEBI / LADNRO / GN / 2022 / 66 dated January 24, 2022) while processing the service request mentioned in above notification (viz. Issue of duplicate securities certificates, Claim from Unclaimed Suspense Account, Transmission, Transposition, etc.). The transmission or transposition of shares are being processed by the Registrar and Share Transfer Agents, and approved by the Stakeholders Relationship Committee.

Shareholding Pattern by Size as on March 31, 2022
	CATEGORY	NO. OF SHARES HELD	% OF SHARE CAPITAL
A.	PROMOTER’S HOLDING
1	Promoters
a.	Indian Promoters	6204526	74.8941
	Foreign Promoters	-	-
	Sub Total	6204526	74.8941
B.	NON-PROMOTER’S HOLDING
2	Institutional Investors
a.	Banks, Financial Institutions, Insurance Companies	208407	2.5157
	Sub Total	208407	2.5157
3	OTHERS
a.	Bodies Corporate	110431	1.3330
b.	Indian Public	1617046	19.5191
c.	NRIs / OCBs	1668	0.0201
d.	HUF	51261	0.6188
e.	Foreign Nationals	14062	0.1697
f.	IEPF	76022	0.9177
g.	Clearing Member	739	0.0089
h.	Custodian of enemy property	240	0.0029
	Sub Total	1871469	22.5902
	GRAND TOTAL	8284402	100

Shareholding Pattern by Size as on March 31, 2022
No. of Equity Shares Held	No. of Shareholders	% of Shareholders	No. of Shares Held	% of Shareholding
Upto 500	2974	91.4233	222147	2.6815
501 to 1000	120	3.6888	87062	1.0509
1001 to 2000	63	1.9367	8917	1.0733
2001 to 3000	17	0.5226	43716	0.5277
3001 to 4000	14	0.4304	47900	0.5782
4001 to 5000	10	0.3074	44654	0.5390
5001 to 10000	24	0.7378	181744	2.1938
10001 and above	31	0.9530	7568262	91.3556
GRAND TOTAL	3253	100.0000	8284402	100.0000

Dematerialisation of Shares And Liquidity

The trading in Company’s shares on the Stock Exchange is permitted only in dematerialized form. In order to enable the shareholders to hold their share in electronic form and to facilitate scripless trading, the Company has entered into agreements with National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Central Depository Services (India) Limited (CDSL) whereby shareholders have the option to dematerialize their shares with either of the Depositories.

As stipulated by SEBI, a practicing Company Secretary carries out the Reconciliation of Share Capital Audit on quarterly basis to reconcile the total admitted capital with National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Central Depository Services (India) Limited (CDSL) and the total issued and listed capital and the same is deposited with stock exchanges within the stipulated time period.

Status of Dematerialisation as on 31st March, 2022 was as under:

Particulars	No. of Shares	% to Total Capital	No. of Accounts
National Securities Depository Limited	4955202	59.82	1466
Central Depository Services (India) Limited	3213022	38.78	1099
Total Dematerialised	8168224	98.60	2565
Physical	116178	1.40	1008
Grand Total	8284402	100.0000	3573

Rights Issue

The Board of Directors at their meeting held on 14th July, 2020 had approved fund raising for an issue size of up to Rs. 24.90 crores, through a rights issue, in accordance with applicable law, including the Companies Act, 2013 and the rules made thereunder and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018.

Further, the Rights Issue Committee of the Board of Directors in their respective meetings held on 16th December, 2021 and 13th January, 2022 had approved the following terms of the issue:

a. Issue Price: Rs. 60/- per fully paid-up equity share (including a premium of Rs. 50/- per fully paid-up equity share over the face value of ` 10 per equity share).

b. Terms and payment of issue price: The full amount of issue price being Rs. 60/- per rights equity share payable on application.

c. Record date: The record date for the purpose of determining the eligibility of shareholders of the Company to apply in the Issue, was fixed as 22nd December, 2021, which was revised later as January 19, 2022, in consultation with and approval of BSE Ltd., Depositories NSDL & CDSL, Merchant Bankers and Registrars to the Issue.

d. Rights entitlement ratio: 1 Rights Equity Share for every 1 Equity Share held by the eligible shareholders of the Company on the record date.

e. Issue Opened on: Friday, February 4, 2022;

f. Issue Closing Date: Friday, February 18, 2022.

Further, the Rights Issue Committee at its meeting held on 28th February, 2022 approved the allotment of 41,42,201equity shares on rights basis.

Post rights issue, the paid-up share capital of the Company is Rs. 8,28,44,020 i.e. 82,84,402 equity shares of Rs. 10 each.

Corporate Governance Compliance Certificate

Certificate from Ms. Sweety Kapoor, a practicing Company Secretary, confirming compliance with the relevant provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (‘Listing Regulations’) as referred in Regulation 15(2) of the Listing Regulations for the financial year ended 31st March, 2022 is attached to the Corporate Governance Report forming part of the Directors’ Report.

Outstanding GDRs / ADRs / Warrants or any Convertible Instruments, Conversion date and likely impact on equity

The Company did not have any outstanding GDRs / ADRs / Warrants or Convertible Instruments as on 31^st March, 2022.

Locations

Tea / Coffee/ Rubber Estates and Factories are located at

Tea

Joonktollee Tea Estate P.O. Barbam - 786 624 Dist. Dibrugarh, Assam	Jamirah Tea Estate P.O. Dibrugarh - 786 001 Dist. Dibrugarh, Assam

Shree Ganga Tea Estate P.O. Barbam - 786 624 Dist. Dibrugarh, Assam	Nilmoni Tea Estate P.O. Tinkhong - 786 112 Rajgarh, Assam

Goomankhan Tea Estate Hirebile P.O.577 121 Dist. Chikmagalur, Karnataka	Pullikanam Tea Estate P.O. Pullikanam - 685 503 Vagamon Post Dist. Idukki, Kerala

Kolahalmedu Tea Estate P.O. Pullikanam-685 503 Vagamon Post Dist. Idukki, Kerala	Azizbagh Tea Estate Rajgarh - 786611 Dist. Dibrugarh, Assam

Coffee

Cowcoody Estate Somwarpet - 571236 Dist. Coorg, Karnataka	Chemoni, Pudukad & Ichipara Estate P.O. Palapilly - 680304 Dist. Trichur, Kerala

Administrative Office

Cowcoody Chambers 234-A, Race Course Road Coimbatore-641 018	Chemoni, Pudukad & Ichipara Estate P.O. Palapilly - 680304 Dist. Trichur, Kerala

Address for Correspondence

Credit Ratings

During the year under review, CARE has affirmed the rating of BB+/Stable for the bank facilities of the Company.

Transfer of Unclaimed Amounts / Shares to the Investor Education And Protection Fund (IEPF):

In accordance with the provisions of Sections 124, 125 of the Act, read with the IEPF (Accounting, Audit, Transfer and Refund) Rules, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as “IEPF Rules”) the amount of dividend or any other amount remaining unclaimed or unpaid for a period of seven years is required to be transferred to the IEPF. Further, all the shares in respect of which dividend remained unclaimed or unpaid for seven consecutive years or more, shall also be transferred to the Demat Account of the IEPF Authority.

In pursuance of the above, the dividend remaining unclaimed or unpaid in respect of dividends declared for FY 2013-14, had been transferred to the IEPF during FY 2021-22. Consequently, shares in respect of which dividend(s) remained unclaimed or unpaid from FY 2013-14 till FY 2020-21 were also transferred to IEPF. The details of the unclaimed dividends and shares so transferred are available on the Company’s website - http://joonktolleetea.in

In the interest of the shareholders, the Company sends periodical reminders to the shareholders to claim their dividends to avoid the transfer of dividends/shares to the IEPF Authority. Notices in this regard are also published in the newspapers and the details of unclaimed dividends and shareholders whose shares are liable to be transferred to the IEPF Authority, are uploaded on the Company’s website http://joonktolleetea.in/unpaid_dividend.html

It may be noted that the unclaimed dividend for FY 2014-15 declared on September 22, 2015, along with underlying shares, are due to be transferred to the IEPF by September, 2022. Members who have not encashed the dividend warrant(s) from FY 2014-15, onwards may forward their claims to the Company’s Registrar and Transfer Agents before September 5, 2022, to avoid any transfer of dividend or shares to the IEPF Authority.

The shares and unclaimed dividends transferred to the IEPF can however be claimed back by the concerned shareholders from IEPF Authority after complying with the procedure prescribed under the IEPF Rules. The Member/Claimant is required to make an online application to the IEPF Authority in e-Form No. IEPF -5 (available on www.iepf.gov.in) and submit the required documents to the Company.

Mr. Sharad Bagree, Company Secretary is the Nodal Officer for IEPF related matters.

During the year under review there are no shares in the demat suspense account or unclaimed suspense account of the Company.

Corporate Governance Compliance Certificate:

Certificate from Ms. Sweety Kapoor, a practicing Company Secretary, confirming compliance with the relevant provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (‘Listing Regulations’) as referred in Regulation 15(2) of the Listing Regulations for the financial year ended 31st March, 2022 is attached to the Corporate Governance Report forming part of the Directors’ Report.

This Certificate will be forwarded to the Stock Exchanges alongwith the Annual Report of the Company.