INVESTOR SERVICES AT TCI

Equity Shares of the Company are enlisted on following stock exchanges viz. at Hyderabad, Mumbai (BSE) and The National Stock Exchange (NSE).

(1) DEMATRIALISATION OF PHYSICAL SHARES:

9473831 shares i.e. equivalent to 90.23% of paid up equity belonging to 3199 shareholders have been dematerialized till 31st March, 04. Request for dematerialisation received from shareholders are effected within an average period of 10 days. TCI Staff /shareholders have time & again been requested to go for converting their physical holding into electronic form, obviously to avail the inherent advantages, viz.:

a) There is no risk of bad delivery.

b) One never needs to doubt the genuineness of its shares i.e., whether they are forged or fake.

c) Share transactions like transfer, transmission etc. can be effected immediately.

d) Transaction costs are usually lower than that in the physical segment.

e) The shares cannot be lost or stolen or multilated.

f) Bonus/Rights shares allotted, will be immediately credited to shareholders’ account.

In order to have shares in demat mode, the shareholder has to open a demat account with Depository Participant (DP) and forward the physical share certificates through their DP for dematerialisation purpose. Demat account is like a bank account and any addition / deletion of securities therein accordingly. The Account holder gets periodic statement of holdings from the DP while accessing the same through net as well.

(2) CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS:

All the correspondences related to share department should be addressed either to Registrar & Transfer Agents or to the Company directly.The name and address of Registrar & Transfer Agents is :

Correspondences can be addressed to Company at :

(3) EXCHANGE OF OLD SHARE CERTIFICATE

As you know, that the Parent company i.e. TCI Industries Ltd. (Earlier known as Transport Corporation of India Ltd ) has undergone restructuring by way of Scheme of Arrangement. The said Scheme of arrangement has been duly approved vide order dated 13th July, 1998 by the Hon’ble High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Pursuant to the scheme of arrangement, every Shareholder, holding 100 shares in the parent company has received following shares in four transferee companies.:-

For exchanging share certificate(s) directly, pl. forward your old share certificate(s) along with signature cards in the name of four transferee companies to TCI Industries Ltd (Parent Company - Earlier known as Transport Corporation of India Ltd.) at following address:

(4) PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND THROUGH ELECTRONIC CLEARING SERVICES (ECS)

As you know, Reserve Bank of India has introduced Electronic Clearing Services for crediting of dividend directly to the shareholder’s saving account & therefore, we are opting for the system of transferring dividend through Electronic Clearing Services to facilitate quick credit of the dividend amount SAFELY to the shareholder’s account & avoid theft, misappropriation. The Employees holding shares in Company willing to avail of the ECS facility may kindly furnish the required information in the Mandate from as appended hereunder and forward the same to the Company at the above address along with a photocopy of cheque or duly cancelled cheque for verification of the information already submitted by you / recording the particulars in our books. Also, please ensure that the particulars submitted by you are CORRECT as any error therein could result in the dividend amount being credited to a WRONG ACCOUNT. In the event of any, inadequate response from share holders of any particular center or centers, dividend amount of such shareholders will be remitted by way of dividend warrants which will be mailed directly to their addresses as registered with the Company.

(6) UNDELIVERED DIVIDEND WARRANTS

Under the Companies Act, 1956, dividends that remain unclaimed for a period of seven years automatically get transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund-IEPF administered by the Central Government. The following table hereunder shows the dates of dividend declaration since 1996-97 and the corresponding dates when unclaimed dividend is due to be transferred to the Central Government. 

           
(7) Means of Communication

Timely disclosure of consistent, relevant and reliable information on corporate financial performance is at the core of good governance. To meet this end, the quarterly results of the Company are being announced within a month of each quarter and the audited annual results within three months of the end of the financial year. Such results are also being duly published in the newspapers having all India circulation besides in the local language of the location where registered office of the Company is situated. Further, such results are also posted on www.sebiedifar.nic.in , SEBI’s website and on the Company’s website, www.grouptci.com.

Notes:

1. Please always mention your Folio No./ Certificates No./ Distinctive No. & enclose all the previous correspondence if matter pending since long time, requesting for change of address/ Demat of shares/Exchange of share certificates/ availing ECS facility/ dividend & etc.

2. Ensure that the full documentation while sending your shares for Exchange or disposal purpose.