IOC, GAIL, ONGC fined for third straight quarter for failure to nominate administrators

NEW DELHI: State-owned oil and fuel giants together with IndianOil, ONGC and GAIL (India) have been slapped fines for the third straight quarter for failing to fulfill itemizing norm necessities of getting the requisite variety of administrators on their board. Inventory exchanges have fined oil refining and gas advertising big Indian Oil Company (IOC), explorers Oil and Pure Fuel Company (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL), fuel utility GAIL, and refiners Hindustan Petroleum Company Ltd (HPCL) and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) a cumulative Rs 32.5 lakh, inventory trade filings confirmed. In separate filings, the businesses detailed the fines imposed by the BSE and NSE for both not having the requisite variety of impartial administrators or the mandated ladies director within the third quarter ended December 31, 2023, however had been fast to level out that appointment of administrators was completed by the federal government they usually had no function in it. The businesses had confronted fines for a similar motive within the earlier two quarters as nicely. The six PSUs in separate filings mentioned they’ve been slapped with a tremendous of Rs 5,42,800 every for the third quarter. Whereas ONGC and its subsidiaries HPCL and MRPL, GAIL and OIL confronted fines for not having the required variety of impartial administrators on their board, IOC for not having a girl impartial director on its board. Itemizing norms require firms to have impartial administrators in the identical proportion as government or purposeful administrators. They’re additionally required to have a minimum of one lady director on the board. For the second quarter, IOC, ONGC, OIL, GAIL, Bharat Petroleum Company Ltd, HPCL and Engineers India Ltd had confronted a tremendous of Rs 5.42 lakh. For the most recent tremendous, IOC within the regulatory submitting mentioned that “being a government company, the power to appoint directors (including independent directors) vests with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, and hence the non-appointment of women independent director on the Board during the quarter ended December 31, 2023 was not due to any negligence/fault by the company.” Accordingly, IOC mentioned it shouldn’t be held liable to pay the fines and the identical must be waived-off. “IOC regularly takes up with ministry for appointment of requisite number of independent directors (including woman independent director) to ensure compliance with corporate governance norms enunciated under SEBI (LODR) as well as the Companies Act,” it mentioned, including, it had prior to now obtained related notices from the 2 inventory exchanges and its waiver request was granted. GAIL within the submitting mentioned “appointments are outside the purview/control of the GAIL’s management.” “The non-compliance with regard to the composition of the Board was not within the control of the company and the company has been regularly pursuing with the Government of India (GoI) for appointment of requisite numbers of independent directors to meet the compliance requirements,” ONGC mentioned. The appointment of administrators on its subsidiaries HPCL and MRPL too are completed by the federal government. “The company is following up with the government from time to time for appointing the required number of directors on its board and GOI is seized of the matter,” HPCL mentioned. MRPL mentioned it has been repeatedly following up with the ministry for appointment of requisite variety of impartial administrators on the Board and “the same has been under active consideration” of the ministry. Stating that the non-compliance was past the management of the corporate, OIL mentioned it has requested the ministry for appointment of impartial administrators on the Board of the corporate to adjust to Regulation 17(1) of the SEBI (LODR) Laws, 2015. The businesses had cited related causes and remedial motion once they had confronted fines for non-compliance within the earlier two quarters. IOC, ONGC, OIL, GAIL, BPCL, HPCL and Engineers India Ltd had been slapped with a uniform Rs 5,42,800 tremendous for the second quarter as nicely. For non-compliance in April-June quarter, ONGC was slapped with Rs 3.36 lakh tremendous, IOC Rs 5.36 lakh and GAIL Rs 2.71 lakh tremendous. HPCL and BPCL had been requested to pay Rs 3.6 lakh tremendous every, whereas Oil India had confronted a penalty of Rs 5.37 lakh.

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