Millennium Post (Kolkata)

SJVN net profit jumps over 2-fold to Rs 17 cr during March quarter

Net worth grows to Rs 13,822 cr in FY23

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NEW DELHI: State-owned SJVN's consolidat­ed net profit jumped over two-fold to Rs 17.21 crore during the quarter ended March 31, boosted by higher income.

It had clocked a net profit of Rs 7.49 crore in the JanuaryMar­ch quarter of the preceding financial year (FY22), the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday. The company's total income rose to Rs 582.78 crore, from Rs 393.87 crore in the yearago quarter, the hydropower producer said.

The expenses of the company stood at Rs 328.98 crore, as against Rs 366.13 crore a year ago.

The board of directors of the company has also approved a final dividend of Rs 0.62 per share of Rs 10 each for FY23.

In a separate statement, SJVN CMD Nand Lal Sharma said the company has "recorded highest ever" revenues of Rs 3,299 crore during financial year 2022-23.

For the entire fiscal, the profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 1,363.45 crore was 39.48 per cent higher over Rs 977.52 crore in FY22.

The net worth of SJVN has also increased by Rs 694 crore to

Rs 13,822 crore, he said.

Sharma further said SJVN has successful­ly achieved its ambitious Capital Expenditur­e (CAPEX) target for fiscal year 2022-23. With Rs 8,240 crore, the company has surpassed the target of Rs 8,000 crore assigned by the Ministry of Power.

Sharma apprised that the CAPEX target of Rs 8,000 crores was the third highest amongst power CPSEs for FY 2022-23.

SJVN is now set to achieve the gigantic CAPEX target of Rs 10,000 crore for FY 2023-24. Currently SJVN is constructi­ng 14 Power Projects and 2 Transmissi­on lines across India and in the neighborin­g country of Nepal.

SJVN produced 9,283 million units (MU) from all its power stations in FY 2022-23 surpassing previous year's generation of 9207 MU.

NEW DELHI: Capital markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday revised the methodolog­y for clearing corporatio­ns with regard to computatio­n of core Settlement Guarantee Fund corpus in commodity derivative­s segment.

A core Settlement Guarantee Fund (SGF) is a corpus used for settlement of trades during defaults and all intermedia­ries -- stock exchanges, clearing corporatio­ns and brokers -- contribute towards it.

Sebi received representa­tions from clearing corporatio­ns that in light of the turnover and the open interest observed at the stock exchanges in the recent times, the target corpus level prescribed in 2018 need to be reviewed and methodolog­y for computatio­n of core SGF corpus in commodity derivative­s segment.

In its circular, the regulator said that the clearing corporatio­ns in commodity derivative­s segment can now align their core SGF in terms of its framework issued in August 2014 and July 2018 and excess contributi­on may be returned to the contributi­ng stakeholde­rs on a pro-rata basis, after taking due approval from Sebi.

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SJVN CMD Nand Lal Sharma

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