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10th December 2020 The Secretary The Secretary The Secretary BSE Limited PJ. Towers, National Stock Exchange of The Calcutta Stock Exchange 25 Floor, Dalal Street, Ltd, Limited MUMBAI-400001 Listing dept. Exchange Plaza, 7, Lyons Range Scrip Code: 532654 5h Fl. Plot No. C/1, KOLKATA-700001 G-Block, Bandra-Kurla Scrip Code: 10023930 Complex, Bandra (E) MUMBAI-400051 Scrip Code: MCLEODRUSS

Dear Sir,

Sub: 22nd Annual General Meeting of the Company- Newspaper Publication

In continuation to our letter dated 8th December 2020, inter alia, with regard to 22 Annual General of Meeting the Company, scheduled to be held on Wednesday, 30th December, 2020, please find enclosed the copy of the advertisement published on Thursday, 10th December, 2020 in English and Regional Newspaper (Bengali).

The same has also been made available on the website of the Company, www.mcleodrussel.com

This is for your information and record.

Thanking You,

Yours faithfully, McLEOD RUSSEL INDIA LIMITED hon domant ALOK KUMAR' SAMANT COMPANY SECRETARY

Encl: as above

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McLEOD RUSSEL INDIA LIMITED Corporate Identity Number (CIN) : LS1109WB1998PLCO87076 FOUR MANGOE LANE, SURENDRA MOHAN GHOSH SARANI, KOLKATA 700 001 TELEPHONE: 033-2210-1221, 2248-9434/35, FAX: 91-33-2248-8114/ 6265 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.mcleodrussel.com (WA) A Williamson Magor Group Enterprise 6 ECONOMY & PUBLIC AFFAIRS MUMBAI | THURSDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2020 1 > Changes to farm Acts will take United Opposition asks President to us back to square one: Experts support farmers SANJEEB MUKHERJEE , 9 December ADITI PHADNIS New Delhi, 9 December he central government’s pro- posed changes to the farm From to Shiromani T Acts to assuage protesting Akali Dal, every malcontent farmers will dilute the existing legis- that has any grievance against lations but restore states’ powers of the government banded framing rules on agriculture mar- together to assure protesting keting as was proposed in model farmers of their support as the Agricultural Produce Marketing government assessed its Committee Acts circulated since options in dealing with the 2003, experts feel. second phase of the agitation The proposed changes, which after the farmers turned down were rejected by the agitating assurances on minimum sup- farmers on Wednesday, include giv- port price and other farm ing states the right to frame rules to issues. register private mandis and also “All our adversaries have levy fees or cess on par with the been brought on one stage, existing APMCs. because of these Bills,” said a However, it does not give states senior powers to charge fees on all trans- (BJP) leader. Congress leader , Left-wing party leaders D Raja actions outside mandis. The propo- The agitating farmers and and , NCP chief and others sals also indicate that the Centre the government are now address media after a delegation of Opposition leaders met might consider giving states power locked in a classical stand-off, President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan and to frame rules for registering new both adopting maximalist presented a memorandum regarding farmers issue PHOTO: PTI traders who will trade outside man- positions, with even the dis. On the dispute resolution Rashtriya Swayamsevak have pledged to block every draw the Bills and return mechanism, the proposed changes Sangh-affiliated farm bodies arterial road leading to Delhi. them without signing them. include giving farmers powers to unable to break the logjam. They will block the Delhi- “Keep at it” was the advice appeal in any civil court if they are Till early in the day, gov- Jaipur highway on December Congress leader Jairam not satisfied with the decision given ernment representatives said 12 and nationwide dharnas Ramesh gave to farmers. under the existing provisions. they were hopeful the prob- will be called on December 14. Former Madhya Pradesh “If these dilutions are carried out Farmers sit on a tractor as they listen to a speaker during a protest against the newly passed farm Acts, at Singhu border near lem would be resolved. A delegation of Opposition chief minister and Digvijaya then the whole essence of providing New Delhi, on Wednesday PHOTO: REUTERS “This (ongoing negotia- parties, including Rahul Singh had already expressed a free market and reforming the tions) is a work in progress. Gandhi from the Congress, public pessimism at the out- agricultural markets will be lost. If In that, too, states had powers to Hopefully, in the last stage. Sharad Pawar from the come of a meeting with the someone taxes outside mandis pri- tax new markets, register new > FROM PAGE 1 Let us wait for some more Nationalist Congress Party, President, saying it would vate trader, then the whole situation players under bylaws. He said any time," Information minister Sitaram Yechury from the yield little. Singh said the Bills is back to square one,” Mahendra amendment is meant to dilute the trate concerned. Prakash Javadekar said ear- should be examined by a joint Dev, director of Indira Gandhi original provisions of an Act. Farmers reject... Meanwhile, a delegation of Opposition lier in the day. (Marxist), D Raja from the parliamentary committee Institute of Development Research, Singh said the one big change The central government tried to assure parties, including Rahul Gandhi from the When it became clear that Communist Party of India, (JPC). told Business Standard. that has been proposed by the farmers that the new farm Acts would not Congress, Sharad Pawar from the the farmers had rejected the and T K S Elangovan from the “Prime Minister Narendra He said even earlier just around Centre’s is allowing farmers to encroach upon their land and said it was Nationalist Congress Party, Sitaram government’s offer, Dravida Munnetra Modi should put aside his 30-40 per cent of farm produce approach civil courts if they are not willing to further strengthen their provi- Yechury from the Communist Party of Agriculture Minister Kazhagam, met President stubbornness. It is a matter went through the mandi, while the satisfied with the decision given by sions to remove doubts, if any. India (Marxist), D Raja from the Narendra Tomar rushed to Ram Nath Kovind to urge him concerning farmers. Such rest was sold outside and the farm the existing authority. “This I feel “The Acts clearly state that they aren’t Communist Party of India, and T K S Home Minister ’s to persuade the government stubbornness is not right for Acts were meant to ensure that the wasn’t there in the original model an encumbrance upon the land of the Elangovan from the Dravida Munnetra residence and was closeted in to yield to the demands of anyone. All three laws should produce sold outside remains out APMC Act as well that was circu- farmer, but if there is any doubt, it can be Kazhagam, met President Ram Nath a meeting there. protesting farmers and repeal be repealed. JPC should be of the purview of taxes, but the pro- lated among states,” he said. further clarified,” stated the document sent Kovind to urge him to persuade the gov- The government will have the three farm Bills, which, formed. That will find a solu- posal negates all that. “Then what “I have always felt that the first by the central government to the agitating ernment to yield to the demands of pro- to carry out an intricate and incidentally, the President tion after talking to farmers," was the need for bringing the acts model APMC Act circulated in 2003 farmers. testing farmers and repeal the three farm adroit balancing exercise. has already given assent to, said Singh. in the first place,” Dev said. was a better piece of legislation as it On the registration of contracts in the Bills, which, incidentally, the President had Politics will force it to be making them law. Speaking to reporters after However, Sukhpal Singh, profes- gave adequate power to the states Contract Farming Act, the Centre said already given assent to, making them law. restrained in dealing with the This is the second meeting the Rashtrapati Bhavan meet- sor and chairperson in the Centre to do farm marketing reforms, there was a provision that states would This is the second meeting of the farmers, leaving it hamstrung of Opposition leaders on ing, Rahul and Yechury said for Management of Agriculture at which the new Acts sought to take have the right to register such agreements Opposition leaders on these Bills - the first in resorting to traditional these Bills - the first one being the government should IIM-Ahmedabad, had a different back. But, with the proposed between a buyer and a farmer. But till such one being in September, when they urged coercive measures like using in September, when they revisit the laws. take. He said the amendments are changes, the scenario is once again time an authority is not framed, a copy of the President to counsel the government teargas and firing to dislodge urged the President to coun- similar to those proposed in the first coming back to what prevailed ear- the said agreement would have to be to withdraw the Bills and return them with- the agitating farmers who sel the government to with- More on business-standard.com model APMC Bill of 2003. lier,” Singh said. deposited with the sub-divisional magis- out signing them. Cabinet approves EPF subsidy scheme to boost job creation

INDIVJAL DHASMANA The EPFO will credit the New Delhi, 9 December contribution in an - seeded account. The organi- The Cabinet on Wednesday sation will develop a software approved a proposal to pro- for the scheme and develop a vide employees' provident procedure which is transpar- fund (EPF) contribution to ent and accountable. those hiring additional work- It will work out the modal- force for two years. This would ities to ensure there is no cost the government ~1,584 overlapping of benefits crore in the current fiscal year under this scheme with any and ~22,810 crore during the other scheme implemented entire period from 2020-2023. by the EPFO. The proposal — Other decisions This scheme is a signifi- Atmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar cant improvement from the n Yojana — announced earlier Approved signing a Surveillance du Secteur previous EPF subsidy scheme by Finance Minister Nirmala bilateral Memorandum Financier announced in March, when Sitharman, as part of the sti- of Understanding (MoU) nAnother MoU between the government had decided mulus package, is aimed at between the markets India and Suriname for to only foot the EPF contrib- generating 6 million jobs by regulator Sebi and cooperation in the field ution of firms with up to 100 June next year, informed workers and where 90 per Luxembourg’s Financial of health and medicine sources. and Commission de cent of the workers earned up Under the package, the okayed to ~15,000 per month. Union government will pro- A critical aspect of the vide subsidy for two years in workers for two years. before October 1 — will be eli- scheme is that employers will respect of new employees However, it will pay only gible for the benefit. have to add at least two new engaged on or after October the employees' share of the Any EPF member posses- employees if they have a total this year and up to June 30, EPF contribution at 12 per cnt sing a universal account workforce of less than 50. 2021, said Information and of wages in respect of new number and drawing a Employers will have to hire a Broadcasting Minister employees in establishments monthly wage of less than minimum of five new Prakash Javdekar. employing more than 1,000 ~15,000, but laid off during the employees if their workforce The government will pay workers for two years. Covid-19 pandemic between is more than 50. They will employees as well as An employee drawing a March 1 and September 30 have to maintain this mini- employers contribution at 12 monthly wage of less than this year and not resumed mum net addition to their per cent of wages each ~15,000 — not working in any employment at any EPF-cov- workforce each month from towards EPF in respect of new establishment registered with ered establishment up to October this year to June 2021 employees in establishments the Employees’ Provident September 30, will also be eli- to be eligible for the scheme, employing up to 1,000 Fund Organisation (EPFO) gible to avail of the benefit. added sources. Revenue deficit GST shortfall: Govt releases grant: 14 states get ~6,000 crore ~6,000 crore to states, UTs The Centre has released INDIVJAL DHASMANA ~6,195 crore to 14 states as the New Delhi, 9 December PDS reforms done, 9 states get govt monthly instalment of post- devolution revenue deficit The Union finance ministry on nod to raise ~23.5K cr from markets grant, in line with the interim Wednesday released ~6,000 The Union Finance Ministry on Wednesday said it has allowed recommendations of the 15th crore to 23 states and three nine states to borrow ~23,523 crore (combined) from the markets Finance Commission. The 14 Union Territories to meet the after they implemented the One Nation, One Ration Card system. states are Andhra Pradesh, revenue shortfall they faced on These states include Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Haryana, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, account of goods and services Karnataka, , Telangana, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh. The Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, tax (GST) implementation. ministry said it hopes more states will do so by the deadline — the Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, This was part of the weekly end of this calendar year. INDIVJAL DHASMANA Sikkim, , Tripura, instalment the Centre makes Uttarakhand and West to states. While ~5,516.60 crore have now opted for this special Centre has so far borrowed Bengal. A similar amount was was released to states, UTs got window where the Centre rais- ~36,000 crore at an average released as grant in the April- ~483.40 crore. The remaining es money from the markets interest rate of 4.7 per cent. November period of this year. five states — Arunachal Pradesh, and lends it to states. Besides the special window, The 15th Finance Commission, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland The Centre will borrow the states were also granted headed by former bureaucrat and Sikkim — do not have a gap ~1.10 trillion on this account. permission to borrow an N K Singh, identified 14 states in revenue on account of GST The amount released this additional 0.5 per cent of their which would face a revenue implementation. week was raised at an interest respective gross state domestic deficit post-devolution. All states and three UTs rate of 4.2 per cent. The product from markets. INDIVJAL DHASMANA কলকাতা বহিতবারৃ ১০ িডেসার, (http://www.technoglobalhospital.com) (http://www.technoglobalhospital.com) ২০২০ (http://www.eaajkaal.in)

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