JK Cement approves creation of mortgage against company assets to avail loans up to ₹12,000 crore
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JK Cement Share Price | The directors have unanimously also considered and approved of four other reoslutions. These include, the approval of creating charge/mortgage/hypothecation on the company’s assets against availing loans or facilities up to ₹12,000 crore.
JK Cement on Tuesday, April 2, said the company’s board has approved increasing the borrowing limit of the firm from ₹7,500 crore to ₹12,000 crore.
The directors have unanimously also considered and approved of four other resolutions. These include, the approval of creating charge / mortgage / hypothecation on the company’s assets against availing loans or facilities up to ₹12,000 crore.
The third resolution is the approval of the postal ballot notice to seek members’ approval for the appointment of Praveen Mahajan and Rakesh Sethi as non-executive independent directors of the company for five years.
The fourth resolution is the appointment of SK Gupta and Divya Saxena, as practicing company secretary each, as the scrutiziser and alternate scrutiniser, respectively, to conduct the postal ballot and e-voting process.
The last resolution is considering the appointment of NSDL to provide the service of sending postal ballot notices and providing e-voting facility for the same.
In an interaction with CNBC-TV18 in February, the company’s management said that it expects volume growth between 8% to 10% for financial year 2025, backed by capacity additions.
“We have new capacities coming up in Prayagraj, and the capacity commissioned in Ujjain will give us more volume leverage. So, overall we still believe that we’ll be able to clock a healthy volume growth next year in spite of a relatively slow start to the market,” Anuj Khandelwal, business head of JK Cement, told CNBC-TV18.
JK Cement shares were trading 0.47% lower at ₹4,263 apiece at 2.20 pm on April 2. The stock has gained 46.41% in the past year.
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