Summary of Key Information:
Reporting Period (Quarter/Year): Not Applicable (Board Meeting Decisions)
Nature of Filing / Announcement: Outcome of Board Meeting under Regulation 30 of SEBI LODR
Date of Board Meeting / Approval: September 29, 2026
Audit Opinion: Not Specified
Auditor’s Comment: Not Specified
Key Financial Highlights:
Standalone Results: Not Specified
Consolidated Results: Not Specified
Segment-wise Performance: Not Specified
Corporate Actions:
Dividend declarations: Not Specified
Buyback Approval:
- Approved buyback of up to 1,562,500 fully paid-up equity shares (face value INR 2 each)
- Represents 2.03% of the total paid-up equity share capital
- Buyback price set at INR 960 per equity share
- Total buyback size: INR 1,500,000,000 (INR Fifteen Hundred Million)
- Buyback size represents 6.76% and 6.15% of aggregate of fully paid-up equity share capital and free reserves as per latest audited standalone and consolidated financial statements as at March 31, 2026, respectively
- Transaction costs (brokerage, fees, taxes, SEBI filing fees, advisor/legal fees, publication expenses) are excluded from the buyback size
- Method: Tender offer route
- Eligibility: All equity shareholders/beneficial owners as on record date, excluding promoters and promoter group members
- Promoters and promoter group have expressed intention not to participate via letter dated September 29, 2026
- Record date set for October 9, 2026
- Buyback Committee formed to manage the process
Capital Raising: Not Specified
Other Significant Information:
Pre-buyback Shareholding Pattern (as on September 25, 2026):
- Promoter and Promoter Group: 52,749,590 shares (68.66%)
- Mutual Funds: 8,631,817 shares (11.23%)
- Resident Individuals (Up to Rs. 2 Lakhs): 6,920,498 shares (9.00%)
- Resident Individuals (Excess of Rs. 2 Lakhs): 1,053,882 shares (1.37%)
- Foreign Portfolio - Corp: 2,322,258 shares (3.02%)
- IEPF Authority: 1,158,525 shares (1.51%)
- HUF: 1,099,248 shares (1.43%)
- Bodies Corporates: 950,372 shares (1.24%)
- Alternative Investment Fund: 759,526 shares (0.99%)
- Qualified Institutional Buyer: 653,949 shares (0.85%)
- Non Resident Indian (Non Repatriable): 270,006 shares (0.35%)
- Non Resident Indian (Repatriable): 243,946 shares (0.32%)
- Other categories (Clearing Members, Trusts, FIIs, NBFC, Banks): Minimal holdings
- Total Shareholders: 47,787
- Total Equity Shares: 76,831,142
Meeting Timing: Commenced at 11:15 AM and concluded at 1:30 PM
Post-buyback shareholding pattern: To be ascertained after completion of buyback