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History of Noida Toll Bridge Comp. Ltd.

YEAR EVENTS 1996 - The Comp. was Incorporated on April 8th, under the Companies Act, 1956 for purposes of developing, establishing, designing, constructing, operating & maintaining the Project.

- NTBCL is a Special Purpose Vehicle promoted by IL&FS.

1997 - On November 12, a Concession Agreement was entered into by NOIDA, NTBCL & IL&FS conferring to NTBCL, the right to Build, Own, Operate & Transfer [BOOTs] the Toll Bridge & the other Project Facilities.

- Authorised share capital of Comp. is Rs 12,500 lakhs divided into 12,50,00,000 No. of Equity Shares of Rs 10 each.

1998 - A deed of Adherence to the Shareholders Agreement has been executed between NTBCL & IL&FS Trust Comp. Limited on behalf of AIG on December, 21st.

- The land lease agreements comprising Delhi Land Lease Deed, Delhi Lands Sub-Lease Deed & Noida Land Lease Deed were signed between Government of NCT Delhi, NOIDA & the Noida Toll Bridge Comp. on 23rd October.

- The Noida Toll Bridge Comp. limited proposes to establish an additional bridge across the river Yamuna as a toll bridge to serve the needs of region.

- The Comp. proposes to use a technology for bridge which involves a continuous box girder deck based design requiring less raw materials for construction.

- The Comp. has allotted 2,50,00,007 No. of Equity Shares of Rs 10/- each fully paid up for cash at par.

1999 - Noida Toll Bridge Company, promoted by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services [IL&FSs] & New Okhla Industrial Development Authority [NOIDAs] in April 1996, for purpose of constructing the New Delhi-NOIDA link bridge on BOOT [Build-own-operate-transfers] basis, is entering the capital market with a simultaneous but unliked offer of deep discount bonds [DDBss] aggregating Rs 50 crore & fully convertible debentures [FCDss] aggregating Rs 20.78 crore.

- The Comp. has set up a Fee Review Committee [FRCs] to monitor the toll charges.

2000

-Awarded one of its bridge contracts at the Delhi end of project to Afcons Infrastructure Ltd.

2002

-Mr. Anup Mishra is appointed in his ex-officio capacity as Secretary, Dept. of Industrial Development, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh.

-Mr. Arun K Saha has resigned from the Board & Ms. Archana Hingorani was appointed alternate to Mr. Shahzaad Dalal.

-IDBI Nominated Mr Pradeep Kumar Sethi, Deputy General Manager, to join the Board of Directors w.e.f. September 24, 2002. The final Composition of BOD as on date are : 1s] Mr Gopi Arora 2s] Mr RK Bhargava 3s] Mr Prabil Raj 4s] Mr P K Sethi 5s] Mr Ravi Parthasarathy 6s] Mr Hari Sankaran 7s] Mr K Ramchand 8s] Mr Stephen Temple 9s] Mr Shahzaad Dalal 10s] Mr Santosh Senapati 11s] Mr Timothy Woodhead

2003

-Registered Office of Comp. has shifted from : Toll Plaza, DND Flyway, Opposite Sector 15A, Noida 201 301 TO : Present Address : 205, 2nd Floor, Ocean Plaza, Sector 18, Noida 201 301.

-Appointment of Dr. Om Prakash, CEO, has lapsed on September 16, 2003. Dr. Om Prakash appointment was an ex-officio appointment & due to a change in his portfolio the re-appointment at the Annual General Meeting was not taken up.

-The final composition of Board of Directors of Comp. as on date is as follows: 1s]Mr. Gopi Arora 2s]Mr RK Bhargava 3s]Mr T.T. Joseph 4s]Mr. Prabil Raj 5s]Mr. P.K. Sethi 6s]Mr. Ravi Parthasarathy 7s]Mr. Hari Sankaran 8s]Mr. K Ramchand 9s]Mr. Stephen Temple 10s] Mr. Shahzaad Dalal 11s]Mr. Santosh Senapati 12s]Mr. Timothy Woodhead.

-Board approves increase in existing authorised share capital of Comp. from Rs 1250 million to Rs 1500 million.

-Appointment of Mr. Brijesh Kumar, Chairman and CEO, NOIDA, in his ex-officio capacity; iis] appointment of Mr. Mohd. Haleem Khan, ACEO, NOIDA, in his ex-officio capacity.

-Corporate Debt Restructuring [CDRs] empowered group of Banks & Financial Institutions approved the company restructuring package on October 29, 2002 which was subsequently signed & issued via letter of intent

2006

- Noida Toll Bridge Comp. Ltd has informed that the Board of Directors of Comp. at its meeting held on October 26, 2006 has appointed Mr. Deepak Premnarayen as Additional Director of Company.

2007

-Noida Toll Bridge Comp. Ltd has appointed Mr. Sanjiv Saran, Chief Executive Officer, New Okhla Industrial Development Authority as Additional Director.