CODE OF CONDUCT
FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SENIOR
MANAGEMENT OF TURBOTECH ENGINEERING LIMITED
The board of directors and senior management of the Company, as the
context may require or mean, shall subscribe to the following Code of Conduct
adopted by the Board:
1.
DEFINATION:
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“Board” shall mean
board of Turbotech Engineering Limited, as the context may require or mean.
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“Company” shall
mean Turbotech Engineering Limited as the context may require or mean.
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“Code” shall mean
this Code of Conduct.
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“Senior Management”
shall mean the employees or officers of Turbotech Engineering Limited as
the context may require or mean, having designations of senior manager and
above.
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“Management” shall
collectively mean the Board and Senior Management.
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“GAAP” shall mean
generally accepted accounting principles applicable to Indian companies in
respect of financial reports prepared and presented as per applicable laws.
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2.
INTRODUCTION
This code has been adopted by the company to comply with the applicable
rules of the stock exchanges where securities of the Company are listed.
The principal duty of the Board, along with the senior Management, is to
ensure that the Company is well managed and recognize that their primary
responsibility is to the shareholders of the Company. The board is entrusted
with the responsibility of making decisions on several matters relating to the
Company.
3.
MAINTENANCE OF
ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS
Senior Management shall prepare and maintain true and fair accounts and
records of affairs of the Company.
The accounts and records shall be maintained in accordance with the
applicable accounting and financial reporting standards, GAAP, laws and
regulations of the country in which the Company operates its business affairs.
Internal accounting and audit procedures shall fairly and accurately
reflect all the business transactions and disposition of assets of the Company.
There shall be no wilful omissions of any Company transactions from the
books and records, no advance, income recognition, and no hidden bank account
and funds.
Any willful material misrepresentation of and/or misinformation on the
financial accounts and reports shall be regarded as a violation of this Code and
apart from inviting appropriate civil or criminal action under the relevant laws
as applicable.
4.
PROVIDE
QUALITY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Management shall be committed to supply goods and services of the promised
quality & standards, backed by after sales service consistent with the
requirements of the consumers.
5.
PROVIDE SAFETY
AND HEALTHY WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Management shall strive provide a safe working environment and comply, in
the conduct of the business affairs of the Company, with all regulations
regarding the maintenance of the environment of the territory in which it
operates.
Management will be committed to prevent wasteful use of natural resources
and minimize any hazardous impact of the development, production, use and
disposal of any of its products and services on the ecological environment.
6.
ENHANCE
SHAREHOLDERS VALUE
Management shall be committed to provide good services to the shareholders
and stakeholders and stakeholders of the company to enhance their value.
Management is committed to comply with applicable rules, regulation and
laws that govern shareholders rights.
Board shall duly and fairly inform its shareholders all relevant aspects
of the Company’s business that are required to be disclosed in accordance with
applicable rules and regulations.
Management shall be responsible for the implementation of and compliance
with this Code in his professional environment. Failure to adhere to the code
could attract the consequences, including termination of employment, as
applicable.
7.
PROFESSIONAL
INTEGRITY, HONESTY AND ETHICAL CONDUCT
Senior management is expected to act in accordance with the highest
standards of personal and professional integrity and ethical conduct while
working on the Company’s premises at offsite location where the Company’s
business is being conducted or at any other place where they are representing
Company.
Honest conduct is conduct that is free from any fraud or deception.
Ethical conduct is ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest
between personal and professional relationship.
Senior management shall ensure, at all times, the integrity of data or
information furnished by him or her to the Company.
Senior management Company shall promptly report to the management any
actual or possible violation of this code, or an event he or she becomes aware
of that could affect business or reputation of his/her or any other Group
Company.
8.
COMLIANCES
Management shall comply with all the applicable laws and regulations, both
in letter and in spirit in all the territories in which he or she operates.
If the ethical and professional standards set out in the applicable laws
and regulations are below that of the code, then the standards of the code shall
prevail.
9.
BRANDS AND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY
Manuals, codes and agreements of the Company shall govern the use of the
Company name and trademarks owned by the Company.
The use of the Company brand is permitted only by the Board of directors
of the Company.
All documents, processes, manuals, literature, systems etc. or any other
intellectual property developed or created by the Management during the
association of the Management with the Company are sole property and
intellectual property rights of the Company.
10.
LEGAL COMPLIANCES
The Officers shall comply with all applicable government laws, rules and
regulations applicable to the Company.
The employees and directors shall acquire appropriate knowledge of the
legal requirements relating to their duties to enable themselves to recognize
potential dangers. Violations of applicable governmental laws, rules and
regulations may subject them to individual criminal or liability, as well as to
disciplinary action by the company. Such individual violations may also subject
the company to civil or criminal liability or the loss of business.
11.
NON ALIGNMENT WITH
POLITICAL PARTIES
The Company and its Officers shall be committed to and support a
functioning democratic constitution and system with a transparent and fair
electoral system in India.
The Company and its Officers shall nor support, directly or indirectly,
any specific political party or candidate for political purposes.
The Company may contribute any amount or amounts, directly or indirectly,
to any political party or for any political purpose to any other person as per
the limit prescribed under the Companies Act, 1956
12.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
The Company shall provide equal opportunity to all its employees and all
qualified applicants for employment without regard to their race, caste,
religion, color, ancestry, material status, sex, age, nationality, disability
and veteran status.
Employees of the Company shall be treated with dignity and in accordance
with the company policy to maintain a work environment, free from any
harassment, whether physical, verbal or psychonological.
13.
GIFTS AND DONATIONS
The Management shall neither receive nor offer or make, directly or
indirectly, any illegal payments, remunerations, gifts, donations or comparable
benefits which are intended to or perceived to obtain business or uncompetitive
favours for the conduct of its business.
However, the Management may accept and offer nominal gifts, which are
customarily given and are of a commemorative nature, for special events provided
the same shall be disclosed appropriately to the Board.
14.
COMPETITION
The Company strives to outperform its competition fairly and honestly. No
Member shall take unfair advantages of any information or indulge in unfair
practice for the benefit of the Company.
Company shall not engage in activities, which generates or support the
formation of monopolies, dominant market positions, cartels and similar unfair
trade practices.
15.
CO OPERATION TO GROUP
AND ASSOCIATES COMPANIES
The Management shall cooperate with other group companies and associates
companies by sharing physical, human and management resources as long as this
does not adversely affect its business interests and shareholders’ value. In the
procurement of products and services, the Company shall give preference to
another group company or associate company as long as it can provide these on
competitive terms relative to third parties.
16.
REPRESENTATION TO THE
PUBLIC AND STAKEHOLDERS
The management honours the information requirements of the public and the
stakeholders of the company.
In all its public appearance with respect to disclosing Company and
business information to public constituencies such as the media, the financial
community, employees and shareholders, only specifically authorized directors
and/or officer shall represent the company.
It will be the sole responsibility of these authorized representatives to
disclose information of the Company.
17.
CONCURRENT EMPLOYMENT
The Management shall not, without the prior approval of the authorized
officer of the Company, accept employment or a position of responsibility (such
as a consultant or a director) with any other Company, nor provide “freelance”
services to anyone.
18.
ASSIGNMENTS OUTSIDE
THE COMPANY
With the prior approval of the Board, the Management may take the position
of office bearer of a professional body, give talks at programmes, be a
part-time faculty at recognized degree or diploma programmes, and publish a book
or a paper. It is expected that the Management does it in his own time and with
his own resources. Further, such an association should not result in the
Management divulging Company’s confidential and proprietary information or
she/he neglecting his/her professional duties of the company.
19.
CORPORATE OPPORTUNITY
The shall not exploit for their own personal gain, opportunities that are
discovered through the use of Company property, information or position, unless
the opportunity is disclosed fully in writing to the Company’s Board and the
Board declines to pursue such opportunity.
20.
CONFIDENTIALITY
The Management shall not disclose/reveal any
facts/figures/information/trade secrets or confidential documents in
written/verbal form, obtained during the course of their employment, to any
person(s)/authority/organization/authority/statutory body unless required by law
and/or with specific written permission of the company.
21.
CONFLICT OF INTREST
A conflict of interest arises when personal interest interferes in any way
with the interest of the company.
Management shall not engage in any business relationship or activity,
which might detrimentally conflict with the interest of the Company or the
group.
Notwithstanding that conflict of interest exist due to any historical
reasons; adequate and full disclosure by the interested employees should be made
to the Company’s management.
It is also incumbent upon every Employee to make a full disclosure of any
interest which the Employee or the Employee’s immediate family, which would
include parents, spouse and children, may have in a company or firm which is a
supplier, customer, distributor or has other business dealings with the company.
Every Employee who is required to make a disclosure as mentioned above
shall do so, in writing to his or her immediate superior, who shall forward the
information along with comments to the person designated for this purpose by the
Managing Director, who in turn will place it before the Board of
Directors/executive committee appointed by the board and, upon a decision being
taken in the matter, the Employee concerned will be required to take necessary
action as advised to resolve/avoid the conflict.
If an Employee fails to make a disclosure as required herein, and the
management of its own accord becomes aware of an instance of conflict of
interest that ought to have been disclosed by the Employee. The management would
take a serious view of the matter and consider suitable disciplinary action
against the Employee concerned.
22.
SALE AND PURCHASE OF
SECURITIES OF THE COMPANY
Employees or their immediate family shall not derive any benefit or assist
others to derive any benefit from the access to and possession of information
about the Company or the group, which is not in the public domain and thus
constitutes insider information.
Employees shall not use or proliferate information which is not available
to the investing public and which therefore constitute insider information for
making or giving advice on investment decisions on the securities of the Company
on which such insider information has been obtained.
23.
PROTECTING COMPANY’S
PROPERTY
The assets of the Company should not be misused but employed for the
purpose of conducting the business for which they are duly authorized. These
include tangible assets such as equipment and machinery, systems, facilities,
materials, resources as well as intangible assets such as proprietary
information, relationship with customers and suppliers, etc.
24.
CITIZENSHIP
Senior management shall in his or her private life be free to pursue an
active role in civic or political affairs as long as it does not adversely
affect the business or interests of the company or the group and provided that
the same have been appropriately disclosed by th employee or the officer and
prior written approval of the Managing Director or CEO has been obtained. If
person belonging to Senior management cadre fails to make a disclosure as
required herein, and the management of its own accord becomes aware of an
instance of conflict of interest that ought to have been disclosed by the
employee or the officer , in the management would take a serious view of the
matter and consider suitable disciplinary action against the employee or the
officer.
25.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
All authorizations/powers of attorney, whether joint or several, issued by
the Company in favour of the Management shall stand revoked effective from the
date of separation of the Management from the services of the company, Even
while serving the notice period, such Management will use these authorizations
when must due discretion and sparingly. Upon such separation, the Management
shall immediately arrange to return all such documents/authorizations, both
originals and copies. If for any reason such person fails to return such
information /documents/data etc. the Company will have a right to withhold
his/her dues from the Company.