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NOTES:1.In view of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) has videits circular dated 13th January, 2021 read with circulars dated 5th May, 2020, 8th April, 2020 and13th April, 2020 (collectively referred to as “MCA Circulars”) permitted the holding of the AnnualGeneral Meeting (“AGM”) through VC / OAVM Facility, without the physical presence of theMembers at a common venue. In compliance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 (“theAct”), SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (“SEBI ListingRegulations”), MCA Circulars and circular dated 15th January, 2021 read with 12th May 2020 issuedby the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI Circular”), the 41st AGM of the Company isbeing held through VC / OAVM Facility. The detailed procedure for participating in the throughVC/OAVM Facility is mentioned hereunder in this notice. The deemed venue for the 41st AGM shallbe the Registered Office of the Company.In terms of the MCA Circulars and SEBI Circular, the Notice of the 41st AGM will be available on thewebsite of the Company at www.jslstainless.com, on the website of BSE Limited atwww.bseindia.com and National Stock Exchange of India Limited at www.nseindia.com and alsoon the website of Link Intime India Private Limited, at https://instavote.linkintime.co.in/2. Pursuant to the provisions of the Act, a Member entitled to attend and vote at the AGM is entitledto appoint a proxy to attend and vote on his/her behalf and the proxy need not be a Member ofthe Company. Since this AGM is being held pursuant to the MCA Circulars and SEBI Circular throughVC / OAVM Facility, physical attendance of Members has been dispensed with. Accordingly, thefacility for appointment of proxies by the Members will not be available for the 41 st AGM of theCompany and therefore the Proxy Form and Attendance Slip are not annexed to this Notice.3. Attendance of the Members of the Company, participating in the 41st AGM through VC / OAVMFacility will be counted for the purpose of reckoning the quorum under section 103 of the Act.4. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 108 of the Act read with Rule 20 of the Companies(Management and Administration) Rules, 2014 (as amended), Secretarial Standard on GeneralMeetings (SS-2) issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (“ICSI”) and Regulation44 of SEBI Listing Regulations read with MCA Circulars and SEBI Circular, the Company is providingremote e-Voting facility to its Members in respect of the business to be transacted at the 41st AGMand facility for those Members participating in the 41st AGM to cast vote through e-Voting systemduring the 41st AGM. Link Intime India Private Limited (“Link Intime/Registrar”) will be providingfacility for voting through remote e-Voting, for participation in the 41st AGM through VC/OAVMFacility and e-Voting during the 41st AGM.5. At the 37th AGM, Walker Chandiok & Co. LLP (Firm Regn. No. 001076N/N500013) were appointedas Statutory Auditors of the Company for a term of five years until the conclusion of 42nd AGM ofthe Company.Annual Report 2020-21Jindal Stainless Limited30

The ratification of their appointment, pursuant to Section 139 of the Act, is not required, in termsof Notification No. S.O. 1833(E) dated May 7, 2018, issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs andaccordingly, such item has not been included in the Ordinary Business of this AGM Notice.6. The relevant details as required under Regulation 36(3) of the SEBI Listing Regulations andSecretarial Standard on General Meetings ("SS-2") of the persons seeking re-appointment asDirectors under Item No. 2, 3 & 4 of the Notice, are also attached. The Company has receivedrelevant disclosures / consents from the Directors seeking re-appointment.7. An Explanatory Statement pursuant to Section 102 of the Act relating to special businesses to betransacted at the meeting is annexed hereto.8. Pursuant to Section 91 of the Act and Regulation 42 of the SEBI Listing Regulations, the Register ofMembers and the Share Transfer books of the Company will remain closed from Monday, 13thSeptember, 2021 to Tuesday, 14th September, 2021 (both days inclusive) for the purpose of 41stAGM of the Company.9. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (‘SEBI’) has mandated submission of Permanent AccountNumber (‘PAN’) by every participant in securities market. Members holding shares in electronicform are, therefore, requested to submit the PAN to their Depository Participants with whom theyare maintaining their demat accounts. Members holding shares in physical form are requested tosubmit their PAN details to the Registrar.10. SEBI has also mandated that requests for effecting transfer of securities (except transmission ortransposition of securities) shall not be processed after March 31, 2019, unless the securities are heldin dematerialized form. Hence, the Members holding shares in physical form are requested to converttheir holdings to dematerialized form at the earliest.11. Pursuant to the MCA Circulars and SEBI Circular, in view of the prevailing situation, owing to thedifficulties involved in dispatching of physical copies of the Notice of the 41st AGM and the AnnualReport for the year 2020-21 including therein the Audited Financial Statements for financial yearended 31st March 2021, are being sent only by email to the Members. Members who have notregistered their email addresses with the Company or with their respective DepositoryParticipant/s and who wish to receive the Notice of the 41st AGM and the Annual Report for theyear 2020-21 and all other communication sent by the Company, from time to time, can nowregister for the same by submitting a duly filled-in request form mentioning their folio number,complete address, email address to be registered along with scanned self-attested copy of the PANCard and any document (such as Driving License, Passport, Bank Statement, Aadhaar Card)supporting the registered address of the Member, by email to the Company / Registrar. Membersholding shares in demat form are requested to register their email addresses with their DepositoryParticipant(s) only.Annual Report 2020-21Jindal Stainless Limited31

12. The voting rights of Members shall be in proportion to their share of the paid-up equity sharecapital of the Company as on the cut-off date i.e. Thursday, 09th September, 2021 and as per theRegister of Members of the Company. A person who is not a Member as on the cut-off date shouldtreat this Notice for information purpose only.13. In case of joint holders attending the Meeting, only the Member whose name appears first will beentitled to vote.14. Since 41st AGM of the Company will be held through VC / OAVM Facility, therefore Route Map isnot annexed to this Notice.EXPLANATORY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 102 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013 ANDSECRETARIAL STANDARD 2 ON GENERAL MEETINGS ISSUED BY THE INSTITUTE OF COMPANYSECRETARIES OF INDIAITEM NO. 3Mr. Abhyuday Jindal’s tenure as Managing Director of the Company was upto 24th April, 2021.Considering the valuable contribution made by Mr. Abhyuday Jindal during his tenure as ManagingDirector of the Company, the Board of Directors at their meeting held on 04th February, 2021, upon therecommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Board of Directors hadapproved the re-appointment of Mr. Abhyuday Jindal as Managing Director of the Company for anotherperiod of three years commencing from 25th April, 2021 till 24th April, 2024, subject to the requisiteapprovals including from the Members. His term as Director will be subject to retirement by rotation.Mr. Abhyuday Jindal is not disqualified from being appointed as Managing Director in terms of Section196 of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) and he has given his consent to act as Managing Director.Mr. Jindal is also not debarred from holding the office of a Director by virtue of any SEBI order or anyother authority.The information as required under the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements)Regulations, 2015 and Secretarial Standard-2 is provided under the head “Additional Information”.In compliance with the provisions of the Act, the terms of remuneration specified in the resolution areplaced before the Members in this AGM for their approval.There is no contract of services in writing with Mr. Abhyuday Jindal. The terms set out in the resolutionmay be treated in compliance of Section 190 of the Act.Your Directors recommend passing the resolution as set out at Item No. 3 of this notice as an OrdinaryResolution for your approval.Annual Report 2020-21Jindal Stainless Limited32

Mr. Abhyuday Jindal is interested in the resolution as set out at Item No. 3 of this Notice. Mr. RatanJindal, Chairman and Managing Director of the Company being related to Mr. Abhyuday Jindal may bedeemed to be interested in the said resolution. The other relatives of Mr. Abhyuday Jindal may bedeemed to be interested to the extent of their shareholding interest, if any, in the Company. Save andexcept the above, none of the Directors/ key Managerial Personnel(s) of the Company/ their relativeare, in any way, concerned or interested, financially or otherwise in the above referred resolution.ITEM NO. 4Mr. Tarun Kumar Khulbe’s tenure as Wholetime Director of the Company was upto 14th May, 2021.Considering the valuable contribution made by Mr. Khulbe during his tenure as Wholetime Director ofthe Company, the Board of Directors at its meeting held on 04th February, 2021, upon therecommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Board of Directors hadapproved the re-appointment of Mr. Khulbe as Wholetime Director of the Company for another periodof three years commencing from 15th May, 2021 till 14th May, 2024, subject to the requisite approvalsincluding from the Members. His term as Director will be subject to retirement by rotation.Mr. Tarun Kumar Khulbe is not disqualified from being appointed as Wholetime Director in terms ofSection 196 of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”) and he has given his consent to act as WholetimeDirector. Mr. Tarun Kumar Khulbe is also not debarred from holding the office of a Director by virtueof any SEBI order or any other authority.The information as required under the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements)Regulations, 2015 and Secretarial Standard-2 is provided under the head “Additional Information”.In compliance with the provisions of the Act, the terms of remuneration specified in the resolution areplaced before the Members in this AGM for their approval.There is no contract of services in writing with Mr. Tarun Kumar Khulbe. The terms set out in theresolution may be treated in compliance of Section 190 of the Act.Your Directors recommend passing the resolution as set out at Item No. 4 of this notice as an OrdinaryResolution for your approval.Mr. Tarun Kumar Khulbe being concerned along with his relatives may be deemed to be interested inthe resolution set out at Item No. 4 of this notice, to the extent of their shareholding interest, if any, inthe Company. Save and except the above, none of the Directors/ Key Managerial Personnel(s) of theCompany/ their relatives are, in any way, concerned or interested, financially or otherwise in the abovereferred resolution.Annual Report 2020-21Jindal Stainless Limited33

ITEM NO. 5In terms of the provisions of the Section 148 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Companies(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended from time to time, the Company is required to maintainthe cost records for its product and services in its books of account and get its cost record audited.The Board of Directors, in its meeting held on 14th May, 2021, on the basis of recommendation of theAudit Committee appointed M/s. Ramanath Iyer & Co., Cost Accountants, as Cost Auditors to conductaudit of cost records of the Company for the financial year 2021-22 and subject to ratification bymembers, fixed their remuneration at Rs. 1,92,500/- (Rupees One Lakh Ninety Two Thousand andFive Hundred only), which shall exclude reimbursement for direct and allocated expenses incurred inconnection with the performance of the services on actual basis and applicable taxes.Pursuant to Section 148 of the Companies Act 2013 read with the Companies (Cost Records and Audit)Rules, 2014 and Rule 14 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, the remuneration payableto Cost Auditors should be ratified by the shareholders of the Company.Your Directors recommend passing of the resolution as set out at Item no. 5 of this notice as anordinary resolution for your approval.None of the Directors, Key Managerial Personnel(s) of the Company or their relatives is, in any way,concerned or interested, financially or otherwise in the said resolution.ITEM NO. 6The Company in the ordinary course of its business and on arm’s length basis, enters into transactionsfor sale / purchase of goods / services/ allocating common corporate expenditure with Jindal Stainless(Hisar) Limited (“JSHL”), Jindal Stainless Steelway Limited (“JSSL”), Jindal United Steel Limited(“JUSL”), JSL Global Commodities Pte. Ltd. (“JSL Global”) and Prime Stainless DMCC (“Prime”), therelated parties of the Company.Further, JSHL has availed a term loan facility aggregating to Rs. 50 Crore from Axis Finance Limited(“AFL”). For the purpose of securing the above facility the security has been perfected by JSHL on itsassets on pari-passu basis with its existing lenders. One of the security conditions of the aforesaidfacility is to provide corporate guarantee of Jindal Stainless Limited (“the Company”) in favour of AFL.Accordingly, JSHL has approached the Company to provide a corporate guarantee to secure theaforesaid facility.The Board of Directors in its meeting held on 26th July, 2021, upon the recommendation of the AuditCommittee, subject to the approval of the members, has approved to issue corporate guarantee forsecuring the facility provided by AFL to JSHL, the borrower. The aforesaid corporate guarantee willbe within the overall limits under Section 186 of the Companies Act, 2013 as approved by themembers vide a special resolution through Postal Ballot on 6th March, 2016.Annual Report 2020-21Jindal Stainless Limited34

The value of the transactions proposed, which will be on an arm’s length basis, are based on theCompany’s estimated transaction value for the financial year 2021-22.Regulation 23(4) of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (“SEBIRegulations”) provides that all material related party transactions shall require approval of themembers through Ordinary Resolution. The explanation to Regulation 23(1) of the SEBI Regulationsprovides that a transaction with a related party shall be considered material if the transaction(s) to beentered into individually or taken together with previous transactions during a financial year, exceedsten percent of the annual consolidated turnover of the listed entity as per the last audited financialstatements of the listed entity.The above mentioned transactions between the Company and the ‘Related Parties’ are likely toexceed the thresholds of materiality limits as defined under the SEBI Regulations and the Policy ondealing with Related Party Transactions of the Company, during the financial year 2021-22.Your Directors recommend passing of the resolution as set out at item no. 6 of this Notice as anOrdinary Resolution for your approval.Except Mr. Ratan Jindal, Chairman and Director of JSHL & Director of JUSL, Mr. Abhyuday Jindal,Managing Director of JSHL and Mr. Tarun Kumar Khulbe, Director of JSSL and their relatives, none ofthe other Director(s) / Key Managerial Personnel(s) of the Company / their relatives are, in anywayconcerned or interested, financially or otherwise, in the said resolution, except to the extent of theirshareholding interest, if any, in the Company and the referred ‘Related Parties'.By order of the BoardFor Jindal Stainless LimitedRegistered Office:O.P. Jindal MargHisar – 125005, Haryana.16th August, 2021Navneet RaghuvanshiCompany SecretaryMembership No. A14657Annual Report 2020-21Jindal Stainless Limited35

ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONInformation as required in terms of Regulation 36(3) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and DisclosureRequirements) Regulations, 2015 and Secretarial Standard - 2 issued by the Institute of CompanySecretaries of India for Item Nos. 2, 3 & 4.Brief Profile of director who retire by rotation and eligible for re- appointment/ director(s) being reappointed:A.Details of Mr. Ratan Jindal, Chairman and Managing DirectorName of DirectorDINBrief ResumeMr. Ratan Jindal00054026A Commerce graduate and alumni of Wharton School ofManagement, Mr Ratan Jindal is the Chairman of India’s largeststainless steel manufacturing group, Jindal Stainless. Part of the USD25 billion OP Jindal Group, the foundation of Jindal Stainless was laidin 1970. Under his stewardship, the group has grown from a producerof basic stainless steel products to a USD 2.70 billion (March'21)company providing state-of-the-art stainless steel solutions.Known for his technical proficiency and intimate knowledge ofcustomers and markets, Mr Jindal is synonymous to stainless steel inIndia. As a vanguard of innovation in the steel industry, his focus hasnot only been on producing world-class stainless steel products, butalso on promoting the usage of stainless steel in myriad applications.His vision for Jindal Stainless is to improve the lives of people byproducing and promoting a metal that is corrosion resistant, durable,infinitely recyclable and inherently stainless.Having established the Jindal Stainless facility in Hisar (Haryana,India) as the only specialty stainless steel maker in the country, MrJindal set up the Jindal Stainless facility in Jajpur (Odisha, India) in2011. Today, the two plants employ over 12,000 people, and have acapacity to produce 1.9 million tonnes of stainless steel. Mr Jindal hasexpanded t

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