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Wipro Ltd Computers - Software - Large
BSE Code
507685
ISIN Demat
INE075A01022
Book Value
98.35
NSE Symbol
WIPRO
Div & Yield %
1.75546
Market Cap (Rs Cr.)
84035.1015
P/E
14.87571
EPS
22.93
Face Value
2



Directors





Dear Shareholders,

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am happy to present the 65th Directors’ Report of your Company along with the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account for the year ended March 31, 2011.

Financial Performance

Key aspects of consolidated financial performance for Wipro and its group companies and standalone financial results for Wipro Limited for the financial year 2010-11 are tabulated below:

(Rs. in Mn)

Consolidated Standalone
2010-11 2009-10 2010-11 2009-10
Sales and Other income 316,938 276,505 269,038 237,887
Profit before Tax 62,348 55,095 57,055 56,888
Provision for Tax 9,695 9,163 8,618 7,908
Minority interest and equity in earnings/(losses) in affiliates 271 378 - -
Profit for the year* 52,924 46,310 48,437 48,980
Appropriations
Interim Dividend 4,908 - 4,908 -
Proposed Dividend on equity shares 9,818 8,809 9,818 8,809
Corporate tax on distributed dividend 2,204 1,283 2,204 1,283
Transfer to General Reserve 4,844 36,218 4,844 38,888
Balance retained in Profit & Loss account 31,150 - 26,663 -

* Profit for the year in standalone result is after Rs. 326 million (March 2010: Rs. 4,534 million of gains/(losses) relating to changes in fair value of forward contracts designated as hedges of net investment in non-integral foreign operations, translation of foreign currency borrowings and changes in fair value of related cross currency swaps together designated as hedges of net investment in non-integral foreign operations. In the consolidated Accounts, these are considered as hedges of net investment in non-integral foreign operations and are recognized directly in shareholders’ funds. (Refer note 6 on page 112)

Global and Industry outlook

According to NASSCOM Strategic Review 2011, IT spend in 2011 is expected to grow about 4%. It is expected that in 2011, there will be increased use of Cloud and Mobile Computing. IT Services is expected to grow by about 3.5% in 2011 and 4.5% in 2012. Organisations will look for alternative IT models like Cloud, On-demand Services, SaaS, etc, – in order to reduce hardware infrastructure costs and achieve scalability on demand. The Forrester US and Global IT market Outlook Q3, 2010-11 predicts that U.S. IT market will grow by 6.6% in 2011. Companies are increasingly turning to Offshore Technology Service providers in order to meet their needs for high quality, cost competitive technology solutions. As a result, spending in several IT categories is expected to expand.

Subsidiary Companies

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, has granted a general exemption under section 212(8) of the Companies Act, 1956 from the requirement to attach detailed financial statements of each subsidiary. In compliance with the exemption granted, we have presented in page 163 & 164 summary financial information for each subsidiary.

The detailed financial statements and audit reports of each of the subsidiaries are available for inspection at the registered office of the company during office hours between 11 am to 1 pm and upon written request from a shareholder, your company will arrange to send the financial statements of subsidiary companies to the said shareholder.

Consolidated Results

Our Sales for the current year grew by 15% to Rs.. 316,938 million and our Profit for the year was Rs. 52,924 million, recording an increase of 14% over the previous year. Over the last 10 years, our Sales and Profit after Tax have grown at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 26% and 23% respectively.

Dividend

Your Directors recommend a final Dividend of 200% (Rs. 4/- per equity share of Rs. 2/- each) to be appropriated from the Profits of the year 2010-11, subject to the approval of the shareholders at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. The Dividend will be paid in compliance with applicable regulations.

During the year 2010-11, unclaimed dividend of Rs. 1,37,605/- was transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund, as required under the Investor Education and Protection Fund (Awareness and Protection of Investor) Rules, 2001.

Interim Dividend

Pursuant to the approval of Board of Directors on January 21, 2011, your company had distributed an interim dividend of Rs. 2/- per share, of face value of Rs. 2/- each, to shareholders, who were on the Register of Members of the company as at closing hours of January 28, 2011, being the record date fixed by the Board of Directors for this purpose.

Issue of Bonus equity shares/American Depository Shares

In terms of approval of the shareholders of the company through Postal Ballot pursuant to Section 192 A(2) of the Companies Act, 1956 read with the companies (Passing of the Resolutions by Postal Ballot) on June 4, 2010, the Company had allotted Bonus equity shares of Rs. 2/- each in the ratio of 2:3 (two bonus shares for every three shares held) to the shareholders of the Company who were on the Register of Members of the Company as on June 16, 2010, being the Record Date fixed by the Board of the Directors of the Company for this purpose.

Mergers and Acquisitions

During the year, the Company re-structured a few of its subsidiaries including overseas subsidiaries through merger/ other legal process.

Wipro Yardley Consumer Care Private Limited, a subsidiary Company got merged with Wipro Limited w.e.f. April 1, 2010, being the Appointed Date.

Investments in direct subsidiaries

During the year under review, your Company had invested an aggregate of USD 34 Mn as equity in its direct subsidiaries i.e. Wipro Cyprus Private Limited, Wipro Inc, Wipro Holdings Mauritius Limited and Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Machinery (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. Apart from this, your Company had funded its subsidiaries, from time to time, as per the fund requirements, through loans, guarantees and other means.

Corporate Governance & Corporate Social Responsibility

Your company believes that Corporate Governance is the basis of stakeholder satisfaction. Your company’s governance practices are described separately in page 63 of this annual report. Your company has obtained a certification from V. Sreedharan & Associates, Company Secretaries on compliance with clause 49 of the listing agreement with Indian Stock Exchanges. This certificate is given in page 92.

With a view to strengthen the Corporate Governance framework, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has incorporated certain provisions in the Companies Bill 2009. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has also issued a set of Voluntary Guidelines on Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in December 2009 for adoption by companies. The Guidelines broadly outline conditions for appointment of directors, guiding principles to remunerate directors, responsibilities of the Board, Risk Management, rotation of audit partners, audit firms and conduct of secretarial audit and other Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility related disclosures. Your Company has by and large complied with various requirements and is in the process of initiating appropriate action for other applicable requirements.

Corporate Governance is also related to Innovation and strategy as the organization’s ideas of Innovation and strategies are driven to enhance stakeholder satisfaction.

Personnel

The particulars of employees as required by Section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employee) Rules, 1975 as amended have been provided as Annexure ‘C’ to this report.

Wipro Employee Stock Option Plans (WESOP) / Restricted Stock Unit Plans

Information relating to stock options program of the Company is provided as Annexure B of this report. The information is being provided in compliance with Clause 12 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Employee Stock Option Scheme) and (Employee Stock Purchase Scheme) Guidelines, 1999, as amended. No employee was issued Stock Option, during the year equal to or exceeding 1% of the issued capital of the Company at the time of grant.

Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgoings

During the year, your company has earned foreign exchange of Rs. 183,771 million and the outgoings in foreign exchange were Rs. 85,642 million, including outgoings on materials imported and dividend.

Research and Development

Requirement under Rule 2 of Companies (Disclosure of particulars in the report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 regarding Technical Absorption and Research and Development in Form B is given in Page 54 of the Annual Report, to the extent applicable.

Conservation of Energy

The Company has taken several steps to conserve energy through its "Eco Eye and Sustainability" initiatives disclosed separately as part of this Annual Report. The information on Conservation of Energy required under Section 217(1)(e) of the Companies Act, 1956 read with Rule 2 of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 is provided in Annexure A in page 53 of this annual report.

Directors:

(A) Appointment

1. Mr. T. K. Kurien was appointed as an Additional Director of the Company with effect from February 1, 2011 in accordance with Section 260 of the Companies Act, 1956, by the Board of Directors at its meeting held on January 21, 2011. Mr. T. K. Kurien will hold office till the date of the Annual General Meeting of the Company scheduled to be held on July 19, 2011. The requisite notices together with necessary deposits have been received from a member pursuant to Section 257 of the Companies Act, 1956 proposing the election of Mr. T.K. Kurien as a Director of the Company. Accordingly, necessary resolution has been included in the notice for calling Annual General Meeting, for his appointment as a Director (designated as CEO (IT Business) and Executive Director).

2. Mr. M.K. Sharma was appointed as an Additional Director of the Company in accordance with Section 260 of the Companies Act, 1956, by the Board of Directors with effect from July 1, 2011. The Additional Director would hold office till the date of Annual General Meeting of the Company scheduled to be held on July 19, 2011. The requisite notices together with necessary deposits have been received from a member pursuant to section 257 of the Companies Act, 1956 proposing the election of Mr. M. K. Sharma, as a Director.

(B) Re-appointment

Articles of Association of the Company provide that at least two-third of our Directors shall be subject to retirement by rotation. One third of these retiring Directors must retire from office at each Annual General Meeting of the shareholders. A retiring Director is eligible for reelection. Mr. Suresh C Senapaty, Mr William Arthur Owens and Mr B C Prabhakar retire by rotation and being eligible offer themselves for reappointment at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. The Board Governance and Nomination Committee have recommended their re-appointment for consideration of the Shareholders.

Board of Directors vide circular resolution of June 15, 2011, re-appointed Mr. Azim H Premji as Chairman and Managing Director of the Company (designated as "Chairman") for a further period of two years with effect from July 31, 2011. This re-appointment is subject to the approval of the shareholders of the Company at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.

(C) Cessation

During the year 2010-11 Mr. Girish S Paranjpe and Mr. Suresh Vaswani resigned as Board members of the company with effect from closure of business hours on January 31, 2011.

The Board places on record the valuable contributions of Mr. Girish S Paranjpe and Mr. Suresh Vaswani during their tenure as Directors of the Company.

Group

The names of the Promoters and entities comprising "group" (and their shareholding) as defined under the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices ("MRTP") Act, 1969 for the purposes of Section 3(1)(e)(i) of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1997 include the following:

Name of the shareholder No. of shares
1 Azim H Premji 93,405,100
2 Yasmeen A Premji 10,62,666
3 Rishad Azim Premji 9,46,666
4 Tariq Azim Premji 2,65,000
5 Mr. Azim Hasham Premji Partner Representing Hasham Traders 543,765,000
6 Mr Azim Hasham Premji Partner Representing Prazim Traders 541,695,000
7 Mr. Azim Hasham Premji Partner Representing Zash Traders 540,408,000
8 Regal Investments & Trading Company Pvt Ltd 1,87,666
9 Vidya Investment & Trading Company Pvt Ltd 1,87,666
10 Napean Trading & Investment Company Pvt Ltd 1,87,666
11 Azim Premji Foundation (I) Pvt. Ltd 10,843,333
12 Azim Premji Trust 2,13,000,000
13 Azim Premji Trustee Company Private Limited NIL
14 Azim Premji Foundation for Development NIL
15 Azim Premji Foundation NIL
16 Azim Premji Trust Services Private Limited Nil
17 Azim Premji Safe Deposits Private Limited Nil
18 Azim Premji Custodial Services Private Limited Nil

Management’s Discussion and Analysis Report

The Management’s Discussion and Analysis on Company’s performance – industry trends and other material changes with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries, wherever applicable, are presented on pages 32 through 48 of this annual report.

Re-appointment of Statutory Auditor

The auditors, M/s. BSR & Co., Chartered Accountants, retire at the ensuing Annual General Meeting and have confirmed their eligibility and willingness to accept office, if re-appointed. The proposal for their re-appointment is included in the notice for Annual General Meeting sent herewith.

Re-appointment of Cost Auditor

Pursuant to the direction from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for appointment of Cost Auditors, your Board of Directors has re-appointed M/s. P.D. Dani & Co., Cost Accountants, as the Cost Auditor for the year ended March 31, 2012.

The Cost Audit report for the year ended March 31, 2010 was due on September 30, 2010 and was filed by the cost Auditor on August 25, 2010.

Fixed Deposits

Your company has not accepted any fixed deposits. Hence, there is no outstanding amount as on the Balance Sheet date.

Green Initiatives in Corporate Governance

Ministry of Corporate Affairs has recently permitted companies to send electronic copies of Annual Report, notices etc., to the e-mail IDs of shareholders. We have accordingly arranged to send the soft copies of these documents to the e-mail IDs of shareholders wherever applicable. In case any of the shareholder would like to receive physical copies of these documents, the same shall be forwarded on written request to the Registrars M/s. Karvy Computer Share Private Limited.

Directors’ Responsibility Statement

On behalf of the Directors I confirm that as required under Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956.

a) In the preparation of the annual accounts, the applicable accounting standards have been followed and that no material departures are made from the same;

b) We have selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give true and fair view of the state of Affairs of the Company at the end of the financial year and of the Profits of the Company for the period;

c) We have taken proper and suficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities; and

d) We have prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis.

Acknowledgements and Appreciation

Your Directors take this opportunity to thank the customers, shareholders, suppliers, bankers, business partners/associates, financial institutions and Central and State Governments for their consistent support and encouragement to the Company. I am sure you will join our Directors in conveying our sincere appreciation to all employees of the Company for their hard work and commitment. Their dedication and competence has ensured that the Company continues be a significant and leading player in the IT services industry.

For and on behalf of the Board of Directors

Azim H. Premji,

Chairman

Bangalore, June 17, 2011

Annexure A forming part of the Directors’ Report

A. DISCLOSURE OF PARTICULARS WITH RESPECT TO

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

( Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Division)

ELECTRICITY 2010-11 2009-10
a. Purchased _ _
Unit KWH 8,528,328 5,683,709
Total Amount Rs. 46,194,564 30,024,982
Rate/Unit Rs. 5.42 5.28
b. Own Generation through DG
Unit KWH 1,080,430 824,978
Unit/Ltr. Of Units 2.91 2.53
Diesel
Cost per unit Rs. 13.28 13.87

B. CONSUMPTION PER UNIT PRODUCTION

( Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Division)

Hydraulic cylinder Electricity (kwh/Cyl.) Diesel (Lts/Cyl.)
2010-11 20.11 0.77
2009-10 20.40 1.02

C. DISCLOSUREOF PARTICULARS WITH RESPECT TO CONVERSATION OF ENERGY

( Wipro Consumer Care Division)

Electricity 2010-11 2009 - 2010
a Purchased _ _
Unit KWH 19,857,756 18,104,719
Total Amount Rs. 98,858,732 81,983,935
Rate/unit Rs. 4.98 4.53
b Own generation _ _
Through Diesel _ _
Generator
Unit KWH 1,961,637 1,047,006
Unit/litre of diesel Units 3.14 3.15
Cost per unit Rs. 12.25 10.90
Coal
Quantity Tones 1,843 2,594
Total Cost Rs. 10,184,851 12,115,327
Av. Rate Rs. 5,528 4,671

 

Furnace Oil 2010-11 2009-10
Quantity FO Ltrs. 3,149,110 4,546,900
Total Cost Rs. 102,419,666 120,679,932
Av. Rate Rs. 32.52 26.54
LPG & Propane
Quantity Kgs. 741,751 697,410
Total Cost Rs. 30,954,644 24,944,813
Av. Rate Rs. 41.73 35.77
Gas
H2
Quantity CMT 108,642 107,623
Total Cost Rs. 3,547,283 3,670,983
Av. Rate Rs. 32.65 34.11

D. CONSUMPTION PER UNIT PRODUCTION

( Wipro Consumer Care Division)

Vanaspati Electricity Liquid Diesel Oil
(KWH/ Tonne) (Litres / Tonne)
ACT STD
2010/11 132.38 109 NA
2009/10 130.53 109 NA

 

General Lighting System Electricity Liquid Diesel Oil
(KWH/ 000 nos.) (Litres / 000 nos.)
ACT STD ACT STD
2010/11 14.04 16.00 0.36 -
2009/10 14.72 16.00 0.37 -

 

Flourescent Tube Light Electricity Liquid Diesel Oil
(KWH/ 000 nos.) (Litres / 000 nos.)
ACT STD ACT STD
2010/11 107.55 129.00 5.19 -
2009/10 135.20 136.00 3.79 -

FORM B

Wipro’s R&D Activities: 2010-11

Wipro’s R&D focus is to strengthen the portfolio of Applied Research, Centers of Excellence (CoE), Solution Accelerators and Software Engineering Tools & Methodologies.

Applied Research

Your Company’s activities in Applied Research are focused around Content Analytics and E-discovery. Investment in Applied Research has helped in collaboration with academic institutes like Georgia Tech for Enterprise Software Infrastructure performance in the cloud and IIIT-B in the space of social analytics. Your Company has filed invention disclosures in the area of query processing incubated solutions of E-discover and made publications in ACM.

Your Company’s researchers were actively involved in Government committees to integrate Rupee sign into ICT environments. Rupee symbol is incorporated into personal computers and first keyboard was created with the Indian Rupee symbol.

Your Company has entered into a joint collaboration agreement with Imec, a leading research institution from Belgium, world leader in Applied Research in Semiconductor and Nano technology in March 2011. The joint team being set up at Wipro’s campus in Bangalore will develop IPs targeted for products and solutions based on MEMS based smart sensors for emerging market need.

Centers of Excellence (CoE)

The goal of a CoE is to create competencies in emerging areas of technologies and industry domain and incubate new practices for business growth. In order to enhance focus, few technologies are driven centrally as Theme initiatives. For FY 2010-11, the technology themes identified were Cloud Computing, Green IT, Social Computing, Information Management, Mobility, Collaboration and Open Source. Investments in Technology Themes have resulted in creation of several new services like Cloud SI Services, Cloud Originator Services in areas of Mortgage Processing and Green Consulting. We have established partnerships with leading technology platform providers like Microsoft, Cisco, EMC, HP, Oracle, Amazon, Salesforce, etc.

Solution Accelerators

Your Company continued to invest in Reusable IP’s/Solution Accelerators (components, tools, frameworks) which help in accelerating the implementation of Solutions in customer engagements. Your Company has integrated various accelerator assets to create integrated stacks and solution.

Sample examples of integrated stack and solutions and business platforms are the Wipro Cloud Stack, Digital Marketing Platform and Enterprise Grade Smart Meters, Telco in a Box, Oracle based Clinical Trials solutions.

Software Engineering Tools & Methodologies

Your Company continued to invest in in-house development of Software Engineering tools to improve productivity and Quality; Examples include Wipro Style, Wipro Accelerator , Wipro Unit Test and Wipro Code Checker and Deepcheck. These tools have been widely deployed across projects in your Company.

Your Company continued investment in developing an approach for Flex Shared Delivery with innovative solution for effective queue and capacity management for reduced cost.

Your Company has developed an in-house KEDB (Known Error Data Base) Tool that will help in faster ticket resolution in Managed Services projects.

Patents

In FY 2010-11, your Company had filed for 7 new patents and from the previous filings, 6 patents have been granted.

Expenditure on R&D

During the year under review, your company incurred an expenditure of Rs. 1,656 million including capital expenditure in continued development of R& D activities.

Annexure B

DISCLOSURE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CLAUSE 12 OF THE SEBI (EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION SCHEME) AND (EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE SCHEME) GUIDELINES 1999, AS AMENDED

Description WESOP 1999 WESOP 2000 ADS 2000 Stock Option Plan Wipro Restricted Stock Unit Plan 2004 Wipro Restricted Stock Unit Plan 2005 ADS Restricted Stock Unit Plan 2004 Wipro Restricted Stock Unit Plan 2007
1 Total Number of options under the Plan 50,000,000 (Adjusted for the issue of bonus shares in the years 2004, 2005 and 2010) 250,000,000 (Adjusted for the issue of bonus shares in the years 2004, 2005 and 2010) 15,000,000 ADS representing 15,000,000 underlying equity shares (Adjusted for the issue fo bonus shares of the years 2004, 2005 and 2010) 20,000,000 (Adjusted for the issue of bonus shares of the years 2004, 2005 and 2010) 20,000,000 (Adjusted for the issue of bonus shares of the year 2005 and 2010) 20,000,000 ADS representing 20,000,000 underlying equity shares (Adjusted for the issue of bonus shares of the years 2004. 2005 and 2010) 16,666,667 (Adjusted for the issue fo bonus shares of the year 2010
2 Options/RSUs grants approved during the year - - - 1,352,480 3,390,840 84,580 1,837,030
3 Pricing formula Fair market value i.e. the market price as defined by the Securities and Exchange Board of India Fair market value i.e. the market price as defined by the Securities and Exchange Board of India Exercise price being not less than 90% of the market price on the date of grant Face value of the share Face value of the share Face value of the share Face value of the share
4 Options Vested during the year - - - 921,477 5,519,756 1,073,312 -
5 Options exercised during the year 80,000 1,618,092 3,864,118 870,622 -
6 Total number of shares arising as a result of exercise of option (as of March 31, 2011) - 80,000 - 1,618,092 3,864,118 870,622 -
7 Options lapsed/forfeited during the year * - 121,606 - 111,960 646,488 233,715 73,950
8 Variation of terms of options upto March 31, 2011 - - - - - - -
9 Money realised by exercise of options during the year (Rs.) - 23,472,000 - 3,236,185 7,728,235 1,741,244 -
10 Total number of options in options in force at the end of the year (granted, vested and unexercised/unvested and unexercised - - - 3,231,032 10,361,519 3,223,892 1,790,210
11 Employee wise details of options granted to : - - - - - - -
i. Senior Management during the year
a. Suresh Vaswani Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 50,000
b. Girish Paranjpe Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 50,000
c. T K Kurien Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 30,000
d. S Deb Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 18,000
e. Pratik Kumar Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 30,000
f. Vineet Agrawal Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 40,000
g. Martha Bejar Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 16,600 Nil
ii. Employees holding 5% or more of the total number of options granted during the year Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil
iii. Identified employees who were granted option, during any one year, equal to or exceeding 1% of the issued capital (excluding outstanding warrants and conversions) of the Company at the time of grant Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil
12 Diluted Earning per Share pursuant to issue of shares on exercise of option calculated in accordance with Accounting Standard (AS ) 20 19.78 19.78 19.78 19.78 19.78 19.78 19.78
13 Where the Company has calculated the employees compensation cost using the instrinsic value of the stock opitons, the difference between the employee compensation cost so computed and the employee compensation cost that shall have been recognised if it had used the fair vaule of the options. The impact of this difference on Profits and on EPS of the Company Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximates the fair value of options Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximates the fair value of options Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximates the fair value of options Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximates the fair value of options
14 Weighted average exercise prices and weighted average fair values of options separately for options whose exercise price either equals or exceeds or is less than the market prices of the stock Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Exercise price Rs. 2/- per option. Fair value Rs. 480.20/- as on March 31, 2011 Exercise price Rs. 2/- per option. Fair value Rs. 480.20/- as on March 31, 2011 Exercise price Rs. 2/- per option. Fair value $ 14.65/- as on March 31, 2011 Exercise price Rs. 2/- per option. Fair value Rs. 480.20/- as on March 31, 2011
15 A description of method and significant assumptions used durng the year to estimate the fiar values of options, including the following weighted average information: - - - - - - -
(a) risk free interest rate Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Not applicable as there were no grants during the year under this Plan Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximatels the fair value of options Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximatels the fair value of options Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximatels the fair value of options Since these options were granted at a nominal exercise price, intrinsic value on the date of grant approximatels the fair value of options
(b) expected life
(c ) expected volatility
(d) expected dividends and
(e) the price fo the underlying share in market at the time of option grant

* As per the Plan, Options/RSUs lapse only on termination of the Plan. If an Option/RSU, expires or becomes unexercisable without having been exercised in full, such options shall become available for future grant under the Plan.

Annexure C

Particulars of Employees forming part of the Director’s Report for the year ended March 31, 2011 Information pursuant to Section 217(2A)(b)(ii) of the Companies Act, 1956 and the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules,1975.

Name Date of Joining Remuneration Designation Qualification Experience Age Last Employment
(Rs.)
1 Abhijit Bhaduri 01/10/2009 9,078,418 Chief Learning Officer & Head - CHRD MBA 26 51 Microsoft Corp
2 Achuthan Nair 29/04/1991 6,336,844 Vice - President-& Business Head PGDBM, BE 19 44 Hindustan Petroleum
3 Ajoy Menon 21/02/2000 6,072,872 Vice - President B.A, PGDM, 16 39 First Employment
4 Amitava Sharma 17/05/1999 6,054,140 Vice - President MBA, BE 20 42 Pricewaterhouse Coop
5 Anand Sankaran 26/06/1989 9,600,301 Sr. Vice President & Business Head BE 21 42 Pertech Computers
6 Anil Chugh 19/04/1999 8,670,880 Sr.Vice President B.Tech, MMS 20 45 Gillette
7 Anil K Jain 10/04/1989 8,036,391 Sr. Vice President & Business Head- Global Communic BE, MBA 21 46 Org Systems
8 Anurag Behar 20/05/2002 6,568,273 Chief Sustainablity Officer BE, MBA 14 43 Wipro GE Medical Systems
9 Anurag Mehrotra 02/01/2001 6,878,649 Vice President and Head Client Relationship Group BE 24 47 Informix International
10 Ashutosh Vaidya 17/01/1962 9,626,423 Head Wipro BPO BE 24 49 HP GLOBALSOFT LTD
11 Badiga L K 29/10/1990 15,051,737 Chief Information Officer MTech, BE 31 55 Alghmin Communicatin Services, Kuwait
12 Bhanumurthy B M 03/09/1992 12,965,652 Senior Vice President- Retail,CPG& Distribution PGDM, Btech 24 46 CMC
13 Dayapatra Nevatia 15/02/1993 6,961,224 Vice President & Vertical Head-Energy MTech, Btech 17 41 First Employment
14 Deepak Jain 21/03/1986 8,400,529 Senior Vice President & Global Head - TIS BE 24 45 Raba Contel .P. Ltd/
15 Dr.Anurag Srivastava 15/12/2000 6,604,122 Chief Technology Officer BTech, MTech, PHD 19 43 Evizeon
16 Gangadharaiah C P 16/02/1995 10,118,669 Senior Vice President-Testing Services BE, ME, M.Sc. 33 57 ITI Ltd.
17 Hariprasad Hegde 01/01/2005 6,267,522 VP and BU Head - Wipro Water PG Diploma, BTech, B.SC. 27 50 Satyam Computer Services Limited
18 Harish J Shah 18/02/1991 12,242,812 Sr VP and Global Operations Head Others, ICWA, B COM 30 53 National Textiles Corpn Ltd.,
19 Harsh Bhatia 14/01/1966 6,834,109 Vice President B.SC., SSC, 23 45 DakSH
20 Harsha Lal 08/01/2007 7,263,585 Vice President- Business Head - Microsoft BTech, PGDM 23 49 Sun Microsystems Inc
21 Hoshedar Contractor 01/02/1961 7,508,060 Vertical Head B Com 22 50 KLM/NW Airlines
22 Jagdish Ramaswamy 28/02/2003 7,944,667 Chief Quality Officer BE, Diploma 25 46 Tyco Health Care
23 Kenny Kesar 27/12/2006 6,877,467 Vice - President- Information Systems BE 19 41 GE Healthcare
24 Keyur Maniar 16/02/1970 6,217,259 Vertical Head BE , MBA, Diploma 16 41 Capital One Financial
25 Kumudha Sridharan 31/05/1995 6,812,424 Vice - President- Testing Services BE 24 46 ITI Ltd.
26 Lakshminarayana K R 03/07/1995 10,784,363 Chief Strategy Officer-IT Business B COM,ICWA,PGD 14 43 First Employment
27 Madhavan S 15/09/1994 8,949,092 Vice - President- Solution Definition BTech,B.SC. 23 46 Cmc
28 Madhu Khatri 15/03/2005 14,300,231 Senior Vice President & General Counsel LLB,B.A,LLM 21 46 General Electric
29 Manish Dugar 01/04/2002 9,648,978 Senior Vice President C A ,ICS ACCOUNTS MBA 15 38 Reckitt Benckiser
30 Moiz H Vaswadawala 06/03/1993 6,112,685 General Manager and Business Head - Datacenter and Diploma 21 44 Tamimi Adv/ Technolo
31 Nagamani Murthy 01/07/1991 7,563,872 Vice - President-PES BE 25 49 Texas Instruments
32 Padmanabha K N 01/08/1982 6,342,632 Vice President - Truck Hydraulics MTech, BE,PUC 34 59 Bharath Electronics ltd. Bangalore
33 Pavan Kumar Goyal 04/01/1991 7,210,006 Vice - President- Technology Vertical M.BA.,B.SC. 21 44 First Employment
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Notes:

1. Remuneration comprises of salary, commission, peformance based paymets, allowance, medical, perquisite and company’s contribution to PF and superannuation.

2. Rishad Pemji is a relative of the Chairman and Managing Dircector as per the definition of "relative" under the Companies Act, 1956.

3. The nature of employment is contractual in all the above cases.

4. In terms of the Notification dated March 31, 2011 dated by Ministry of Corporate Affairs, employees posted and working in a country outside India, not being Directors or their relatives have not been included in the above statement.

5. None of the employees except the Chairman holds 2% or more of the paid up equity share capital of the Company.