India’s Top 500 Companies 2022

INDIA’S TOP 500 COMPANIES 2022 47 Experts’ View How would you summarise your company’s journey since inception/What are some of the key milestones of the company in recent years? The company established in 1978, as a partnership firm as Nagarjuna Construction Corporation and converted into a limited company Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited in 1990, NCC has progressed consistently over past four decades. Today we are among the top construction companies in India in terms of revenue. NCC was born from a vision to provide world class construction solutions with focus on quality, timely completion, customer satisfaction, continuous learning and enhancement of stakeholders value. NCC undertakes civil construction in segments such as buildings & housing, roads, electrical, water & environment, irrigation, railways, power, metals and mining. SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES 1992 : Initial Public Offering (Listing on BSE) 1995 : Turnover crosses INR 100 Crore 2003 : Completed 25 years in Nation Building 2010 : Dr. AVS Raju was awarded the PADMASHRI 2011 : Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited was Re-branded as NCC Limited 2014 : NCC rights issue for INR 600 Crores 2016 : Construction Industry Development Council awarded NCC as follows: • Vishwakarma Award • Industry Doyen Award for Shri AAV Ranga Raju, MD NCC LIMITED Shri A Ranga Raju Managing Director • Best Professionally Managed Company • Best Construction Project - ESIC, Gulbarga 2018 : QIP issue for INR 550 crores 2019 : Turnover crossed INR 10,000 Crore What are some key ESG initiatives taken by your company in recent years? What impact did it have on the society? At NCC we are strongly committed to employee well-being. Topping our priority is employee safety at project sites and workplaces. Also, irrespective of the place and domain of our operations, NCC is committed to conducting all its activities in a systematic and safe manner without harming the environment. NCC has a QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH & SAFETY (QEHS) POLICY in place as follows. NCC Limited strives to achieve enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering quality product and timely completion with safe working environment. We are committed to prevent Environmental Pollution and Ill-health & injury to our employees, contractors and visitors, associated with all our activities and services. We dedicate ourselves for continual improvement in all fields of our business and sustain QEHS through: • Consistently delivering quality product by adhering to set specifications, contractual, regulatory and statutory requirements. • Motivating and training the staff for continual improvement of QEHS standards. • Updating and implementing the procedures complying with international standards in QEHS. • Proactively identifying and addressing Risks and Opportunities related to business. • Complying with applicable QEHS legal and other requirements. • Dissemination of this QEHS policy through effective communication to personnel working for and on behalf of NCC and be made available to other interested parties as required. How does the company’s order book look like? What is the company’s growth strategy over the next 3 -5 years? The company has very strong order book consisting of varied orders and mix of central, state, PSU orders. The order book as on 31st March 2022 was ` 39.361 Cr. Major orders are of our Building division. The company secured orders worth ` 12,158 Cr during FY22 including changes in scope of works under execution. Order inflow is consistent in the last four years. Order inflow and revenue growth will be in line with annual plan of the company. As Central & State Governments are giving lot of thrust to developing physical infrastructure in the country as the way to revive economy, the company is confident of maintaining decent order book over next 3-5 years. Dun & Bradstreet