SMG Rational Final
SMG Rational Final
SMG Rational Final
Present Proposal:
Takeover of TL from Abhyudaya Co-Operative bank ltd under multiple banking arrangement with second
lender (to be identified)
Total TL O/s – 457.9 Mn residual tenor – 55 months.
Borrower has requested to make it consortium arrangement, same shall be decided post sanction from second
lender
Number of education institutes including Schools, Engineering Colleges, Architecture College, Medical
Colleges and Management Colleges are part of this group.
Apart from educational institutions, group has also diversified into IT, Healthcare and Construction
industries.
Group firms:
Educational Institutions:
Meghe Group of Schools (School of Scholars)
Vimalatai Tidke Convent & Junior College
Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering & Research
Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Engineering & Research
Datta Meghe Institute of Engg. Tech. & Research
Shri Datta Meghe Polytechnic
Shri Datta Meghe College of Architecture
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College
Sharad Pawar Dental College and Hospital
Ravi Nair Physiotherapy Colleg
Smt. Radhikabai Meghe Memorial College of Nursing
Mahatma Gandhi College Ayurveda and Research
Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural Hospital
The Florence Nightingale Training College of Nursing
Datta Meghe Institute of Management Studies
Department of Management, DMIETR
Information Technology
Ceinsys Tech Ltd – Geospatial services, Enterprise & Engineering and mobility services.
ADCC Academy Pvt Ltd- IT and Website services
Healthcare
SMG Hospital Pvt Ltd-Super Specialty Hospital with 200+ bed capacity at Nagpur
SMD Hospitals Pvt Ltd- Super Specialty Hospital with 300+ bed capacity at Nagpur
Construction
Raghav Infra Developers and Builders Private Limited – Real Estate -Infra
AI Instruments Private Limited – EPC – Electrical contractor
Others
Sincare Management Services Pvt Ltd- Accommodation Services and Hostel Services
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Political Background: Meghe family has been actively involved in politics since last 3 decades.
Meghe family were associated with INC until 2014 and are presently associated with BJP.
Mr. Datta Meghe been member of Lok Sabha 4 times when he was associated with Congress. At
present, he does not hold any position.
Mr. Sagar Datta Meghe fought last election in 2014 when he was in INC for MP Wardha Constituency
but he could not win. At present, he does not hold any position.
Mr. Sameer Datta Meghe: He is MLA representing Hingna Constituency since 2019 represents BJP.
Apart from these, in May’21 firm signed a rental agreement with SMS Ltd for supply of 9 CAT AD 63
underground mining trucks. Total cost of purchase of these machineries was 1000 Mn against which company
availed TL of Rs. 630 Mn
Mining equipment were imported from Singapore with supplier being M/s GMMCO Singapore Pte Ltd.
Lessee, SMS Limited, has deployed these machinery at copper mining site of HCL - Malanjkhand Copper
Project, Balaghat Madhya Pradesh. Total project cost is 15738.1 Mn awarded in Nov’19. By Mar’23, 24% of
the project was completed.
Parameter Terms
Agreement Notarized agreement executed on 1st May 2021.
Execution date and
type
Lease Term 7 years from date of successful commissioning and installation of equipment
Lease Rent Rs 25.96 Mn inclusive of taxes. (Rent; Rs 22 Mn + GST; 3.96 Mn).
DSRA 3 months lease rental to be created within 9 months from signing of agreement or 1 st
EMI, which is later. This shall be with SMG Realities.
Delay payments of Interest on delay payment of Rent: 1.5% p.m
Rentals
Termination of If lessee terminates lease prior to expiry period then lessee is liable to pay rent
lease together with interest, penalties, damages and all such amount due for that many
years remaining along with casualty value
Buy Back of Lessee has to buyback the equipment without any option at end of lease term at price
Equipment’s of Rs 200 Mn i.e. 20% of original purchase price of equipment
Insurance and To be borne by lessee
Repairs
Lessor and Lessee through mutual consent have revised agreement in Feb-24 with certain change as illustrated
below with other terms remaining the same:
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Parameter Terms
Lease Term 3 years from date of successful commissioning and installation of equipment
Lease End Term 30th Nov 2025
Lease Rent Rs 26.84 Mn inclusive of taxes. (Rent; Rs 20.97 Mn + GST; 5.87 Mn).
Buy Back of Lessee has to buyback the equipment without any option at end of lease term at price
Equipment’s of Rs 521.35 Mn + taxes.
Out of which advance already paid is Rs. 379.83 Mn balance will be paid over the
period of 36 months with monthly payment of Rs.3.93 Mn.
The company’s clientele includes Bharat Electronics, Coal India, and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, NHAI,
PWD, Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL), South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) and Indian Railways
Construction Company.
Financials:
Rs MM
For year ended/ ending March 31 2021 2022 2023
Audited
Total operating income 14,889.94 17,667.75 21413.74
EBIDTA 5,768.08 5,603.47 5966.04
PBT 1,451.15 1,778.27 2396.65
PAT 1,257.89 1,482.06 2084.47
Equity 8,678.54 9,333.29 10978.02
Long Term Borrowings 8,660.33 7,933.29 7201.75
Short Term Borrowings 7,474.68 7,070.21 7268.59
Political connection:
The company is promoted by Sancheti family of Nagpur. Mr. Ajaykumar Sancheti, key person of the group
was former member of Rajya Sabha for the period 2012 to 2018 and was affiliated with BJP.
Note: Recently there has been change in shareholding wherein Mr. Sagar Meghe shareholding has increased
from 28.76 % to 77.76%. This arrangement was done through Gift deed wherein Mr. Sameer Meghe, Mrs.
Virnda Sameer Meghe and Mrs. Shalimitai Datta Meghe has transferred shares to Mr. Sagar Meghe.
Security Details:
A – Primary security: (Rs million)
Particulars Type of Charge Value Remarks
Charge on Current Assets Pari – Passu 4.96 Mn FY23 (A)
Hypothecation on Mining Equipment’s Pari–Passu 100 Mn As per Master Agreement
Turnover:
Rental bi-furcation.
Rentals FY21 FY 22 FY 23 FY 24 FY 25
Bus & Car 66.90 73.46 79.57 60.85 70.59
Equipment - - 83.90 251.64 251.64
Total 66.90 73.46 163.47 312.49 322.23
Profitability:
EBIDTA margins are increasing year on year with increase in scale of operations.
In FY 21, concern was in operating loss as depreciation on Goodwill was availed. From FY 22
onwards concern is in operating profit.
Non-operating income relates to Rental income, Shop revenue share and other interest income.
Exponential increase is projected in EBIDTA and PAT margin in FY24 due to 1) Full rental received
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in FY24 for Heavy Machinery/Equipment 2) As per agreement maintenance and insurance cost to be
borne by SMS Ltd (Lessee).
Advance tax of 4.5 Mn paid till Dec in line with tax projected in Fy’24.
Deprecation
Low PAT even after substantial increase in EBIDTA is mainly due to high depreciation expense of
the new machinery leased to SMS.
Low deprecations expense reported in FY’23 since machinery were put to use in Dec’23.
Deprecation for entire year considered for FY’24. Depreciation considered at 20%
Group company where major advances given are- SMG Hospitals (150.9), Raghav Infra (41.6)
TL was availed for purchase of machinery leased to SMS ltd. TL of Rs.445 Mn was availed in Oct-21 and balance
184.6 Mn TL was availed in Aug-22 to Dec-22.
NCL-
Particulars FY22 FY23
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Intercorporate deposits replaced by security deposit provided by SMS Ltd against the machineries rented.
OCA
OCA Details FY 22 FY 23
GMMCO Supplier of Machinery 659.5 -
Other advances, Taxes and Prepaid expenses 52.7 207.6 #
712.2 207.6
Major amount of Rs 207.6 Mn includes GST receivable of Rs 178.74 Mn and Nexen Car Rentals Rs 19.6 Mn
(Total=196.34 Mn) balance amount includes TDS receivable, prepaid insurance, advance for petro card etc.
NCA
NCA Details FY 22 FY 23
Investment and Advances to Group Cos 150.9 192.5
Other investments 4.1 4.1
155.0 196.6
DSCR
Lease agreement considers two components monthly rental and salvage value. Monthly rental form part of
P&L and salvage value is provision towards purchase of machinery at the end of lease period.
As per terms of contract, no regular schedule for salvage value is provided however, same is received on
monthly basis regularly and has been verified from bank statement for last 12 months.
Contingent Liabilities: As per financial statement for FY 23, no contingent liability reported.
Banking Conduct:
SN Observations Abhyudaya Co-operative Tiripati Urban Co-operative
Bank Ltd- Current Account Bank Ltd- Current Account
1 Churning (direct/Indirect) 355.47 308.79
1A Routing % 53.51% 46.49%
2 Average utilization for WC NA as account is current NA as account is current
limits (Including sub limit)*
last 12 months
3 Inward cheque return as % of Nil Nil only 2 INW return out of
cheque issue 1524, which are because of
NEFT/RTGS return.
4 Outward cheque return as % Nil 22.22%
of cheque received Out of 9 chq received 2 chq were
bounced because of tech issues.
Major transactions is through
online/NEFT/RTGS only.
5 Overdrawing (No. of times) / NA NA
other irregularities
6 Delay in Interest servicing NA NA
7 Penal Charges if any Nil Nil
8 TL Servicing Regular NA
9 LC/BG conduct NA NA
10 a SMA 0 reporting in last 12 No No
months (Count)
10 b SMA 1 reporting in last 12
months (Count)
10 c SMA 2 reporting in last 12
months (Count)
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Particular Nov- Oct- Aug- Jul- Jun- May- Apr- Mar- Feb- Jan- Tota
Dec-23 Sep-23
s 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 l
MOM
Sales 28 21 27 24 24 23 27 21 0 26 43 263
Banking 72 35 70 36 37 39 40 148 50 26 65 46 664
Notes:
CA maintained with Tirupati Urban Co-operative Bank is used for receiving bus and car rentals.
CA maintained with Abhyudaya Co-operative Bank is used for receiving Lease rentals from SMS
Limited, Salvage value and buy back amount of equipment.
Churning is higher than sales due to salvage value received.
GST on machineries purchased is already paid off and GST receivable of Rs.178.7 Mn is visible in balance
sheet. Thus no outflow for GST in future.
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B. Con’s
Con’s - Mitigate (including proposed condition if any)
Collateral: Customer has requested for release of 1 commercial property being used
Release of Collateral. as girls hostel in Wardha. The value of the collateral is Rs 120.00 Mn. The
Cover of 52.13% same is being replaced by commercial property worth Rs. 170.0 Mn.
Commercial property offered is situated at Prime Location and is currently
being rented to SBI. This property is owned by Radhika Meghe Singh
(Daughter of Sagar Meghe. Since daughter is married property being
treated as 3rd party.
Original limits sanctioned by existing bank (Abhuday Co-Op) was Rs.630
Mn which has run down to 457 Mn as on date.
Release of PG PG of Mr. Sagar Meghe and his daughter Mrs. Radhika Meghe is offered
in the deal.
PG of Devika, Sameer and other member was taken as they were security
providers. With release of property, their PG is proposed to be released.
Shareholding of Sagar Meghe is 78%.
Continuation of CA with Customer routes bus rentals from Tirupati Urban Co-bank since inception.
Tirupati Urban Co-op Even with sanction of TL, customer is only routing machinery lease
Bank and part routing of payments received from SMS through Abhuday and balance continues
churn through that with Tirupati Urban.
account. Customer is reluctant to close the CA.
CPG view:
We should recommend PDC from Tirupati Urban as additional security
with us.
Credits from SMS ltd towards machinery lease is sufficient to repay our
TL obligation and hence recommended.
Revised Agreement is not Earlier agreement for period 7 years is validated. Customer has revised the
notarized or registered. agreement for period of 3 years, whose draft is provided to us but the
agreement is not registered or notarized.
Lessor has already started payment as per revised agreement.
Final agreement shall be vetted by CPG before disbursement.
Credit view:
The said agreement should be registered, previous agreement was notrorized.
Political Connection for Lesser – SMG Realties Pvt Ltd is promoted by Meghe Family
lesser and lessee- Borrower’s real brother is exiting MLA from Hingna Constituency in
Nagpur represents BJP
Borrower’s father was also in politics and was MLA earlier and was
representing Congress till 2014.
Borrowing entity is run by Sagar Meghe who is not into active politics as
on date.
HDFC and SBI are already one of the lenders in group companies
promoted by Sagar Meghe.
We have taken exposure on one of the group company of SMS i.e Ponda
Envocare Ltd of Rs 200 Mn and track is ETR.
Recommendation: Recommended for approval subject to following:
Since terms with multiple / consortium banker – TBI bank are not finalized yet, the terms to be
vetted by Credit team and our terms should be better or in line with them.
PDC and tripartite agreement to be obtained from SMS Limited.
Insurance: Insurance on Machinery/Equipment to be assigned in favor of I-Bank & TBI lender
Proportionate rental to be received in I-Bank
Lease agreement to be registered.
Due to stamp duty charges for registration of lease agreement, business has asked to stipulate for notarized
agreement only and they would explore for registered agreement on best effort basis.
Existing: Two auto loans amounting to Rs. 2.46 Mn and Rs. 1.89 Mn.
Proposed: SA and Credit Card of Mr. Sagar Meghe.