United Phosphorus Ltd has informed BSE that an Extra Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the members of the Company will be held on April 28, 2008, inter alia, to transact the following business:
1. To alter the Articles of Association of the Company by adding the following at the end of Article 4:-
“Subject to the provisions of Section 81 of the Act and other applicable law the Company may Issue options to the whole-time directors, officers or employees of the Company, its subsidiaries or its parent, which would give such directors, officers or employees the benefit or right to purchase or subscribe a future date the subscribes offered by the Company at a pre-determined price in terms of schemes of employee stock options or employee stock purchase or both”
2. To grant, issue, offer and allot at any time or from time to time directly or through a trust to the present and future employee(s) including Director(s) of the Company, including employees of its subsidiaries as mentioned in the proposed resolution at item 3 below and as selected on the basis of criteria prescribed by the Board in accordance with the SEBI Guidelines, “the Eligible Employees”, except a promoter or a person who belongs to the Promoter group, both these expressions being defined in the SEBI Guidelines and director who directly or indirectly holds more than 10% of the issued capital, under a scheme titled “Employees Stock Option Plan 2008″ (Plan) such number of options as the Board may decide, which could give rise the issue of equity shares of the nominal face value not exceeding Re 30,00,000 (Rupees Thirty lakhs only) divided into 15,00,000 (Fifteen lakhs) equity shares of the face value of Rs 2/- each, on such terms & conditions.
3. To create issue, offer and allot at anytime or from time to time directly or through a trust to ‘Subsidiary Employees’ (which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context, mean and include the permanent Employees of the subsidiaries of the Company and the Directors of the subsidiaries of the Company whether whole-time or not) as may be decided solely by the Board, such number of options in one or more tranches and upon such terms and conditions as may be deemed appropriate by the Board, within the overall limit of 15,00,000 options as mentioned in the proposed resolution at item 2 above each option giving the right but not the obligation, to the holder, to subscribe for cash, to one fully paid equity share of Rs 2 each of the Company, in terms of the United Phosphorus Ltd Employees Stock Option Plan, 2008 (’Plan’) (as put up for approval in terms of the preceding Resolution).
The offer shall be to Subsidiary Employees of such subsidiaries of the Company as the Board at its discretion, may from time to time decide (?Selected Subsidiaries?) and shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions as regards price, payment, application, allotment etc. stipulated by the SEBI Guidelines to the extent applicable and in accordance with any other guidelines, rules, regulations and laws to the extent applicable and subject also to the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company and the subsidiaries of the Company.