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Indian Economic Overview

The war in Ukraine has triggered a costly humanitarian crisis that demands a peaceful resolution. At the same time, economic damage from the con lict will contribute to a signi icant slowdown in global growth in 2022 and add to in lation. Fuel and food prices have increased rapidly, hitting vulnerable populations in low-income countries hardest. Global growth is projected to slow from an estimated 6.1 percent in 2021 to 3.6 percent in 2022 and 2023. This is 0.8 and 0.2 percentage points lower for 2022 and 2023 than projected in January. Beyond 2023, global growth is forecast to decline to about 3.3 percent over the medium term. War-induced commodity price increases and broadening price pressures have led to 2022 in lation projections of 5.7 percent in advanced economies and 8.7 percent in emerging market and developing economies 1.8 and 2.8 percentage points higher than projected last January. Multilateral efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis, prevent further economic fragmentation, maintain global liquidity, manage debt distress, tackle climate change, and end the pandemic are essential.

· India has emerged as the fastest-growing major economy in the world and is expected to be one of the top three economic powers in the world over the next 10-15 years, backed by its robust democracy and strong partnerships.

· This year Indias nominal gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices is estimated to be at Rs. 232.15 trillion (US$ 3.12 trillion) in FY22 and India is the third-largest unicorn base in the world with over 100 unicorns with a total valuation of US$ 332.7 billion.

· According to McKinsey Global Institute, India needs to increase its rate of employment growth and create 90 million non-farm jobs between 2023 and 2030s, for productivity and economic growth. The net employment rate needs to grow by 1.5% per year from 2023 to 2030 to achieve 8-8.5% GDP growth between 2023 and 2030.

· According to data from the Department of Economic A airs, as of January 28, 2022, foreign exchange reserves in India reached the US$ 634.287 billion mark.

This year, Indias annual merchandise exports have hit $400 billion for the _irst time, achieving the target set by the government 9 days ahead of schedule. The milestone comes even as Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal warned that the Russia-Ukraine war could lead to some disruption in trade.

ROBUST DEMAND

*India is the export hub for software services. The Indian IT outsourcing service market is expected to witness growth between 2021 and 2024.

*Indias IT and business services market is projected to reach US$ 19.93 billion by 2025.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

*In September 2021, India moved up two spots to 46 in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2021, due to successful advancements in services that are technologically dynamic and can be traded internationally.

POLICY SUPPORT

*Government is promoting necessary services and will charge zero tax for education and health services under the GST regime.

*In October 2021, the government announced a new helicopter policy to build dedicated hubs and corridors, the policy will boost helicopter services in the country.

INCREASING INVESTMENTS

*The Indian services sector was the largest recipient of FDI in lows worth US$ 92.41 billion between April 2000-December 2021.

E-Governance Industry Overview

India has been consistently improvising its e-governance capabilities, and now, state governments, universities, service providers, app developers, and scientists are also working on improving the access to e-governance and are increasing the acceptability among Indians.

The latest UN e-Government Survey rankings have placed India at the 100 rank out of 193 countries for the year 2020. India has transformed the middle to the high-EDGI (e-Government Development Index) level group, "re lecting improved online presence regulated by strategies linking digital policies to national development." Indias EDGI score is 0.5964 in the year 2020. Indias E-Participation Index Rank is 29 and the E-Participation Index Value is 0.8571 for the year 2020.

Business Outlook

Alankit Limited is focused on its vision and committed to ful illing its mission through ensuring consistent delivery of quality products, unsurpassed service, and premium value to its esteemed customers. It also aims to work diligently as a team with high standards of integrity, across borders as well as emerge a winner in the marketplace in all aspects of its business.

Vision and Mission

Our Vision

"To be a unique and quality service provider in the sectors we serve."

Our Mission

"To become a customer-centric organization with a focus on building trust by our unmatched standards."

We will achieve this by:

· Delivering quality products, unsurpassed service, and premium value; · Working together as a team, with high standards of integrity across borders; · Winning in the marketplace in all aspects of our business.

Industry Structure and Developments

Your company is mainly in e-Governance Services and e-Governance Products in both State and Central Government under various schemes promoting public/private participation to promote E-Governance in the country. Meanwhile, your company has rich experience in providing and implementing various e-Governance Projects which will be able to help your company in managing and implementing various projects.

Company Overview

The Company is mainly in the business of e-Governance and e-Governance products. Your company is the fastest-growing player in the e-Governance Sector and believes in providing quality information, delivering a high standard of service, encouraging new advanced technology, thus making the system more accountable, transparent, and effective for the clients. Intending to reach out to the masses with increased credibility & accountability in its services, your companys e-Governance Business has developed a proven track record through the successful completion of several e-Governance Projects. Brief details about the companys products are discussed below:

PAN Centres

The Government of India is making it mandatory for Indian citizens to have a PAN Card. It is compulsory to mention PAN in all financial transactions above a certain prescribed limit. As per the information provided by the Government, against a total population of 1.31 Bn, the number of AADHAAR assigned was 1.17 Bn, translating into 89.2% penetration.

Alankit acts as the uni ied platform for all services related to the PAN Card application and all other procedures, whatsoever. Permanent Account Number (PAN), is the Alpha-numeric ten-digit number issued in the form of a laminated card by the Income Tax Department in India and is counts as one of the most important documents being the unique identi ication number allotted to each taxpayer of the country.

Currently, your company has a pan India network of 6119 PAN Centers. With the advent of GST, our target is to double our presence in near future.

Business Correspondent (BC)

Business Correspondents are retail agents who represent banks and are responsible for delivering banking services at locations other than a bank branch/ATM. BCs support banks in providing its limited range of banking services at a ordable cost. Thus, they are pivotal in promoting financial inclusion. According to the RBIs mandate, the products offered by BCs include Small Savings Accounts, Fixed Deposit, and Recurring Deposit with low minimum deposits, Remittance to any BC customer, Micro Credit, and General Insurance. The BC model helps banks in bringing door-step delivery of services especially cash in - cash out transactions in areas that are nearer to the rural population, thus resolving the issue of last-mile delivery.

Your company has ventured into the Business Correspondent segment since 2015 and has joined hands with 6 nationalised banks such as State Bank of India, IDBI Bank, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, Central Bank of India and Union Bank of India to provide services as Business Correspondent to them. The BC arrangement essentially means enrolling customers and enabling the transactions of the customers at the Customer Service Point (CSPs) besides sourcing various deposit and loan products for the Bank as a business facilitator.

Your Company is a representative(s) appointed by the bank to act as their agent and provide banking services in a remote location where the bank does not have a presence to promote Financial Inclusion.

Our major focus is enrolling CSP from Rural Areas along with our other e-Government products, which enhances their viability & sustainability in a shorter period, juxtaposed to our competitors.

Your company has recently signed up the National BC agreement with Bank of Baroda also and is in process of signing with some other banks including payment banks.

With GOIs focus on cash-less transactions and the launch of the AADHAR Payment scheme, we foresee a huge business potential for your Company as a National BC.

FASTag Services

FASTag

FASTag is an RFID tag that enables the automatic deduction of toll payments at NHAI toll plazas and more than 100 selected state toll plazas. Af ixed on the windscreen of a vehicle, FASTag lets you pass through the toll plaza without having to stop for cash transactions.

Alankits for FASTag Services

Alankit has tied up with IDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Axis Bank for its FASTag program which is a part of the National Toll Collection (NETC) initiative rolled out by NPCI. This program is being implemented by IHMCL and NPCI and is currently functional at 200+ Pan India locations with the possibility of adding many more toll plazas in the future.

· Facilitates easy & quick issuance of the tags

· Easy, cashless payments from the FASTag-linked accounts

· Ensures ef_iciency, transparency, and reliability

· Technology-driven infrastructure

Services available with Various Platforms: Banks:

a. Kotak Mahindra Bank

b. Axis Bank

c. IDFC Bank eCommerce Platforms:

· Amazon India · Flipkart

Serving 200+ Location Pan India

Manpower Staf ing

Under this Division your company is emerging as a fast-growing service provider to serve Government, Private, PSU, and Autonomous bodies in the _ield of various business services like Data Management Solutions, Manpower Outsourcing, Data Entry Projects, Data Processing, Data Conversion, Scanning Digitization, e-Return & e-TDS & Smart ID Card Printing.

Your company has been able to establish a reputation for excellence and reliability among our associates/customers which inter-alia includes departments like Directorate of Income Tax (Ministry of Finance), Ministry of Chemical & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Forest & Environment, Ministry of Textiles, DRDO, All India Radio, Prasar Bharati, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, and Ministry of Tribal A airs.

GST Suvidha Provider

GSP (GST Suvidha Provider) is an exclusive entity that is authorized to facilitate a platform to enable the countrys taxpayer population to do the GST compliances. As a top GST Suvidha Provider (GSP), Alankit displays superior standards in extending services to the taxpayer populace for complying with the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime and ensures ease & convenience for all the stakeholders in the GST Rollout. The company brings the desired support through the web or mobile-based interfaces and serves as a single-stop shop for all GST compliance-related services.

To ensure a smooth implementation process, Alankit has introduced two GST solutions- Alankit GST Muneemji, a secure cloud-based solution for all GST compliance, and Alankit GST Saarthi- a PoS device introduced for smaller and unorganized businesses for the purpose of payment and business accounting which is GST compliant. Furthermore, the company has also introduced _irst-of-its-kind e-Way Bill Generation Software, e-Raahi for the easy and instant creation of e-Way Bills in a hassle-free and a ordable manner.

Smart Card

In keeping with the major demand in the system for plastic cards, Alankit, the national distributor, provides instant printing solutions for plastic ID Cards. The company offers the distribution of millions of multiple card types like voter ID cards, Aadhaar cards, and Health Cards and also has accomplished a tremendous sale of printers over the number of financial years in the past. Your company strives to work ef iciently by ensuring customer data safety and error-free printing with the focused use of advanced technology with strong security authentication features and guaranteed time-bound supply.

Digital Signatures

A digital signature is a mathematical technique used to validate the authenticity and integrity of a message, software, or digital document. The digital equivalent of a handwritten signature or stamped seal, a digital signature offers far more inherent security, and it is intended to solve the problem of tampering and impersonation in digital communications.

According to the Digital Signature Market information Report, the global digital signature market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 30.5% throughout 2018-2024. Factors that in luence the growth of this segment are the ever-increasing need of verifying digital documents such as patient consents, court documents, cash management documents, policies, claims, and many more of the likes.

Atal Pension Yojana

Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is an initiative of the Government of India to convert a pension-less society into pensioned society. The objective of APY is to encourage people to save small amounts during their productive years which will enable them to draw a pension in old age. APY is based on de ined bene its for providing minimum guaranteed pension ranging from Rs. 1000 to Rs. 5000 p.m.

Recent Developments

Alankit Limited has been empanelled as Service Provider for processing of Ayushman Bharat Card Request with National Health Authority, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.

Further, the Company has been shortlisted as a National Business Correspondent (BC) by the Union Bank of India for financial inclusion.

Your company has recently been awarded Letter of Intent for Supply, Installation and Implementation of Instant Debit Card Printers by UCO Bank.

E-Sign Service Provider

The subsidiary of the Company Verasys Technologies Private Limited ("Vsign") which is Certifying Authority under Section 21 of the IT Act, 2000, is now also empanelled as e-Sign Service Provider (ESP) to provide e-Sign Service based on Aadhar which is a substantial move for the Company.

Products/ Services offered by Vsign

1) E-Sign

For a document to be signed digitally, we need to possess a Digital Signature Certi icate from the Central Authorities of the country. One of the notable features of eSign is that it can be done anywhere, anytime without much hassle with the use of OTP. It makes use of digital signature technology which is used to sign a said document.

2) Paperless DSC

A digital signature certi icate is an electronic form of a signature that can be used to validate the identity of the signer. It ensures that the original content of the message or document has remained intact during transit. Paperless Digital Signature is easily transportable and cannot be imitated by someone else. The paperless digital signature can be issued by authenticating an individual via Aadhaar e-KYC. Any individual whose Aadhaar Card is linked with the mobile number can procure paperless digital signatures.

3) PDF Signer

Vsigner is a desktop-based application that allows users to sign single or bulk PDF documents using Digital Signature Certi icates (DSC tokens). It works with a DSC token issued by any Certifying Authority in India. Vsigner also enables the user to mail digitally signed documents in a faster and more secure way.

4) Encryption decryption software

By using PKI infrastructure, we can encrypt and decrypt our data.

Risk Concern

Your Companys risk management structure works on identifying with the distinguishing proof, investigation, assessment, treatment, moderation, and observing of the vital, operational, and legal, and consistent threats to accomplish its key business goals. At Alankit, Risk Management is used to limit the hostile effects of such threats thus empowering the company to review and improve the risk involved successfully. The focal point of the management executives is to identify risks and look for relief measures. This is done through intermittent audit gatherings of the administration.

Human Resource

Your Company _irmly believes that the personal development of individual employees contributes to the stable and sustainable growth of the company as a whole. The companys HR strategy is focused on attracting the best talent, reskilling and transforming the workforce, and providing a stimulating and filexible work environment, nurtures social contracts, fosters innovation, and builds a result-oriented, high-performance culture.

Your Company encourages employees to utilize their strengths and provides opportunities for them to use their skills and to develop their abilities. Our employees are the foundation of our success, and we believe in sharing our success with them. We reward their outstanding work in many ways, like providing competitive pay, giving instant rewards and recognition for path-breaking contributions.