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                Communication to Shareholders:                       Transfer to Investor Education and Protection
                                                                   Fund (IEPF):
                •   Unclaimed shares/dividend:  In addition to the      (i)   Transfer of unclaimed dividend
                    statutory requirement, a voluntary reminder for
                    unclaimed shares/dividends is also sent to the           Members are hereby informed that under the Act, the
                    shareholders as per records every year.            Company is required to transfer the dividend which
                                                                       remains unpaid or unclaimed for a period of seven
                •   Steps to capture email address of the shareholders:   consecutive years or more to the credit of the Investor
                    In order to capture email addresses of a larger    Education and Protection Fund (‘the IEPF’). In view
                    shareholder base and send all intimations electronically,   of the same, dividend of  `  1,74,61,240 pertaining to
                    especially during the lockdown period, the Company   FY 2012-13 which remained unpaid or unclaimed was
                    appointed National Securities Depository Limited   transferred to the IEPF Authority on October 14, 2020.
                    ('NSDL') and Central Depository Services (India) Limited
                    ('CDSL')  to  send  SMS  to  those  shareholders  whose           Members  are  requested  to  note  the  following  due
                    email addresses were not registered with the Company.  date(s) for claiming the unpaid or unclaimed dividend
                                                                       declared by the Company for FY 2013-14 and
                •   Registration of e-mail address for the limited     thereafter–
                    purpose of receiving Annual  Report and
                    e-Voting at the AGM:  The  Company  made  special   Financial Date of  Dividend Last date for
                    arrangements with the help of its Registrar & Transfer   Year  Declaration  per share claiming unpaid
                    Agent for registration of e-mail  addresses  of those                     (`) dividend(s)
                    Members whose email addresses were not registered   2013-14  August 21, 2014  10 September 20, 2021
                    and who wished to receive the Notice of AGM        2014-15  August 11, 2015  12.50 September 10, 2022
                    along  with  the  Annual  Report  including  e-Voting   2015-16  August 11, 2016  10 September 10, 2023
                    credentials electronically.                        2016-17  August 9, 2017  11 September 8, 2024
                                                                       2017-18  July 25, 2018  22 August 24, 2025
                •   Updation  of bank  account and other  details for   2018-19  July 8, 2019  12.50 August 7, 2026
                    dividend payment and TDS: The Company voluntarily
                    sent a communication to all those shareholders whose   2019-20  July 7, 2020  11 August 6, 2027
                    email  addresses  were  registered  with  the  Company           Members who have not encashed the dividend
                    regarding tax on dividend requesting them to update   warrants so far in respect of the aforesaid period(s)
                    their bank account details and other detailed process.  are requested to make their claim to  TSR Darashaw
                                                                       Consultants Private Limited, RTA well in advance of the
                •   Conversion of holdings in dematerialised form:     above due dates.
                    The Company also voluntarily sent communication
                    to corporate shareholders encouraging them to      As  per  the  Investor  Education  and  Protection  Fund
                    dematerialise their shareholding in the Company.   Authority (Accounting, Audit,  Transfer and Refund)
                                                                       Rules, 2016, as amended (‘IEPF Rules’),  the Company has
                Company’s Website                                      uploaded the information in respect of the unclaimed
                The Company’s website is in line with the requirements laid   dividends as on the date of the previous AGM i.e.
                down under Regulation 46 of the SEBI Listing Regulations. It is   July 7, 2020 (81st AGM) on the website of the IEPF viz.
                a comprehensive reference of the Company's management,   www.iepf.gov.in and on the website of the Company at
                vision, mission, policies, corporate governance, corporate   https://www.tatachemicals.com/UnclaimedDividends.htm.
                sustainability, disclosures to investors, updates and news.      (ii)  Transfer of shares to IEPF
                The section on  ‘Investors’ serves to inform the Members
                by giving complete financial details, annual reports,           Pursuant to the provisions of Section 124 of the
                shareholding  patterns, presentation made  to institutional   Act read with the IEPF Rules, all the shares on which
                investors and analysts, corporate benefits, information   dividends remain unpaid or unclaimed for a period of
                relating to stock exchange intimations, Company policies,   seven consecutive years or more shall be transferred to
                Registrar and  Transfer Agent (‘RTA’), etc.  The website also   the demat account of the IEPF Authority as notified by
                has details of press releases, awards and campaigns.   the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Accordingly, the
                                                                       Company has transferred 80,742 Ordinary Shares of
                The proceedings of the 81st AGM held on July 7, 2020 are   face value ` 10 per share to the demat account of the
                also available under the 'Investors' section.          IEPF Authority during FY 2020-21.


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