RailTel Corporation of India , a Government of India Undertaking under the Ministry of Railways, has announced the convening of its 26th Annual General Meeting through Video Conferencing and Other Audio-Visual Means. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:30 Hrs, in compliance with MCA General Circular No. 03/2025 dated September 22, 2025, the Companies Act, 2013, and the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.

AGM Notice and Annual Report Dispatch

The Notice of the 26th AGM and the Annual Report for Financial Year 2025-26 were sent electronically on Tuesday, July 28, 2026 to all members whose email addresses were registered with the Company, Depository, or Registrar and Share Transfer Agent as on Friday, July 24, 2026. The documents are also hosted on the company's website at www.railtel.in , as well as on the websites of BSE Limited, National Stock Exchange of India Limited, and NSDL.

E-Voting Schedule and Key Dates

The company has engaged NSDL to provide remote e-voting facilities to members for casting votes on the business set forth in the AGM Notice. The following key dates and timelines have been established:

Dividend and Record Date

RailTel Corporation has fixed Thursday, August 13, 2026 as the record date for determining the eligibility of members to receive the final dividend. The final dividend, if approved by shareholders at the 26th AGM, will be paid within 30 days from the date of its declaration at the meeting.

E-Voting Participation Guidelines

Only those members whose names appear in the Register of Beneficial Owners maintained by the depositories as on the cut-off date of August 13, 2026 will be entitled to avail the remote e-voting facility or vote through the e-voting system during the AGM. Key participation conditions include:

• Members who have cast their vote via remote e-voting may attend the AGM through VC/OAVM but shall not be entitled to cast their vote again
• Once a vote on a resolution is submitted through e-voting, it cannot be changed
• Only members present at the AGM via VC/OAVM who have not previously cast their vote through remote e-voting are eligible to vote during the AGM
• Members who acquire shares after the electronic dispatch of the AGM notice and hold shares as on the cut-off date may obtain login credentials by sending a request to evoting@nsdl.co.in
• The remote e-voting facility is available at www.evoting.nsdl.com

Contact and Compliance Details

The AGM is being conducted in compliance with applicable regulatory provisions. Members with queries regarding e-voting may contact NSDL at 022-4886 7000 or 022-2499 7000, or write to evoting@nsdl.co.in . The company's Company Secretary and Compliance Officer, J S Marwah, may be reached at cs@railtel.in or +91 11 22900600. RailTel Corporation's registered and corporate office is located at Plate-A, 6th Floor, Office Block, Tower-2, East Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi-110023.

RailTel Corporation of India Limited has submitted its Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) for FY 2025-26 to the stock exchanges on July 28, 2026, in compliance with Regulation 34(2)(f) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. The report, forming part of the company's Annual Report, is prepared on a standalone basis and covers RailTel's performance across all nine principles of the National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct (NGRBC). The report has been signed by J. S. Marwah, Company Secretary and Compliance Officer (Membership No. FCS 8075).

Company Overview and Business Activities

RailTel Corporation of India Limited (RCIL), incorporated in the year 2000 with CIN L64202DL2000GOI107905, is a Schedule A Central Public Sector Enterprise with its registered and corporate office at Plate-A, 6th Floor, Office Block, Tower-2, East Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi-110023. The company operates 30 offices across India and serves international markets in 2 countries (Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, through MEA), with exports contributing 0.176% of total turnover. The company's paid-up capital stands at ₹320.94 Cr.

RailTel's business activities, accounting for 90% of its turnover, are distributed across five segments as detailed below:

The company's customer base spans Indian Railways, government organizations, ministries, educational institutions, corporate entities, retail customers, banks, NBFCs, and private enterprises across India.

Financial and CSR Disclosures

For FY 2025-26, RailTel reported a turnover of ₹4277.48 Cr and a net worth of ₹2261.61 Cr. CSR is applicable to the company under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. During the year, BSE and NSE imposed a cumulative penalty of ₹65,91,480 on the company for non-compliance with requirements pertaining to an adequate number of Independent Directors on the Board and non-compliance of composition of different committees across four quarters. The company has written request letters to BSE and NSE seeking waiver of these fines, citing that the appointment of Independent Directors was pending at the level of the Ministry of Railways.

The company's MoU performance for FY 2024-25 was rated as "Very Good" by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE). Key financial transparency metrics are presented below:

Workforce and Employee Well-being

As at the end of FY 2025-26, RailTel's total workforce stood at 917 employees, comprising 595 permanent and 322 other-than-permanent employees. The company had no employees under the worker category. Of the total workforce, 834 were male (90.95%) and 83 were female (9.05%). The company also employed 11 differently abled employees, of whom 10 were male and 1 was female.

The Board of Directors comprised 8 members, of whom 1 (12.50%) was female. All 595 permanent employees were covered under health insurance and accident insurance, and 100% received performance and career development reviews in FY 2025-26. The overall employee turnover rate for permanent employees was 3.91% in FY 2025-26, compared to 6.36% in FY 2024-25. The cost incurred on well-being measures as a percentage of total revenue was 0.05% in both FY 2025-26 and FY 2024-25. Gross wages paid to females as a percentage of total wages stood at 8.83% in FY 2025-26, compared to 9.16% in FY 2024-25.

Environmental Performance

RailTel's total energy consumption for FY 2025-26 was 73161.71 GJ, comprising 13787.36 GJ from renewable sources and 59,374.35 GJ from non-renewable sources. Energy intensity per rupee of turnover stood at 17.10 GJ/INR in FY 2025-26, compared to 17.81 GJ/INR in FY 2024-25.

Total waste generated and disposed in FY 2025-26 was 25.93 metric tons (compared to 86.64 metric tons in FY 2024-25), primarily comprising battery waste of 21.9724 metric tons, e-waste of 1.253 metric tons, and paper & cardboard waste of 2.709 metric tons. RailTel also implemented an alien wavelength integration strategy to reuse legacy DWDM systems, resulting in CAPEX savings of approximately ₹40 crore and reduced e-waste generation.

Governance, Certifications, and Social Initiatives

During FY 2025-26, RailTel achieved CMMI Maturity Level 5 certification, strengthening its governance framework through process-driven operations, robust internal controls, and risk management. The company maintained key certifications including ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and Tier III certification for its data centers, and underwent cybersecurity audits by M/s E&Y and M/s Deloitte. An independent assessor, M/s VMC Management Consulting Private Limited, was engaged for assessment of the BRSR reporting framework.

On the R&D front, RailTel incurred expenditure of ₹11.29 Cr in FY 2025-26, achieving 105.51% of the MoU target of ₹10.70 Cr. Key R&D initiatives included transition to a cloud-native microservices architecture, development of a Smart Inventory System, deployment of a Threat Intelligence Dashboard processing over 4.58 million threat flows with a false-positive rate of 0.02%, and implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO) with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) across all organizational web applications.

In the social domain, RailTel's Akansha Super-30 initiative empowered 283 underprivileged students, achieving a 94% success rate in securing admissions to top engineering institutions. Procurement through the GeM portal amounted to ₹114.73 crore in FY 2025-26, representing 27.21% of total procurement of goods and services. Input material sourced directly from MSMEs/small producers increased to 66.83% in FY 2025-26 from 33.04% in FY 2024-25. Zero complaints were reported during FY 2025-26 across categories including sexual harassment, discrimination at workplace, child labour, forced labour, and data privacy.