Essar Ports: Allotment of shares to Essar Ports Employee Stock Options Scheme Trust

Essar Ports Ltd has informed BSE that the Company has on September 14, 2015 allotted 1,84,133 equity shares of face value of Rs. 10/- each to the Essar Ports Employee Stock Options Scheme Trust pursuant to the Essar Ports Limited Employees Stock Option Scheme - 2011 against an equal number of Options to enable eligible employees to exercise their Options that have vested at the end of the 3rd year from the grant date.

In view of the above the paid-up capital of the Company has been increased to Rs. 42,820.26 lakhs divided into 42,80,72,131 equity shares of Rs. 10/- each.