Rating Rationale
May 27, 2020 | Mumbai
Navkar Traders
Issuer not cooperating, based on best-available information; Ratings migrated to 'CRISIL BB/Stable/CRISIL A4+ Issuer not cooperating'
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities Rated Rs.16 Crore
Long Term Rating CRISIL BB/Stable (ISSUER NOT COOPERATING; Rating Migrated)*
Short Term Rating CRISIL A4+ (ISSUER NOT COOPERATING; Rating Migrated)*
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities
*Issuer did not cooperate; based on best-available information
Please note that the rating(s) are based on best available information with the credit rating agency: the entity whose debt is being published via this press release did not provide the requisite information needed to conduct the rating exercise and is therefore classified as 'non cooperative'.
Non cooperation by Issuer

CRISIL has been consistently following up with Navkar Traders (NT; a part of the Navkar group) for obtaining information through letters and emails dated May 13, 2020 and May 18, 2020 among others, apart from telephonic communication. However, the issuer has remained non cooperative.
 
'The investors, lenders and all other market participants should exercise due caution while using the rating assigned/reviewed with the suffix 'ISSUER NOT COOPERATING'. These ratings lack a forward looking component as it is arrived at without any management interaction and is based on best available or limited or dated information on the company.

Detailed Rationale

Despite repeated attempts to engage with the management, CRISIL failed to receive any information on either the financial performance or strategic intent of NT, which restricts CRISIL's ability to take a forward looking view on the entity's credit quality. CRISIL believes information available on NT is consistent with 'Scenario 1' outlined in the 'Framework for Assessing Consistency of Information with CRISIL BB' category or lower'.
 
Therefore, on account of inadequate information and lack of management cooperation, CRISIL has migrated the rating on bank facilities of NT to 'CRISIL BB/Stable/CRISIL A4+ Issuer not cooperating'.
 
For arriving at the rating of NT, CRISIL has consolidated the business and financial risk profile of Navkar Global Infra (NGI) with other group entities (hereinafter referred as AS Group), namely AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd (ASKPL), Cosmos Infra (CI), NT, and Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co.(SSSTC) as the entities are in same line of business, with operational and financial linkages, and common promoters. 

About the Group

The Navkar group consist of two companies & three firms engaged in trading of construction material such as coarse sand, aggregate, stone dust, m-sand, steel, cement, shuttering plywood, autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) blocks, stone dust, and fly ash. The group majorly caters to construction & cement industries.
 
ASKPL, incorporated on 22 November, 2010. AS Krishna Associates is registered in Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Core business is supply of coarse sand, fine sand, aggregates, stone dust and manufactured-sand. Mr Sanat Kumar, Mr Amit Jain, Mr Sanjay Gupta and Mr Sandeep Goyal are the directors.
 
SSSTC was incorporated on 14 March, 2012. Core business is filling sand, fine sand and aggregate. It is the major vendor for supplies of aggregates and sand. It has its own stockyard of aggregates and sand in Kundli Industrial Area, Sonepat (Haryana). It owns 30 trucks and five loaders. Presently SSSTC is managed by Mr Ajay Kumar and Ms Kusum Jain, who hold shares in ratio of 41:59, respectively.
 
NT, a proprietorship firm set up in 2007, by Mr Sanat Kumar, and is registered in Haryana, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. It mainly carries the trading business of coarse sand, aggregate, stone dust, m-sand, steel, cement, shuttering plywood, AAC blocks and flyash. NT is one of major vendors for reputed companies such as L&T, Sadbhav Engineering Ltd, BG Shirke Construction Technology Pvt Ltd, ACC Ltd, LafargeHolcim, and Ashoka Buildcon Ltd.
 
CI is a partnership formed in September 25, 2017. Its registered office is in Rohini, New Delhi. This firm trades in rori, sand, cement, dust and other building construction material. CI is presently run by Mr Sambhav Jain and Mr Ajay Kumar.
 
NGI is a partnership firm set up on January 29, 2018. Its registered office in Rohini, New Delhi. This firm trades in aggregate, dust, sand, ballast or any other related items. Mr Sanat Kumar, Mr Dharmender Sadh, and Mr Anil Sharma are the partners, sharing profit & losses in ratio of 68:16:16, respectively.

Any other information: Not applicable

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Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)*
ISIN Name of Instrument Date of Allotment Coupon
Rate (%)
Maturity Date Issue
Size
(Rs. Cr)
Rating Assigned  with Outlook
NA Cash Credit NA NA NA 9.75 CRISIL BB/Stable/Issuer Not Cooperating
NA Proposed Bill Discounting Facility NA NA NA 6.25 CRISIL A4+/Issuer Not Cooperating
*Issuer did not cooperate; based on best-available information
Annexure - Rating History for last 3 Years
  Current 2020 (History) 2019  2018  2017  Start of 2017
Instrument Type Outstanding Amount Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Rating
Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST  16.00  CRISIL BB/Stable/ CRISIL A4+ (Issuer Not Cooperating)*      04-02-19  CRISIL BB/Stable/ CRISIL A4+  19-03-18  CRISIL BB/Stable    --  -- 
All amounts are in Rs.Cr.
*Issuer did not cooperate; based on best-available information
Annexure - Details of various bank facilities
Current facilities Previous facilities
Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Rating Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Rating
Cash Credit 9.75 CRISIL BB/Stable/Issuer Not Cooperating Cash Credit 9.75 CRISIL BB/Stable
Proposed Bill Discounting Facility 6.25 CRISIL A4+/Issuer Not Cooperating Proposed Bill Discounting Facility 6.25 CRISIL A4+
Total 16 -- Total 16 --
Links to related criteria
CRISILs Approach to Financial Ratios
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings - process, scale and default recognition
Criteria for rating trading companies
Framework for Assessing Information Adequacy Risk
Rating criteria for manufaturing and service sector companies
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings
CRISILs Criteria for Consolidation
Criteria for rating entities belonging to homogenous groups
The Rating Process
Understanding CRISILs Ratings and Rating Scales

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