Promoters

Senate® is a part of US$120MM enterprise named as “Honorable Padmakarrao Mulay Group of Industries”. There are different companies and lines of Business under the “Honorable Padmakarrao Mulay group of Industries” namely:

1. Ajeet Seeds Ltd

Ajeet Seeds Ltd was established in 1986 during green revolution by a well known industrialist Honorable Mr. Padmakarrao Mulay.

Ajeet Seeds Ltd is a company with ‘21 years of excellence’ and is earnestly dedicated to farm prosperity. It is already geared up for genetic research using crop bio-technology, which shall help in the prosperity of Indian farmers.

The company has established a “State of Art” laboratory supported by a team of expert scientist. The company is trying to develop own / indigenous transgenic technology for the crops which shall accelerate the progress furthermore in the nearest future.

Ajeet Seeds Ltd is the first private seed company to introduce proprietor variety of Ajeet-102 wheat. The progress is continued as well as spontaneous. As a result, the product profile of the company covers 22 crops and 55 different hybrids varieties.

2. Gangamai Industries and Construction Ltd

Gangamai Industries & Constructions Ltd. started functioning from 1999 with a capacity to manufacture 2,500 Metric Ton of sugar per day. The company’s factory is spread over an area of 123 Acres at Ghatnandra village, Dist. Aurangabad. The company is also engaged in fuel Ethanol production with a capacity of production 45,000 litres per day. The company is also having a distillery project which shall be completed in the nearest future.

Sugar Export
Gangamai Industries & Constructions Ltd. exports sugar to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & other East Asian countries in addition to merchant export.

Construction activity
Gangamai Industries & Constructions Ltd. is having sub contracting arrangement with M/s. Mulay Brothers Ltd. and is involved in construction of following irrigation projects:

• Urmudi Project (Dist. Satara)
• Kalmodi Project (Dist. Pune)
• Sina Kolegaon Project (Dist. Osmanabad)
• Sakli Project (Dist. Hingoli)

3. Mulay Brothers Ltd

Mulay Brothers Ltd. is registered with the P.W.D department of Govt. of Maharashtra under A-1 class category (without limit) for last 25 years. The company has also registered as a contractor with various corporations promoted by the State Govt.

4. Senate Technologies (I) Pvt Ltd

Senate® Technologies (INDIA) Private Limited is a global IT consulting and services company specialized in industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and integration services. Clients gain competitive advantage by leveraging our unique delivery capability to achieve rapid deployment, world-class quality and reduced costs. Senate® is concentrating on application maintenance and development, Outsourcing in the Mobile Business solutions, Banking & Financial services, Insurance, Retail and distribution, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, and High-tech industries.

Senate® is one of the leading global IT service providers with superior value-priced services for different sectors. Senate®’s IT services are offered on a project or strategic staff augmentation basis, in both custom built solutions and enterprise resource planning package environments. This is done across all technology platforms, operating systems, and infrastructures.

5. Spring Advertising Pvt Ltd

Spring Advertising Pvt. Ltd. is having independent creative and advertising wing under the name of Spring Advertising Pvt. Ltd. It specializes in high quality artwork, print and audio-visual media.

6. Educational Trust – Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Shikshan Sanstha

The Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Shikshan Sanstha (CSMSS) was established in 1986. The main aim of CSMSS is to provide professional courses of education in the state of Maharashtra and in Marathwada region. To achieve this aim, CSMSS has started an Ayurvedic College in the year 1989-1990 having an intake capacity of 100 students per year. The college provides facilities of P.G. Degree Courses in two subjects having four seats in each faculty. Proposal is under consideration of Govt. to start P.G. Degree Course in three additional subjects.
CSMSS has started another professional course in Dentistry having BDS Degree course in the year 1991-1992 having an intake capacity of 100 students per year. The higher education facilities of providing P.G. Degree course i.e. MDS in three subjects is under favorable consideration of Govt. and the courses are likely to get started in 2007-2008.
To make people aware about advanced farming and provide Agriculture Education to the sons of farmers, CSMSS has started Agriculture College and Horticulture College. This has begun functioning since 2006-2007 and has an intake capacity of 96 students per Year. CSMSS has also started Polytechnic college with an intake capacity of 300 which can be scaled to 640 students.
CSMSS is developing on a fast pace with a vision. The goal of CSMSS is to open the doors of education in another educational stream and has been decided to start colleges in employment-oriented courses in the near future.

7. Biotechnology Company – Advance Technology Genetics Centre

The biotechnology wing undertakes following tests for the company’s and its customers:

• ELISA based diagnostic testing for Cry 1Ac, Cry 1Ab, Cry 1F and Cry 1 Ab/Ac.
• PCR based diagnostic testing for Cry 1Ac and Cry 2Ab.
• DNA finger printing and quantitative Elisa testing. This section is headed by expert and qualified Bio-technologists.

The company is having independent and well-equipped Tissue Culture Laboratory. The tissue culture plantlets of leading varieties of sugarcane, Banana, Stevia, and some important medicinal plants are produced under aseptic & hygienic conditions. The demand for “Ajeet” Sugarcane and Banana seedlings are year on year. The R & D unit of tissue culture laboratory has also developed its own Banana variety named ‘SONIA’. The tissue culture plantlets are delivered to the farmers.

Achievements by Ajeet Seeds Ltd

• DSIR National Award, 2006 for Outstanding Research Achievements was confirmed on Ajeet Seeds Ltd., by the Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi. The Outstanding R & D achievements for which the Award is declared to the company includes:
  • Release & Notification of Cotton hybrids, Ajeet-11 & Ajeet-33 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
  • Making available the cotton hybrids with Bt genes for cultivation after being duly approved by Genetic Engineering Approval Committee
  • Development and Commercialization of outstanding Okra hybrids, Ajeet-333 & Ajeet-345 with genetic male sterility base
• In recognition to the contributions in Agriculture and Social welfare, number of awards like “Marathwada Kesari” in year 2001, “Marathwada Ratna & Maharashtra Bhushan” in Sept, 2002 have been confirmed on our Hon’ble Chairman Shri Padmakar Haribhau Mulay and presented by the gracious hands of our Chief Minister Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh.
• The company started with the seed production of couple of notified varieties in 1986 and is now producing 22 crops and their 55 different hybrid varieties.
• In house R&D unit is recognized by Ministry of Science and Technology, Department Of Science And Industrial Research, Government of India.
• The company has developed its own genetic resources of GMS and CMS based hybrid seeds in case of cotton, jowar, bajra, pear millet, chili, okra and pigeon pea. The company has separate R & D facilities, with well-equipped laboratories and qualified research scientists.
• Hybrid cotton, Ajeet-11 (irrigated and rain fed) has been consistently ranked first for three years by All India Coordinated Cotton Improvement Project (AICCIP) trials conducted by ICAR, New Delhi.
• Hybrid cotton, Ajeet-33 (irrigated) has been consistently ranked first for two years consistently by (AICCIP) trials conducted by ICAR, New Delhi.
• Jowar hybrids, Ajeet-997 and Ajeet-333 have been ranked first in the National level testing.
• Improved chili, Ajeet-11 has been ranked second during 2001-02 under yield trials conducted by All India Coordinated Vegetable Improvement Project of ICAR, New Delhi.
• The first private seed company in the seed industry to introduce proprietary variety of Wheat, Ajeet-102.
• The company has established wide and well spread network of 400 distributors, 3000 dealers, more than 26000 of seed producers, and growers all over India.
• The company has established Tie up with Mahyco-Monsanto for Transgenic (Bt) cotton technology in April, 2002 and aims to develop its own transgenic technology in various crops.
• The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), Ministry of Environment & Forest, Government of India, has given permission for sales of Bollgard-I (Ajeet-33 and Ajeet-155) and Bollgard-II (Ajeet-11) cotton hybrids in Central and South zone in May & June, 2006.