Punj Lloyd net at Rs 59.83 cr

BS 200 SCORECARD

Engineering major Punj Lloyd reported a near 20-fold jump in net profit at Rs 59.83 crore in the first half of this fiscal ended September 30 compared with Rs 2.97 crore in the year-ago period.

Turnover during April-September 2006-07 rose by a whopping 192.8 per cent at Rs 1,989.7 crore against Rs 679.5 crore in the corresponding period of the last fiscal.

The company had an order backlog of Rs 11,428 crore as on September 30, of which 40 per cent was domestic.