MUMBAI : Engineering and capital goods major Siemens Ltd reported a 39% fall in net profit year-on-year in the March 2020 quarter at ₹172 crore, as revenue declined 21% to ₹2,738 crore over the same period.
The company attributed the decline in revenue to a slowdown in the business cycle and deferred offtake by customers. The company’s order backlog stands at ₹12,547 crore.
The company said that the covid-19 pandemic and the national lockdown in India has hit short-cycle businesses while there has been a prolonged weaker demand in large infrastructure projects. “With the slowdown in the economy being accelerated and accentuated by the sudden impact of the Covid-19 crisis, capital expenditure spending reduced dramatically in the current