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OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LTD.

01 November 2024 | 07:24

Industry >> Oil Drilling And Exploration

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ISIN No INE213A01029 BSE Code / NSE Code 500312 / ONGC Book Value (Rs.) 262.75 Face Value 5.00
Bookclosure 23/08/2024 52Week High 345 EPS 38.35 P/E 7.09
Market Cap. 348743.17 Cr. 52Week Low 185 P/BV / Div Yield (%) 1.03 / 4.51 Market Lot 1.00
Security Type Other

AUDITOR'S REPORT

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Year End :2024-03 

We have audited the accompanying Standalone Financial Statements of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited

(“the Company”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended on that date, and notes to the Standalone Financial Statements, including a summary of the significant accounting policies and other explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as “the Standalone Financial Statements”).

In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 as amended, (hereinafter referred to as “Ind AS”) and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2024, and its profit, other comprehensive income, changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.

Basis for Opinion

We conducted our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (hereinafter referred to as “SAs”) specified under

section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (hereinafter referred to as “ICAI”) together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI’s Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements.

Emphasis of Matter

We draw attention to Note no. 54 to the Standalone Financial Statements in respect of restatement of previous period financial statements due to correction of the error of the prior periods as mentioned in the said note in respect of survey cost incurred in some of the development or developed areas in the offshore fields with the objective of increasing production.

Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements is not modified in respect of this matter.

Key Audit Matter

Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.

S. No.

Key Audit Matter

How our audit addressed the matter

1

Evaluation of adequacy of provision for impairment for tangible and intangible assets

(Refer Note 47 to the Standalone Financial Statements)

Management has assessed whether any provision needs to be recognized on account of impairment of tangible and intangible assets.

The Company reviews the carrying amount of its tangible and intangible assets (Oil and Gas Assets including Capital Work-in-Progress (CWIP) & Development Wells in Progress (DWIP), Other Property, Plant & Equipment (including Capital Works-inProgress, Right of Use Assets) for the “Cash Generating Unit” (CGU) determined at the end of each reporting period to assess whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered any impairment loss.

Oil and Gas price assumptions have a significant impact on CGU impairment assessments and are inherently uncertain. Furthermore, oil and gas prices are subject to increased uncertainty, given regulatory guidelines including notified gas prices, impact of climate change and the global energy transition.

The management's assumptions for prices of oil and gas in future are highly judgemental and may not be reflective of above factors, leading to a risk of material misstatement of the financial performance and position.

Given the long timeframes involved, certain recoverable amounts of assets are sensitive to the discount rate applied. Since the determination of appropriate discount rate is judgemental, there is a risk that discount rates may not reflect the return required by the market and the risks inherent in the cash flows being discounted, which may lead to a material misstatement.

A key input to impairment assessments and valuations is the production forecast, in turn closely related to the Company's reserves estimates, production profile and field development assumptions with reference to Oil and Gas.

The determination of recoverable amount, being the higher of fair value less costs to sell and value- in use is based on the factors as discussed above, necessitating judgement on the part of management.

In case of exploration and evaluation assets including other Oil and Gas Assets, based on management's judgement, assessment for impairment is carried out when further exploration activities are not planned in near future or when sufficient data indicate that although a development is likely to proceed, the carrying amount of the exploration asset is unlikely to be recovered in full from successful development or by sale.

Based on the above factors, we have considered the measurement of Impairment as Key Audit Matter.

Our audit procedures included the following:

Evaluated the appropriateness of management's identification of the CGUs, exploration and evaluation assets and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the impairment assessment process, including indicators of impairment, as required by relevant financial reporting standards.

Reviewed the reasonableness of the judgments and decisions made by the management regarding assumptions (including the relevant regulatory guidelines) for Oil and Gas prices in future to identify whether there are indicators of possible management bias and accordingly relied upon the management's assumptions for Oil and Gas prices in future.

Reviewed the appropriateness of discount rates used in the estimation.

Relied on the technical assessment of the Management with regard to the Reserves and the Production profile of Oil and Gas, as shown to us by the management.

Performed testing of the mathematical accuracy of the cash flow models and checked the appropriateness of the related disclosures. We evaluated management's assessment and related calculations of impairment including comparison of the recoverable amount with the carrying amounts of respective CGUs in the books of accounts.

Persued the future plans related to exploration activities. Further, we have relied upon management's assessment that the Mining Lease (ML)/ Petroleum Mining Lease (PML) shall be re-granted, wherever expired/ is expiring in near future.

S. No.

Key Audit Matter

How our audit addressed the matter

2

Estimation of Decommissioning liability

(Refer Note 24 to the Standalone Financial Statements)

The Company has an obligation to restore and rehabilitate the Asset/fields operated upon by the Company at the end of their use. This decommissioning liability is recorded based on estimates of the costs required to fulfil this obligation.

The provision is based upon current cost estimates and has been determined on a discounted basis with reference to current legal requirements and technology changes. At each reporting date the decommissioning liability is reviewed and re-measured in line with changes in observable assumptions, timing and the latest estimates of the costs to be incurred at reporting date.

We have considered the measurement of decommissioning costs as Key Audit Matter as it requires significant management judgment, including accounting calculations and estimates that involves high estimation uncertainty.

Our audit procedures included the following:

Evaluated the approach adopted by the management in determining the expected costs of decommissioning.

Identified the cost assumptions used that have the most significant impact on the provisions and tested the appropriateness of these assumptions.

Reviewed the appropriateness of discount and inflation rates used in the estimation.

Verified the unwinding of interest as well as understanding if any restoration was undertaken during the year.

Relied upon the technical assessment with respect to the Production Profile as estimated by the management based on which the Terminal year of the Asset /fields for decommissioning has been estimated.

Relied upon management's assessment that the Mining Lease (ML) / Petroleum Mining Lease (PML) would be regranted, till the terminal year of the field as estimated by the management.

Relied on the judgments of the internal/ external experts for the purpose of technical /commercial evaluation.

Assessed the appropriateness of the disclosures made in the financial statements.

3

Litigations and Claims

(Refer Note 48 to the Standalone Financial Statements)

Litigation and claims are pending with multiple tax and regulatory authorities and there are claims from vendors/suppliers and employees which have not been acknowledged as debt by the Company (including Joint Operations).

In the normal course of business, financial interests or exposures may arise from pending legal/regulatory proceedings and from above referred claims not acknowledged as debt by the company. Whether demands from tax and regulatory authorities and claims from vendors / suppliers are to be recognized as liability or disclosed as a contingent liability in the Standalone Financial Statements or considered as remote, is dependent on a number of significant assumptions and judgments made by the management. The amounts involved are potentially significant and determining the amount, if any, to be recognized or disclosed in the financial statements, is inherently subjective.

We have considered Litigations and claims as Key Audit Matter because the estimates on which these amounts are based involve a significant degree of management judgment, including accounting estimates that involves high estimation uncertainty.

Our audit procedures included the following:

Understood Management's internal instructions, process and control for determining and estimating the tax litigations, other litigations and claims and its appropriate accounting and/or disclosure.

Discussed pending matters with the Company's personnel with respect to status of cases of litigation and claims.

Inquiry with the legal and tax departments regarding the status of most significant disputes and inspection of key relevant documentation.

Review of opinion received from the experts where available.

Assessed management's conclusions through understanding precedents set in similar cases, reviewed the recommendations of the internal committee specially formed by the management, placed reliance upon the expert opinions, wherever obtained by the management.

We have assessed the adequacy and appropriateness of recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of the Contingent liabilities in the Standalone Financial Statements.

S. No.

Key Audit Matter

How our audit addressed the matter

4

Information Technology and General Controls

The Company is dependent on its Information Technology (“IT”) systems for processing and recording its transactions, including financial reporting processes.

Appropriate IT general controls and application controls are required to ensure that such IT systems can process the data, as required, completely, accurately and consistently for reliable financial reporting.

IT application controls are critical to ensure that changes to applications / files / information and underlying data are made in an appropriate manner and under controlled environment. Appropriate controls contribute to mitigating the risk of potential fraud or errors as a result of changes to applications and data.

On account of the pervasive use of IT systems and related control environment on the Company's financial reporting process, the testing of the general computer controls of the IT systems used in financial reporting has been considered to be a Key Audit Matter.

In assessing the integrity of the IT systems relevant for financial reporting, we obtained an understanding of the IT infrastructure and IT systems relevant to the Company's financial reporting process for evaluation and testing of relevant IT general controls and IT application controls (‘SAP'), through inquiries with the management and review of the reports of the Information system control audits done by a third party.

Access rights were tested over applications, operating system, on a sample basis, which are relied upon for financial reporting. We further tested segregation of duties, including preventive controls to ensure that access to change applications, the operating system or databases in the production environment were granted only to authorized personnel.

Our audit included making necessary inquiries with the management, scrutiny of the report on ‘IT audit and security' by a third-party expert, access security (including controls over privileged access), segregation of duties and delegation of authority.

In response to the above IT requirements, enhancement of functionalities in IT System made during the year, we performed the following:

- reviewed controls and performed additional substantive procedures of key general ledger account reconciliations.

- observed that training sessions are also provided to users, to enable full utilization of SAP functionalities.

Reviewed key automated and manual business cycle controls and logic for the reports generated through the IT infrastructure , that were relevant for financial reporting or were used in the exercise of internal financial controls with reference to financial statement, including testing of the compensating controls or alternate procedures to assess whether there were any unaddressed IT risks that would materiality impact the Standalone Financial Statements.

5. Other Matters

i. We have placed reliance on technical / commercial evaluation by the management in respect of categorization of wells as exploratory, development, producing and dry well, allocation of cost incurred on them, production profile, proved (developed and undeveloped) / probable hydrocarbon reserves, and depletion thereof on Oil and Gas Assets, impairment, liability for decommissioning costs, evaluation and timelines for completion of projects under progress, liability for NELP / Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (“HELP”) and nominated blocks for under performance against agreed Minimum Work Programme.

ii. As mentioned in Note No. 46.1.4, the Standalone Financial Statements include the Company’s share in the total value of assets, liabilities, expenditure and income of 201 blocks under New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) / Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) / Discovered Small Fields (DSFs) / Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALPs) and Joint Operations (JO) accounts for exploration and production out of which:

a. 8 blocks have been audited by other Chartered Accountants. In respect of these blocks, Standalone Financial Statements include proportionate share in assets and liabilities as on March 31, 2024 amounting to ' 60,733.53 million and ' 36,687.59 million respectively and revenue and profit including other comprehensive Income for the year ended March 31,2024 amounting to ' 72,881.85 million and ' 15,027.54 million respectively. Our opinion is based on audit reports of the other Chartered Accountants.

b. 19 blocks have been certified by the management. In respect of these blocks, Standalone Financial Statements include proportionate share in assets and liabilities as on March 31, 2024 amounting to ' 8,331.05 million and ' 10,139.39 million respectively and revenue and profit/(loss) including other comprehensive Income for the year ended March 31, 2024 amounting to ' 89.77 million and ' (1,255.52) million respectively. Our opinion is based on management certified accounts in respect of these blocks.

iii. The Standalone Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended March 31,2023 were audited by joint auditors of the Company, four of which were the predecessor audit firms, and have expressed an unmodified opinion dated May 26, 2023 on such standalone financial statements. The said Financial Statements have been restated due to correction of the prior period error as mentioned in note no. 54.

Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements is not modified in respect of these matters.

6. Information Other than the Standalone Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report Thereon

The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation of the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Management Discussion and Analysis, Board’s Report including Annexures to Board’s Report, Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report, Corporate Governance, but does not include the Standalone Financial Statements, Consolidated Financial Statements and our auditors’ reports thereon. The above referred information is expected to be made available to us after the date of this audit report.

Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements, our responsibility is to read the other information identified above when it becomes available and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the Standalone Financial Statements, or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.

When we read other information, if we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance and take appropriate actions necessitated by the circumstance and the applicable laws and regulations.

7. Responsibility of the Management and Those Charged With Governance for the Standalone Financial Statements

The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the Ind AS specified under section 133 of the Act and other accounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the Standalone Financial Statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

The Board of Directors are responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.

8. Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Standalone Financial Statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material

misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these Standalone Financial Statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:

• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the Standalone Financial Statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

• Obtain an understanding of internal financial controls relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.

• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.

• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the Standalone Financial Statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our

auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.

• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of standalone the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the Standalone Financial Statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.

We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.

From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of

most significance in the audit of the Standalone Financial Statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.

9. Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements

i. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (“the Order”) issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the “Annexure -1 ”, a statement on the matters specified in the paragraph 3 and 4 of the order, to the extent possible.

ii. Based on verification of books of accounts of the Company and according to information and explanations given to us, we give below a report on the Directions issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in terms of Section 143(5) of the Act:

S. No.

Directions u/s 143(5) of the Act for year 2023-24

Auditor’s reply on the action taken on the directions

1

Whether the Company has system in place to process all the accounting transactions through IT system? If yes, the implication of processing of accounting transaction outside IT System on the integrity of the accounts along with the financial implications, if any, may be stated.

Yes, the Company has system in place to process all the accounting transactions through IT system, namely SAP. Based on the audit procedures carried out and as per the information and explanations given to us, no accounting transactions have been processed / carried outside the IT system. Accordingly, there are no implications on the integrity of the accounts.

2

Whether there is any restructuring of an existing loan or cases of waiver/ write-off of debts/ loans/ interest etc. made by a lender to the company due to the Company's inability to repay the loan? If yes, the financial impact may be stated. Whether such cases are properly accounted for? (In case, lender is a Government Company, then this direction is also applicable for statutory auditor of lender Company)

Loan/Debt where Company is borrower: Based on the audit procedures carried out and as per the information and explanations given to us, there were no cases of restructuring or waivers / writeoff of debts/ loans/ interest etc. by any lender, due to the company's inability to repay the loan during the FY 2023-24.

Loan/Debt where Company is lender: Based on the audit procedures carried out and as per the information and explanations given to us, there were no cases of restructuring or waivers / write-off of debts/ loans/ interest etc. during the FY 2023-24 with regard to amounts lent by the company to the other parties.

3

Whether funds (Grant/ subsidy etc.) received/ receivable for specific schemes from Central/ State agencies were properly accounted for/ utilized as per its term and conditions? List the cases of deviation.

Based on the audit procedures carried out and as per the information and explanations given to us, the funds (Grant/ subsidy) received/ receivable for specific schemes from Central/ State agencies were properly accounted for/ utilized as per its term and conditions.

iii. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:

a. We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.

b. In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.

c. The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including Other Comprehensive Income, Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statement of Cash Flows dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.

d. In our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements comply with the Ind AS specified under Section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015 as amended.

e. As the company is a Government Company, in terms of notification no. G.S.R. 463(E) dated 5th June 2015, issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the sub-section (2) of section 164 of the Act is not applicable to the company.

f. With respect to the adequacy of internal financial controls with reference to Standalone Financial Statements of the company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in “Annexure 2’. Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company’s internal financial control over financial reporting.

g. As the company is a Government Company, in terms of notification no. G.S.R. 463(E) dated 5th June 2015, issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the sub-section (16) of section 197 of the Act is not applicable to the company.

h. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:

i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its standalone financial statements - Refer Note 48.1.1 to the Standalone Financial Statements.

ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses- Refer Note 56 to the Standalone Financial Statements.

iii. The second interim and final dividend amounting to ' 3.73 million and ' 13.94 million respectively pertaining to financial year 2015-16 which could not be transferred in timely manner, which were due for transfer as on May 15, 2023 and October 26, 2023 respectively but were transferred on June 29, 2023 and December 28, 2023 respectively. Other than the above, there has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.

iv. (a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in Note No. 45.2 to the Standalone Financial Statements, no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the company to or in any other person or entity, including foreign entity (“Intermediaries”), which the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;

(b) The Management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in Note No. 45.2 to the Standalone Financial Statements, no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Company from any person or entity, including foreign entity (“Funding Parties”), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries; and

(c) Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), as provided under (a) and (b) above, contain any material misstatement.

v. (a) The final dividend proposed in the previous year, declared and paid by the Company during the year is in accordance with Section 123 of the Act, as applicable.

(b) The interim dividend declared and paid by the Company during the year is in accordance with Section 123 of the Act.

(c) As stated in Note No. 21.5 to the Standalone Financial Statements, the Board of Directors of the Company has proposed final dividend for the year which is subject to the approval of the members at

the ensuing Annual General Meeting. The amount of dividend proposed is in accordance with section 123 of the Act, as applicable.

vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the company has used an accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions re-corded in the software. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with.

As provision to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from April 1, 2023, reporting under Rule 11 (g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as per the statutory requirements for record retention is not applicable for the financial year ended March 31,2024.

J Gupta & Co LLP Manubhai & Shah LLP V Sankar Aiyar & Co.

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Firm Reg. No. 314010E/E300029 Firm Reg. No. 106041W/W100136 Firm Reg. No. 109208W

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(CA Nancy Gupta) (CA K. B. Solanki) (CA G Sankar)

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Laxmi Tripti & Associates Talati & Talati LLP

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(CA (Dr.) Vivek Mehta) (CA Amit Shah)

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Dated : 20 May 2024 Place : New Delhi