We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Prestige Estates Projects Limited ("the Company"), which includes 30 partnership entities, which comprise the Balance sheet as at March 31 2025, the Statement of Profit and Loss, including the statement of Other Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Cash Flows and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial statements, including a summary of material accounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us and based on the consideration of reports of other auditors on separate financial statements and on the other financial information of the partnership entities, the aforesaid standalone financial statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013, as amended ("the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, its profit including other comprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equity 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 (SAs), as 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 together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the 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 50 to the accompanying financial statements in connection with certain ongoing legal proceedings related to real estate project and income tax search matters. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
KEY AUDIT MATTERS
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the standalone financial statements for the financial year ended March 31, 2025. 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. For each matter below, our description of how our audit addressed the matter is provided in that context.
We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report. We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the standalone financial statements section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying standalone financial statements.
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Key audit matters
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How our audit addressed the key audit matter
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Revenue recognition from Contract with Customers (as described in note 4.2, 35 and 56 of the standalone financial statements)
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In accordance with the requirements of Ind AS 115, Company’s revenue from sale of real estate inventory property (other than projects executed through joint development arrangements described below), is recognised at a point in time, which is upon the Company satisfying its performance obligation and the customer obtaining control of the promised asset.
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Our audit procedures included, among others, the following:
• We read the accounting policy for revenue recognition of the Company and assessed compliance of the policy in terms of principles enunciated under Ind AS 115.
• We, on a sample basis inspected the underlying customer contracts and assessed the management evaluation of determining revenue recognition from sale of real estate inventory property at a point in time in accordance with the requirements under Ind AS 115.
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Key audit matters
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How our audit addressed the key audit matter
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For revenue contract forming part of joint development
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• We understood and tested management process and
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arrangements ('JDA’) that are not jointly controlled operations,
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controls around transfer of control in case of sale of real
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the revenue from the development and transfer of constructed
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estate inventory property and further controls related
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area/ revenue sharing arrangement and the corresponding
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to determination of fair value of estimated construction
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land/ development rights received under JDA is measured at
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service rendered to the landowner in relation to projects
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the fair value of the estimated construction service rendered
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executed through JDA.
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to the land owner. Such revenue is recognised over a period of
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• We, on a sample basis inspected the sale deed and
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time in accordance with the requirements of Ind AS 115.
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handover documents, evidencing the transfer of control
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For contracts involving sale of real estate inventory property,
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of the property to the customer based on which revenue
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the Company receives the consideration in accordance with
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is recognised at a point in time.
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the terms of the contract in proportion of the percentage of completion of such real estate project and represents payments
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• We on a sample basis inspected the underlying customer contracts to determine, whether the contracts with
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made by customers to secure performance obligation of the Company under the contract enforceable by customers. The
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customers involved any financing element.
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assessment of such consideration received from customers
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• We obtained and examined the computation of the fair
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involves significant judgment in determining if the contracts
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value of the construction service under JDA.
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with customers involves any financing element.
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• We obtained the joint development agreements entered
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Ind AS 115 requires significant judgment in determining
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into by the Company and compared the ratio of constructed
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when 'control’ of the property underlying the performance
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area/ revenue sharing arrangement between the Company
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obligation is transferred to the customer. Further, for projects
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and the landowner as mentioned in the agreement to the
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executed through JDA, significant estimate is undertaken by
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computation statement prepared by the management.
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management for determining the fair value of the estimated
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• We compared the fair value of the estimated construction
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construction service.
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service, to the project cost estimates and mark up
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As the revenue recognition involves significant estimates and
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considered by the management.
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judgement, we regard this as a key audit matter.
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• We tested the computation for recognition of revenue over a period of time for revenue contracts forming part of JDA and the Company’s assessment of stage of completion of projects and project cost estimates on test check basis.
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• We assessed the disclosures made in accordance with the requirements of Ind AS 115.
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Assessing the recoverability of carrying value of Property, plant and equipment (PPE), Capital work-in-progress (CWIP) and Investment property (as described in note 4.9, 4.10, 4.H, 4.13, 7, 8 and 9 of the standalone financial statements)
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As at March 31, 2025, the carrying value of PPE, CWIP
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Our audit procedures included, among others, the following:
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and Investment property is ' 4,491 million, ' 49 million and ' 24,374 million respectively. The carrying value of PPE, CWIP and Investment property (collectively referred to as 'Assets’) is
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• We read and evaluated the accounting policies with respect to PPE, CWIP and Investment property.
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calculated using land costs, construction costs, interest costs
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• We evaluated management’s identification of CGU’s
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and other related costs. The Company reviews on a periodical
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and the methodology applied in assessing the carrying
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basis whether there are any indicators of impairment of
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value of each CGU in compliance with the applicable
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Assets, i.e., ensuring that Assets are carried at no more than
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accounting standards.
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their recoverable amount.
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• We examined the management assessment in
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We considered the assessment of carrying value of Assets
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determining whether any impairment indicators exist.
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as a key audit matter due to significance of the balance and
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• We assessed the Company’s valuation methodology and
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significant estimates and judgement involved in impairment assessment.
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assumptions based on current economic and market conditions, applied in determining the recoverable amount.
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• We compared the recoverable amount of the Assets to the carrying value in books.
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• We assessed the disclosures made in the standalone financial statements in this regard.
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Key audit matters
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How our audit addressed the key audit matter
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Assessing the recoverability of carrying value of Inventory (as described in note 4.14 and 16 of the standalone financial statements)
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As at March 31,2025, the carrying value of inventory comprising of Work in progress and Stock of units in completed projects is ' 74,727 million. The inventory is valued at the lower of the cost and net recognized value ("NRV"). The determination of the NRV involves estimates based on prevailing market conditions and taking into account the estimated future selling price, cost to complete projects and selling costs.
We identified the assessment of the carrying value of inventory as a key audit matter due to the significance of the balance to the standalone financial statements as a whole and the involvement of estimates and judgement in the assessment.
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Our audit procedures included, among others, the following:
• We evaluated the design and operation of internal controls related to testing recoverable amounts with carrying amount of inventory, including evaluating management processes for estimating future costs to complete projects.
• We assessed the Company’s methodology based on current economic and market conditions, applied in assessing the carrying value.
• We obtained and tested the computation involved in assessment of carrying value including the NRV.
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• We made inquiries with management to understand key assumptions used in determination of the NRV.
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• We compared the total projected budgeted cost to the total budgeted sale value from the project.
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• We compared the NRV to recent sales in the project or to the estimated selling price, applied in assessing the NRV.
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• We compared the NRV to the carrying value in books.
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Assessing the recoverability of carrying value of Investments and loans and advances made by the Company in subsidiaries, joint ventures and associate (as described in note 4.16, 11, 12 and 21 of the standalone financial statements)
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As at March 31, 2025, the carrying values of Company’s investment in subsidiaries, joint ventures and associate amounted to ' 39,793 million. Further, the Company has granted loans and advances to its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associate amounting to ' 80,243 million as at March 31, 2025.
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Our audit procedures included, among others, the following:
• We read and evaluated the accounting policies with respect to investments and loans and advances.
• We examined the management assessment in determining whether any impairment indicators exist.
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Management reviews regularly whether there are any indicators of impairment of the investments and loans and advances by reference to the requirements under Ind AS.
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• We assessed the Company’s methodology applied in assessing the carrying value under the relevant accounting standards.
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For cases where impairment indicators exist, management estimated the recoverable amounts of the investments, being higher of fair value less costs of disposal and value in use. Significant judgements are required to determine the key assumptions used in determination of fair value/ value in use.
We focused our effort on those cases with impairment indicators. As the impairment assessment involves significant assumptions and judgement, we regard this as a key audit matter.
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• We assessed the Company’s valuation methodology and assumptions based on current economic and market conditions, applied in determining the recoverable/ realisable amount.
• We compared the recoverable/ realisable amount of the investment and loans and advances to the carrying value in books.
• We read the most recent audited financial statements of component entities and performed inquiries with management on the project status and future business plan of component entities.
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• We assessed the disclosures made in the standalone financial statements regarding such investments and loans and advances.
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OTHER INFORMATION
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual report, but does not include the standalone financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The Annual report is expected to be made available to us after the date of this auditor’s 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 and, in doing so, consider whether such other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF 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 including other comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of 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 the 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.
Those charged with governance are also responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.
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 the 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 control 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 with reference to financial statements 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 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 the standalone financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the standalone financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
• For the partnership entities included in the standalone financial statements, which have been audited by other auditors, such other auditors remain responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the audits carried out by them. We remain solely responsible for our audit opinion.
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 for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 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.
OTHER MATTER
We did not audit the financial statements and other financial information as regards Company’s net share in profits of partnership firm/ limited liability partnership
entities (post tax) amounting to ' 1,619 million for the year ended March 31, 2025, as considered in these standalone financial statements, in respect of 30 entities. These financial statements and other financial information of the said partnership firm/ limited liability partnership entities have been audited by other auditors, Our opinion on the standalone financial statements, in so far as it relates to the amounts and disclosures included in respect of these partnership firm/ limited liability partnership entities and our report in terms of sub-sections (3) of Section 143 of the Act, in so far as it relates to the these partnership firm/ limited liability partnership entities, is based solely on the reports of such other auditors. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.
REPORT ON OTHER LEGAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS
1. 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 paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report, to the extent applicable, 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, in electronic mode on servers physically located in India so far as it appears from our examination of those books, except that - a) the backup of the books of account and other books and papers maintained in electronic mode with respect to individual hotel unit of the Company has not been maintained on servers physically located in India on daily basis as stated in note 55 to the standalone financial statements; and b) for the matters stated in the paragraph (i)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g);
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including the Statement of Other Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Cash Flows and Statement of Changes in Equity 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 Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended;
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31, 2025 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2025 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act;
(f) The modification relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in the paragraph (b) above on reporting under section 143(3)(b) and paragraph (i)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11(g);
(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to standalone financial statements and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure 2” to this report;
(h) In our opinion, the managerial remuneration for the year ended March 31, 2025 has been paid/ provided by the Company to its directors in accordance with the provisions of section 197 read with Schedule V to the Act;
(i) 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 44 and 50 to the standalone financial statements;
ii. The Company has made provision, as required under the applicable law or accounting standards, for material foreseeable losses, if any, on long-term contracts including derivative contracts - Refer note 34 to the standalone financial statements;
iii. Following are the instances of delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company:
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Date of payment
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Amount involved No of day's delay
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Amount in the Unpaid Dividend Account relating to FY 2016-17
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May 13, 2025
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' 0.01 million 161 days
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a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, other than as disclosed in the note 59(v) to the standalone financial statements, no funds 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 persons or entities, including foreign entities ("Intermediaries"), with 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”)
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The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, as disclosed in the note 59(vi) to the standalone financial statements, no funds have been received by the Company from any persons or entities, including foreign entities ("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
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or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries;
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Based on such audit procedures performed that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the
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circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representations under sub¬ clause (a) and (b) contain any material misstatement.
v. The final dividend paid by the Company during the year in respect of the same declared for the previous year is in accordance with section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to payment of dividend.
As stated in note 25.6 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 dividend declared is in accordance with section 123 of the Act to the extent it applies to declaration of dividend.
vi. Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has used 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 recorded in the software except for - a) audit trail feature is not enabled for direct changes to
data when using certain access rights, and b) in respect of individual hotel unit of the Company wherein its accounting software did not have the audit trail feature enabled throughout the year, as described in note 55 to the standalone financial statements. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with, in respect of accounting software where the audit trail has been enabled. Additionally, the audit trail of the relevant prior year has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention to the extent it was enabled and recorded in the respective year.
For S.R. Batliboi & Associates LLP
Chartered Accountants ICAI Firm Registration Number: 101049W/E300004
per Sudhir Kumar Jain
Partner
Membership Number: 213157 UDIN: 25213157BMNZEK9907
Place: Bengaluru, India Date: May 29, 2025
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