1) We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of THEHINDUSTAN HOUSING COMPANY LIMITED ("the Company") whichcomprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2024, the Statement of Profit and Loss(including Other Comprehensive Income), Statement of Changes in Equity andStatement of Cash Flows for the year ended March 31, 2024 and notes to thefinancial statements, including a summary of material accounting policies and otherexplanatory information (hereinafter referred to as "the standalone financialstatements").
2) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanationsgiven to us, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements give the informationrequired by the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") in the manner so required andgive a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standardsprescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (IndianAccounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, ("Ind AS") and other accountingprinciples generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as atMarch 31, 2024 and its profit and total Comprehensive Income, changes in equityand its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
3) We conducted our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements in accordance withthe Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Ourresponsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor'sResponsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of ourreport. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethicsissued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) together with theindependence requirements that are relevant to our audit of the StandaloneFinancial Statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules madethereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordancewith these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the auditevidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for ouraudit opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements.
4) Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgement, were ofmost significance in our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements of the currentperiod. We have determined that there are no key audit matters to communicate inour report.
5) The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. Theother information comprises the information included in the Annual report butdoes not include the Standalone financial statements and our auditor's reportthereon.
6) Our opinion on the Standalone financial statements does not cover the otherinformation and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
7) In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, ourresponsibility is to read the other information and in doing so, consider whether theother information is materially inconsistent with the standalone financialstatements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to bematerially misstated.
8) If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a materialmisstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We havenothing to report in this regard.
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9) The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation ofthese Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view of the financialposition, the financial performance, total comprehensive income, changes in equityand cash flows of the Company in accordance with the accounting principlesgenerally accepted in India, including the Ind AS prescribed under section 133 ofthe Act.
10) This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records inaccordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of theCompany and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities;selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgmentsand estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation andmaintenance of adequate internal financial controls that were operating effectivelyfor ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant tothe preparation and presentation of the Standalone Financial Statements that give atrue and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud orerror.
11) In preparing the Standalone Financial Statements, management and Board ofDirectors are responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a goingconcern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using thegoing concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidatethe Company or to cease operations or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the Company's financialreporting process.
12) Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the StandaloneFinancial Statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether dueto 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 anaudit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatementwhen it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are consideredmaterial if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected toinfluence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these StandaloneFinancial Statements.
13) As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment andmaintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the Standalone FinancialStatements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit proceduresresponsive to those risks and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient andappropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting amaterial misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting fromerror, 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 inorder to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances.Under section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressing ouropinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls withreference to standalone financial statements in place and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonablenessof accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concernbasis of accounting and based on the audit evidence obtained, whether amaterial uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may castsignificant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If weconclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention inour auditor's report to the related disclosures in the Standalone FinancialStatements or if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Ourconclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of ourauditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Companyto cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the StandaloneFinancial Statements, including the disclosures and whether the StandaloneFinancial Statements represent the underlying transactions and events in amanner that achieves fair presentation.
14) We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among othermatters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings,including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during ouraudit.
15) We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we havecomplied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence and tocommunicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably bethought to bear on our independence and where applicable, related safeguards.
16) From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, wedetermine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of theStandalone Financial Statements of the current year and are therefore the key auditmatters. We describe these matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulationprecludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rarecircumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in ourreport because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expectedto outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication. We conclude thatthere are no key audit matters that need to be communicated.
17) As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order") issuedby the Central Government in terms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in"Annexure A" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of theOrder.
18) (A) 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 thebest 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 bythe Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books, exceptfor certain matters in respect of audit trail as stated in paragraph 18(B)(vi) below.
(c) The Standalone Balance sheet, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss(including Other Comprehensive Income), Standalone Statement of Changes inEquity and the Standalone Statement of Cash Flow dealt with by this report arein agreement with the relevant books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements comply with theIndian Accounting Standards prescribed under Section 133 of the Act.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31March 2024 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on 31 March 2024 from being appointed as a director in terms ofSection 164(2) of the Act; and
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference toStandalone Financial Statements of the Company and the operating effectivenessof such controls, refer to our separate report in "Annexure B".
(B) 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 tothe explanations given to us:
i. The company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financialposition in its Standalone Financial Statements - Refer note 36 to theStandalone Financial Statements.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivativecontracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses;
iii. There is no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to theInvestor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, no funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either fromborrowed funds or share premium or any kind of funds) by the Company toor in any other persons or entities, including foreign entities("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Intermediary shall:
• directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identifiedin any manner whatsoever ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") by or on behalf ofthe Company or
• provide any guarantee, security or the like to or on behalf of the UltimateBeneficiaries.
b) The management has represented, that, to the best of its knowledge andbelief, no funds have been received by the Company from any persons orentities, including foreign entities ("Funding Parties"), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that theCompany shall:
• directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identifiedin any manner whatsoever ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") by or on behalf ofthe Funding Party or
• provide any guarantee, security or the like from or on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries; and
c) Based on such audit procedures as considered reasonable and appropriatein the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us tobelieve that the representations under clause (iv) (a) and (iv) (b) containany material misstatement.
v. The Company has not paid or declared dividend during the year.
vi. The reporting under rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors)Rules, 2014 is applicable from 1st April 2023.
Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company hasused an accounting software for maintaining its books of account which hasa feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility except for:
a) The period 1st April 2023 to 11th March 2024 where edit log feature in theprimary accounting system was enabled but was not as per theprescribed standards with respect to capturing the details if the log wastampered/disabled. However, for the period other than mentioned abovewe did not come across any instances of the audit trail feature beingtampered with.
b) The software used for computation of payroll where audit trail (edit log)facility was not enabled throughout the year at transaction, master anddatabase level.
As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 isapplicable from April 01, 2023, reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies(Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as per thestatutory requirements for record retention is not applicable for the financialyear ended March 31, 2024.
(C) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report as persection 197 (16) of the Act:
In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us,the remuneration paid by the Company to its director during the year is inaccordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act.
For M M Nissim & Co LLP
Chartered Accountants
Firm Registration No. 107122W/W100672
N. KashinathPartner
Membership. No. 036490UDIN: 24036490BKGTSP5785
Place: MumbaiDated: 29th May 2024