We have audited the accompanying standalone financialstatements of Mahanagar Gas Limited (the “Company”), whichcomprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2025, and theStatement of Profit and Loss (including Other ComprehensiveIncome), the Statement of Cash Flows and the Statement ofChanges in Equity for the year ended on that date, and notesto the financial statements, including a summary of materialaccounting policies and other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according tothe explanations given to us, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements give the information required by the Companies Act,2013 (the “Act”) in the manner so required and give a true andfair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standardsprescribed under section 133 of the Act, (“Ind AS”) and otheraccounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state ofaffairs of the Company as at March 31, 2025, and its profit, totalcomprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equityfor the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the standalone financial statements inaccordance with the Standards on Auditing (“SA”s) specified under
section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standardsare further described in the Auditor’s Responsibility for the Audit ofthe Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We areindependent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethicsissued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (“ICAI”)together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to ouraudit of the standalone financial statements under the provisionsof the Act and the Rules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled ourother ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirementsand the ICAI’s Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidenceobtained by us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for ouraudit opinion on the standalone financial statements.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgment, were of most significance in our audit of the standalonefinancial statements of the current period. These matters wereaddressed in the context of our audit of the standalone financialstatements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, andwe do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. We havedetermined the matters described below to be the key auditmatters to be communicated in our report.
Key Audit Matter
Auditor’s Response
Slow moving/non-moving Projects lying in CapitalWork-in-Progress
(as described in note 2.2(b) of the material accounting policies,and note 3 for details and movement in capital work-in-progressin the standalone financial statements)
As at March 31, 2025, the Company has H974.15 crore of capitalwork-in-progress. The Company’s spending on capital work-in¬progress is material as indicated by the total value as at date. Theassessment and the timing of recognition of asset, as to whetherthe asset is in the location and condition necessary for it to becapable of operating in the manner intended by managementas set out in Ind AS 16, ‘Property, Plant and Equipment’, requiresjudgement and is dependent on the completion of projects afterobtaining all necessary approvals.
Our audit procedures performed among others included the
following:
• We assessed the design and implementation and tested theoperating effectiveness of key financial controls over themanagement review of capital work-in-progress.
• We obtained the list of projects where there is delay incapitalisation along with the reasons of the delay and theexpected capitalization dates from the management.
• For assets capitalized during the year, we considered theplanned vs actual capitalization dates to test the management’sassessment of expected capitalization dates.
The Company has slow moving / non-moving projects lying incapital work-in- progress amounting to H92.50 crore where thereis significant delay in capitalisation because of several externalfactors. As a result, this is considered as a key audit matter, withfocus on certain slow moving/non-moving projects, where therisk of assessment of impairment of such items was deemedhigher because of the complexity of the specific projects andthe delays involved.
• We tested management’s assessment of indicators ofimpairment of old projects and the estimated allowance createdand write offs made in the current year basis the policy on slowmoving and non-moving projects as approved by the Board. Wehave tested the appropriateness of categorizing the projects asslow and non-moving basis the expected period of completionas determined by the Company.
• For old projects capitalized during the year, we tested onsample basis to determine that the useful life of the asset wasadjusted to reflect the wear and tear of such assets.
• We evaluated the disclosures in the standalonefinancial statements.
• The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for theother information. The other information comprises theinformation included in the Director’s report, Businessresponsibility report, Management Discussion and Analysisand Corporate Governance report, but does not includethe consolidated financial statements, standalone financialstatements and our auditor’s report thereon.
• Our opinion on the standalone financial statements doesnot cover the other information and we do not express anyform of assurance conclusion thereon.
• In connection with our audit of the standalone financialstatements, our responsibility is to read the other informationand, in doing so, consider whether the other informationis materially inconsistent with the standalone financialstatements or our knowledge obtained during the course ofour audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
• If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude thatthere is a material misstatement of this other information,we are required to report that fact. We have nothing toreport in this regard.
The Company’s Board of Directors is responsible for the mattersstated in section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparationof these standalone financial statements that give a trueand fair view of the financial position, financial performanceincluding other comprehensive income, cash flows and changesin equity of the Company in accordance with the accounting
principles generally accepted in India, including Ind AS specifiedunder section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includesmaintenance of adequate accounting records in accordancewith the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of theCompany and for preventing and detecting frauds and otherirregularities; selection and application of appropriate accountingpolicies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonableand prudent; and design, implementation and maintenanceof adequate internal financial controls, that were operatingeffectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of theaccounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentationof the financial statements that give a true and fair view and arefree from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the standalone financial statements, managementand Board of Directors are responsible for assessing theCompany’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, asapplicable, matters related to going concern and using the goingconcern basis of accounting unless the Board of Directors eitherintend to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or hasno realistic alternative but to do so.
The Company’s Board of Directors is also responsible foroverseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance aboutwhether the standalone financial statements as a whole are freefrom material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and toissue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonableassurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee thatan audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detecta material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise
from fraud or error and are considered material if, individuallyor in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected toinfluence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis ofthese standalone financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exerciseprofessional judgment and maintain professional skepticismthroughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement ofthe standalone financial statements, whether due to fraudor error, design and perform audit procedures responsiveto those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficientand appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Therisk of not detecting a material misstatement resultingfrom fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, asfraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions,misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal financial controlsrelevant to the audit in order to design audit proceduresthat are appropriate in the circumstances. Under section143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for expressingour opinion on whether the Company has adequate internalfinancial controls with reference to standalone financialstatements in place and the operating effectivenessof such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies usedand the reasonableness of accounting estimates andrelated disclosures made by the management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use ofthe going concern basis of accounting and, based on theaudit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertaintyexists related to events or conditions that may castsignificant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue asa going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertaintyexists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’sreport to the related disclosures in the standalone financialstatements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, tomodify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on theaudit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’sreport. However, future events or conditions may cause theCompany to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and contentof the standalone financial statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the standalone financialstatements represent the underlying transactions andevents in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalonefinancial statements that, individually or in aggregate, makesit probable that the economic decisions of a reasonablyknowledgeable user of the standalone financial statementsmay be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality andqualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit workand in evaluating the results of our work; and (ii) to evaluatethe effect of any identified misstatements in the standalonefinancial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding,among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the auditand significant audit findings, including any significant deficienciesin internal financial controls that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statementthat we have complied with relevant ethical requirementsregarding independence, and to communicate with themall relationships and other matters that may reasonably bethought to bear on our independence, and where applicable,related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged withgovernance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the standalone financial statementsof the current period and are therefore the key audit matters.We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law orregulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when,in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a mattershould not be communicated in our report because the adverseconsequences of doing so would reasonably be expected tooutweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
1. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, based on our auditwe report that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information andexplanations which to the best of our knowledge andbelief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
b) In our opinion, proper books of account as requiredby law have been kept by the Company so far as itappears from our examination of those books.
c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit andLoss including Other Comprehensive Income, theStatement of Cash Flows and Statement of Changesin Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreementwith the relevant books of account.
vi. Based on our examination, which included test checks,the Company has used accounting software systemsfor maintaining its books of account for the financialyear ended March 31, 2025 which have the featureof recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the samehas operated throughout the year for all relevanttransactions recorded in the software systems.
Further, during the course of our audit we did not comeacross any instance of the audit trail feature beingtampered with, in respect of accounting software forwhich the audit trail feature was operating and theaudit trail has been preserved by the Company as perthe statutory requirements for record retention.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid standalone financialstatements comply with the Ind AS specified underSection 133 of the Act.
e) On the basis of the written representations receivedfrom the directors as on March 31, 2025 taken onrecord by the Board of Directors, none of the directors isdisqualified as on March 31, 2025 from being appointedas a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financialcontrols with reference to standalone financialstatements of the Company and the operatingeffectiveness of such controls, refer to our separateReport in “Annexure A”. Our report expresses anunmodified opinion on the adequacy and operatingeffectiveness ofthe Company’s internal financial controlswith reference to standalone financial statements.
g) With respect to the other matters to be included in theAuditor’s Report in accordance with the requirementsof section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinionand to the best of our information and according tothe explanations given to us, the remuneration paidby the Company to its directors during the year is inaccordance with the provisions of section 197 of the Act.
h) With respect to the other matters to be included inthe Auditor’s Report in accordance with Rule 11 ofthe Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, asamended in our opinion and to the best of our informationand according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact ofpending litigations on its financial position in itsstandalone financial statements - Refer Note 31.9to the standalone financial statements;
ii. The Company did not have any long-termcontracts including derivative contracts for whichthere were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts,required to be transferred, to the InvestorEducation and Protection Fund by the Company
iv. (a) The Management has represented that,
to the best of its knowledge and belief,other than as disclosed in the note 31.15(vi) to the standalone financial statementsno funds have been advanced or loanedor invested (either from borrowed fundsor share premium or any other sourcesor kind of funds) by the Company to or in
any other person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities (“Intermediaries”), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writingor otherwise, that the Intermediary shall,directly or indirectly lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the Company(“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf ofthe Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(b) The Management has represented, that, tothe best of its knowledge and belief, otherthan as disclosed in the note 31.15 (vii) tothe standalone financial statements, nofunds have been received by the Companyfrom any person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities (“Funding Parties”), withthe understanding, whether recorded inwriting or otherwise, that the Companyshall, directly or indirectly, lend or investin other persons or entities identified in anymanner whatsoever by or on behalf of theFunding Party (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) orprovide any guarantee, security or the likeon behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on the audit procedures performedthat have been considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothinghas come to our notice that has causedus to believe that the representationsunder sub-clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e), asprovided under (a) and (b) above, containany material misstatement.
v. The final dividend proposed in the previous year,declared and paid by the Company during theyear is in accordance with section 123 of theAct, as applicable.
The interim dividend declared and paid by theCompany during the year and until the date ofthis report is in accordance with section 123 ofthe Act, as applicable.
As stated in note 31.17 to the standalone financialstatements, the Board of Directors of the Companyhas proposed final dividend for the year whichis subject to the approval of the members at theensuing Annual General Meeting. Such dividendproposed is in accordance with section 123 of theAct, as applicable.
2. As required by the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order,2020 (“the Order”) issued by the Central Government interms of Section 143(11) of the Act, we give in “Annexure B”a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and4 of the Order.
For Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP
Chartered Accountants(Firm’s Registration No. 117366W/W-100018)
Pallavi Sharma
(Partner)
Place: Mumbai (Membership No. 113861)
Date: May 06, 2025 UDIN: 25113861BMJIBA5562