We have audited the accompanying financial statements ofGujarat Industries Power Company Limited ("the Company"),which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March, 2025, theStatement of Profit and Loss (including Other ComprehensiveIncome), the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Statementof Cash Flows for the year then ended and Notes to the FinancialStatements, including a summary of material accounting policiesand other explanatory information.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and accordingto the explanations given to us, the aforesaid financial statementsgive the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 (the"Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair viewin conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribedunder section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (IndianAccounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, ("Ind AS") andother accounting principles generally accepted in India, of thestate of affairs of the Company as at 31st March, 2025, the profitand total comprehensive income, changes in equity and its cashflows for the year ended on that date.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the financial statements in accordancewith the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under section
143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013. Our responsibilitiesunder those Standards are further described in the Auditor'sResponsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statementssection of our report. We are independent of the Company inaccordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute ofChartered Accountants of India together with the independencerequirements that are relevant to our audit of the FinancialStatements under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013and the Rules thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and theCode of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence we haveobtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for ouropinion on the Financial Statements.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professionaljudgment, were of most significance in our audit of the financialstatements of the current period. These matters were addressedin the context of our audit of the financial statements as a wholeand in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not providea separate opinion on these matters. We have determinedthe matters described below to be the key audit matters to becommunicated in our report:
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Key Audit Matter
Auditor's Response
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Litigations and Claims
(Refer to note 3(xvii), 4(i) and 44 to the financial statements)Litigation and claims are pending with multiple taxand regulatory authorities and there are claims fromvendors/suppliers and employees which have not beenacknowledged as debt by the Company.
In the normal course of business, financial exposures mayarise from pending legal/regulatory proceedings and fromabove referred claims not acknowledged as debt by theCompany. Whether a claim needs to be recognized asliability or disclosed as contingent liability in the financialstatements is dependent on a number of significantassumptions and judgments. The amounts involved arepotentially significant and determining the amount, if any,to be recognised or disclosed in the financial statements,is inherently subjective.
We have considered litigations and claims as Key AuditMatter as it requires significant management judgement,including accounting estimates that involves highestimation uncertainty.
Principal Audit Procedures
• Our audit procedures included understanding the currentstatus of disputed tax matters and other litigations andclaims and discussing selected matters with the entity'smanagement.
• Evaluation and testing of the design of internal controlsfollowed by the Company relating to litigations andclaims, open tax positions and process followed to decideprovisioning or disclosure as Contingent Liabilities;
• Critically assessing the entity assumptions and estimatesin respect of claims, included in the contingent liabilitiesdisclosed in the financial statements. Assessment of theprobability of negative result of litigation and the reliabilityof estimates of related obligation.
The Company's Management and Board of Directors isresponsible for the preparation of the other information. Theother information comprises the information included inManagement Discussion and Analysis, Board's Report includingAnnexure to that Board's Report, Business Responsibility andsustainability Report, Corporate Governance and Shareholder'sInformation, but does not include the financial statements andour auditor's report thereon. The Management Discussionand Analysis, Board's Report, Business Responsibility andsustainability Report, Corporate Governance and Shareholder'sInformation are expected to be made available to us after thedate of this auditor's report. Any material misstatement thereonpertaining to it, will be reported thereon.
Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover theother information and we do not express any form of assuranceconclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, ourresponsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so,consider whether the other information is materially inconsistentwith the financial statements, or our knowledge obtained duringour 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, weare required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in thisregard.
Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged withGovernance for the Financial Statements
The Company's Management and Board of Directors is responsiblefor the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Companies Act,2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation of these financialstatements that give a true and fair view of the financial position,financial performance including other comprehensive income,changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordancewith the Ind AS and other accounting principles generallyaccepted in India, including the accounting Standards specifiedunder Section 133 of the Act. This responsibility also includesmaintenance of adequate accounting records in accordancewith the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets ofthe Company 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 financial statements, management is responsiblefor assessing the Company's ability to continue as a goingconcern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to goingconcern and using the going concern basis of accounting unlessmanagement either intends to liquidate the Company or to ceaseoperations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so;
The Management and Board of Directors are also responsible foroverseeing the company's financial reporting process.
Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of Financial StatementsOur objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whetherthe financial statements as a whole are free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error and to issue anauditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assuranceis a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an auditconducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a materialmisstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraudor error and are considered material if, individually or in theaggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence theeconomic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financialstatements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exerciseprofessional judgment and maintain professional scepticismthroughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of thefinancial statements, whether due to fraud or error, designand perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, andobtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate toprovide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detectinga material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher thanfor one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion,forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or theoverride of internal control;
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant tothe audit in order to design audit procedures that areappropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsiblefor expressing our opinion on whether the Company hasadequate internal financial controls system in place and theoperating effectiveness of such controls;
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies usedand the reasonableness of accounting estimates and relateddisclosures made by 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 cast significantdoubt on the Company's ability to continue as a goingconcern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists,we are required to draw attention in our auditor's reportto the related disclosures in the Financial Statements or, if
such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Ourconclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up tothe date of our auditor's report. However, future events orconditions may cause the Company to cease to continue asa going concern;
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content ofthe Financial Statements, including the disclosures, andwhether the Financial Statements represent the underlyingtransactions and events in a manner that achieves fairpresentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the financialstatements that, individually or in aggregate, makes it probablethat the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeableuser of the financial statements may be influenced. We considerquantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning thescope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work;and (ii) to evaluate the effect of any identified misstatements inthe financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance of theCompany of which we are the independent auditors regarding,among other matters, the planned scope and timing of theaudit and significant audit findings, including any significantdeficiencies in internal control 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 them allrelationships and other matters that may reasonably be thoughtto bear on our independence, and where applicable, relatedsafeguards;
From the matters communicated with those charged withgovernance, we determine those matters that were of mostsignificance in the audit of the financial statements of the currentperiod and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe thesematters in our auditor's report unless law or regulation precludespublic disclosure about the matter or when, in extremelyrare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not becommunicated in our report because the adverse consequencesof doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh thepublic interest benefits of such communication.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order,2020 ("the Order"), issued by the Central Governmentof India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of theCompanies Act, 2013, we give in the "Annexure A", astatement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 ofthe Order, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we 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 required bylaw have been kept by the Company so far as it appearsfrom our examination of those books;
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss(including other comprehensive income), the Statementof Changes in Equity and the Cash Flow Statement dealtwith by this Report are in agreement with the relevantbooks of account;
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Financial Statementscomply with the Ind AS specified under Section 133 ofthe Act.
(e) On the basis of the written representations receivedfrom the directors as on 31st March, 2025 taken onrecord by the Management and Board of Directors,none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March,2025 from being appointed as a director in terms ofSection 164(2) of the Act;
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financialcontrols over financial reporting of the Company andthe operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to ourseparate report in "Annexure B";
(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 opinion and to the best of our informationand according to the explanations given to us, theremuneration paid by the Company to its directorsduring the year is in accordance with the provisions ofsection 197 of the Act; and
(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, inour opinion and to the best of our information andaccording to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pendinglitigations on its financial position in its financialstatements - Refer Note 44 to the financialstatements;
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contractsincluding derivative contracts for which there wereany material foreseeable losses;
iii. There has been no delay in transferring amounts,required to be transferred, to the Investor Educationand Protection Fund by the Company; except asum of Rs. 0.50 lakhs as on date, which is held inabeyance due to pending legal cases.
iv. i. The Management has represented that , to the
best of it's knowledge and belief, as disclosedin note no. 51 to the financial statements,
no funds have been advanced or loaned orinvested (either from borrowed funds or sharepremium or any other sources or kind of funds)by the Company to or in any other person(s)or entity(ies), including foreign entities("Intermediaries"), with the understanding,whether recorded in writing or otherwise,that the intermediary shall, whether, directlyor indirectly lend or invest in other persons orentities identified in any manner whatsoeverby or on behalf of the company ("UltimateBeneficiaries") or provide any guarantee,security or the like on behalf of the UltimateBeneficiaries;
ii. The Management has represented that, to thebest of it's knowledge and belief, as disclosedin note no. 52 to the financial statements, thatno funds have been received by the companyfrom any person(s) or entity(ies), includingforeign entities ("Funding Parties"), with theunderstanding, whether recorded in writing orotherwise, that the Company shall, whether,directly or indirectly, lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the FundingParty ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of theUltimate Beneficiaries; and
iii. Based on such audit procedures performedthat have been considered reasonable andappropriate in the circumstances, nothinghas come to our notice that has caused us tobelieve that the representations under sub¬clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11(e) contain anymaterial misstatement.
v. The final dividend paid by the Company duringthe year in respect of the same declared for theprevious year is in accordance with section 123 ofthe Companies Act 2013 to the extent it appliesto payment of dividend. As stated in note 20(g)to the financial statements, the Management andBoard of Directors of the Company have proposedfinal dividend for the year which is subject to theapproval of the members at the ensuing AnnualGeneral Meeting. The dividend declared is inaccordance with section 123 of the Act to theextent it applies to declaration of dividend.
vi. Based on our examination which included testchecks, the company has used an accountingsoftware for maintaining its books of accountwhich has a feature of recording audit trail (editlog) facility and the same has operated throughoutthe year for all relevant transactions recorded inthe software. Further, during the course of ouraudit we did not come across any instance of audittrail feature being tampered with. Additionally, theaudit trail has been preserved by the company asper the statutory requirements for record retention.
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