We have audited the accompanying Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements of Empower India Limited ('the Company'),which comprise the balance sheet as at 31st March 2025, the statement of profit and loss (including other comprehensiveincome), the cash flow statement and the statement of changes in equity for the year the period 1st April 2024 to 31stMarch 2025 and notes to the standalone financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies andother explanatory information (hereinafter referred to as "Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, aforesaid Ind ASStandalone Financial Statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") in the manner sorequired and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under section 133of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, ("Ind AS") and otheraccounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company for the period 1st April 2024 to31st March 2025, the Loss (including other comprehensive income), changes in equity and its cash flows for the yearended 31st March, 2025.
Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audit of the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing(SAs) specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in theAuditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We areindependent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia (ICAI) together with the independence requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Ind AS Standalone FinancialStatements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethicalresponsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidencewe have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Ind AS Standalone FinancialStatements.
Key Audit Matters
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of theStandalone Financial Statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of theStandalone Financial Statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separateopinion on these matters.
Principal Audit Procedures
Our audit consisted testing of the design and operating effectiveness of the internal controls and substantive testing asfollows:
• We evaluated the design of internal controls relating to revenue recognition.
• We selected sample of Sales transactions and tested the operating effectiveness of the internal control relating torevenue recognition.
• We carried out a combination of procedures involving enquiry and observation, re performance and inspection.
• We have tested sample of Sale transactions to their respective customer contracts, underlying invoices and relateddocuments.
• We have performed cut-off procedures for sample of revenue transactions at year-end in order to conclude onwhether they were recognized in accordance with Ind-AS 115.
Other Information - Information other than financial statement and Auditor's Report- thereon
The Company's Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises theinformation included in the Annual report, but does not include the consolidated financial statements, standalonefinancial statements and our auditor's report thereon.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express anyform of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the standalone financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other informationand, in doing so, consider whether such other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements, or ourknowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information,we are required to communicate the matter to those charged with Governance. We have nothing to report in this regard.
Responsibility of Management for Ind AS 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 thepreparation of these Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position,financial performance, total comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows of the Company in accordance withthe Ind AS prescribed under section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015,as amended, and other accounting principles generally accepted in India.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of theAct for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selectionand 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 forensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of theInd AS Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whetherdue to fraud or error.
In preparing the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company's abilityto continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concernbasis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realisticalternative but to do so.
The Board of Directors are responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
Auditor's Responsibility for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Standalone Financial Statements as a whole arefree from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes ouropinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordancewith SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and areconsidered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economicdecisions 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 skepticismthroughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the Standalone Financial Statements, whether due to fraudor error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficientand appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting fromfraud 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 areappropriate in the circumstances. Under section 143(3)(i) of the Companies Act, 2013, we are also responsible forexpressing our opinion on whether the company has adequate internal financial controls system in place and theoperating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates andrelated disclosures made by management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on theaudit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may castsignificant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertaintyexists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the Standalone FinancialStatements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the auditevidence obtained up to the date of our auditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause theCompany to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the Standalone Financial Statements, including thedisclosures, and whether the Standalone Financial Statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a
manner that achieves fair presentation.
• Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the standalone financial statements that, individually or in theaggregate, makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the standalonefinancial statements may be influenced.
• We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and inevaluating the results of our work, and (ii) to evaluate the 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 ofthe audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify duringour audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethicalrequirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that mayreasonably 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 mostsignificance in the audit of the financial statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. Wedescribe these matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter orwhen, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report becausethe adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of suchcommunication.
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 ofIndia in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the 'Annexure A' statement on the mattersspecified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the 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 and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and beliefwere necessary for the purpose 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 appearsfrom our examination of those books;
c. The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss Including other comprehensive income, the Cash FlowStatement, and the statement of change in equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books ofaccount;
d. In our opinion, the aforesaid Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements comply with the Indian AccountingStandards specified under Section 133 of the Act read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, asamended.
e. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2025 taken on recordby the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2025 from being appointed asa director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act.
f. With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and theoperating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B". Our report expresses anunmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controlsover financial reporting.
g. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with the requirementsof section 197(16) of the Act, as amended in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to theexplanations given to us, no remuneration is paid or provided by the company to its directors during the year.
h. With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of theCompanies (Audit and Auditors) Rules 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according tothe explanations given to us:
i.
1. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations in its financial position in the Ind AS StandaloneFinancial Statements.
2. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivatives contracts for which there were anymaterial foreseeable losses.
3. The company was not required to transfer any amount to Investor Education and Protection Fund during the
financial year.
a) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (which arematerial either individually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested (either fromborrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the company to or in any otherperson(s) or entities, including foreign entities ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding whetherrecorded in writing or not that the intermediary shall whether directly or indirectly lend or invest in otherpersons or entities identified in any manner by or on behalf of the company (Ultimate Beneficiaries) orprovide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of ultimate beneficiaries.
b) The management has represented that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, no funds (which arematerial either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the company from any person(s) orentities including foreign entities ("Funding Parties") with the understanding that such company shallwhether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any mannerwhatsoever by or on behalf of the funding party (ultimate beneficiaries) or provide guarantee, security orthe like on behalf of the Ultimate beneficiaries.
c) Based on the audit procedures performed, we report that nothing has come to the notice that has causedus to believe that the representations given under sub-clause (i) and (ii) by the management contain anymaterial mis- statement.
d) Based on our examination, which included test checks, the Company has used accounting software formaintaining its books of account for the financial year ended 31st March, 2025 which has a feature ofrecording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevanttransactions recorded in the software. Further, during the course of our audit we did not come across anyinstance of the audit trail feature being tampered with.
As proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 is applicable from April 1, 2023, reportingunder Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 on preservation of audit trail as perthe statutory requirements for record retention is not applicable for the financial year ended 31st March,2025.
4. No dividend has been declared or paid by the Company during the year.
For Rishi Sekhri & Associates,
Chartered AccountantsFRN- 128216W
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Place: MumbaiDate: 28th May 2025