1. Estimated amount of contracts net of advances remaining to be
executed on capital account Rs. 144,631 (''000s) [Previous Year Rs. 217,843
(''000s)].
2. Contingent Liabilities
Rs. ''000s
Particulars As at As at
March 31, March 31,
2011 2010
(a) In respect of Bank Guarantees issued
in favour of statutory authorities 4,986 7,945
(b) Counter Guarantee by the Company
issued in favour of Gujarat Industrial
Development 2,967 2,967
Corporation
(c) In respect of customs duty on
outstanding Export obligation against
advance licenses 123,765 171,981
acquired by the Company
(d) Claims against the Company not
acknowledged as debts in respect of
litigation/ claims 32,889 17,559
filed by customer/ vendor/ labour
(e) In respect of Indirect Tax matters
(Excise duty, Customs duty, Service tax
and Sales tax) 753,559 736,545
(f) In respect of Direct Tax matters 170,901 168,895
(g) Demand raised by Ministry of
Chemicals and Fertilisers, Department
of Chemicals and Petro 27,581 27,581
Chemicals for the difference between the
pooled price and the retention price on
the production of Chloroquine Phosphate
from 1979-1980 upto December 14,1988.
The Company has filed a writ petition in the Hon''able High Court of
Mumbai, challenging this demand.
Note: Future cash flows in respect of (d) to (g) above, if any, is
determinable only on receipt of judgement/ decisions pending with
relevant authorities.
3. Operating Lease
a) Assets taken on lease:
The Company has taken residential flats and office under
non-cancellable operating lease and lease rent amounting to Rs. 31,631
(''000s) [Previous Year f 44,008 (''000s)] has been debited to Profit and
Loss Account.
4. Segment Reporting
The Company has only one reportable business segment Agri Care as
primary segment. The Company has identified the Secondary Segment as
geographical segment based on the location of customers.
5. Related Party Transactions (as identified by the Management) (i)
Ultimate Holding Company : Bayer AG, Germany (ii) Parties under common
control :
- Bayer (China) Limited, China
- Bayer (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia
- Bayer A/S, Denmark
- Bayer Animal Health GmbH, Germany
- Bayer Australia Limited, Australia
- Bayer BioScience Private Limited, India
- Bayer Business and Technology Services LLC, U.S.A.
- Bayer Business Services GmbH, Germany
- Bayer Business Services Private Limited, India (from December 1,
2010)
- Bayer CropScience (China) Co. Limited, China
- Bayer CropScience (Pvt.) Limited, Pakistan
- Bayer CropScience AG, Germany
- Bayer CropScience K.K., Japan
- Bayer CropScience Limited, Bangladesh
- Bayer CropScience Limited, Korea
- Bayer CropScience OHQ (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia
- Bayer CropScience Pty Limited, Australia
- Bayer CropScience S.A., France (upto December 31, 2009)
- Bayer CropScience Inc., U.S.A.
- Bayer Direct Services GmbH, Germany
- Bayer Health Care AG, Germany
- Bayer HealthCare Aktiengesellschaft, Germany
- Bayer HealthCare LLC, U.S.A.
- Bayer HealthCare Limited, Hongkong
- Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., U.S.A.
- Bayer Industry Services GmbH, Germany
- Bayer Korea Limited, Korea
- Bayer Malibu Polymers Private Limited, India
- Bayer MaterialScience AG, Germany
- Bayer MaterialScience Limited, Hongkong
- Bayer MaterialScience Private Limited, India
- Bayer Middle East FZE, U.A.E.
- Bayer New Zealand Limited, New Zealand
- Bayer Parsian AG, Iran
- Bayer Pharmaceuticals Private Limited, India
- Bayer Public Limited Company, United Kingdom
- Bayer S.A., Brazil
- Bayer S.A.S., France (from January 1, 2010)
- Bayer South East Asia Pte Limited, Singapore
- Bayer Taiwan Company Limited, Taiwan
- Bayer Technology and Engineering (Shanghai) Co. Limited, China
- Bayer Technology Services, Germany
- Bayer Thai Company Limited, Thailand
- Bayer Turk Kimya Sanayi Limited Sti., Turkey
- Bayer Vietnam Limited, Vietnam
- Bayer Yakuhin Limited, Japan
- Bilag Industries Private Limited, India
- EuroServices Bayer GmbH, Germany
- Nunhems Seeds Private Limited, India
- PT Bayer Indonesia, Indonesia (iii) Key Management Personnel:
Mr. Stephan Gerlich Vice Chairman and Managing Director
Mr. Kaikobad B. Mistry Whole-time Director
6. Employee Benefits
The disclosures required as per Accounting Standard 15 - Employee
Benefits (revised 2005) are as under:
a) Brief description of the Plans:
The Company has various schemes for employee benefits such as provident
fund, superannuation, gratuity, pension and long service award. In case
of funded schemes, the funds are administered through trustees/
appropriate authorities. The Company''s defined contribution plans are
superannuation and provident fund since the Company has no further
obligation beyond making the contributions. The Company''s defined
benefit plans include gratuity and pension. The employees of the
Company are entitled to leave encashment, compensated absences and long
service award as per the Company''s policy.
7. The amount of excise duty disclosed as deduction from turnover is
the total excise duty for the year except the excise duty related to
the difference between the closing stock and opening stock and excise
duty paid but not recovered, which has been disclosed as excise duty
expense in the Schedule 19.
8. The Bayer Companies worldwide place great importance on protecting
the environment and conserving natural resources. Pursuant to the
cessation of manufacturing activities at Thane, till date the Company
has incurred Rs. 37,785 (''000s) during the year 2010-11 [Previous Year Rs.
54,904 (''000s)] towards Demolition and Remediation activities. These
ongoing activities will allow the Thane Site to be left in a safe state
with human health and environmental risks mitigated to generally
accepted levels in industrialised countries.
9. The Company has entered into a non-binding and exclusive
arrangement with Agile Real Estate Private Limited (AREPL) vide
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) dated March 31, 2011 for the
proposed sale of Land and Buildings situated at Village Balkum, Thane
at a consideration to be finalised at a future date. The net book value
of the Land and Buildings as on March 31, 2011 is Rs. 915,389 (''000s) and
Rs. 128,716 (''000s), respectively.
The Company has received an earnest amount of Rs. 2,600,000 (''000s) for
this exclusive arrangement, which is disclosed under the head Current
Liabilities. The conveyance, transfer, sale and possession of the
aforesaid Thane Land and Buildings will be completed at a future date
subject to relevant approvals, permissions from the government and
other statutory bodies, as may be deemed necessary and on receipt of
sale consideration on or before September 30, 2012.
10. Previous year figures have been re-grouped/ re-classified wherever
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