These Financial Statements which were approved by the Board of
Directors on 06th May 2011 and authenticated by the Auditors have
undergone a change due to appropriation of additional amount towards
proposed dividend for the shares allotted under Rights Issue which was
opened on March 24, 2011 and closed on April 07, 2011. The allotment
was made on April 19, 2011 on pari passu basis. The effect of this
change in Financial Statements is an increase in proposed dividend on
equity capital by Rs. 36.37 crore and dividend tax by Rs. 5.90 crore and
consequent decrease in Revenue reserve by Rs. 42.27 crore.
1.1 Capital:
The Authorised Capital of the Bank is Rs. 3000 crore.
The paid-up Capital of the Bank is Rs. 2021.14 crore i.e. increased from
Rs. 1771.14 crore to Rs. 2021.14 crore by issue of Perpetual Non-cumulative
Preference Shares [PNCPS] to the tune of Rs. 250 crore to Government of
India.
During the year, the Bank has come out with Right Issue of Rs. 2497.38
Crore comprising of 24,24,84,876 nos fully paid up equity shares of Rs.
10 each at premium of Rs. 93. The issue opened on 24th March 2011 and was
closed on 7th April 2011. A sum of Rs. 2025.68 Crore has been received
till 31st March 2011 and the same has been shown as Share Application
Money. The said money is parked in account with Reserve Bank of India
maintained by our Bank.
1.2 The proposed dividend of Rs. 137.41 crore on Equity Capital includes
Rs. 36.37 crore payable on shares allotted under Rights Issue, subject to
approval by AGM. Proposed dividend includes interim dividend paid Rs.
40.41 crore as declared by the Board on October 26, 2010, on the
existing Capital, on the relevant record date.
2. Balancing of Books / Reconciliation:
The reconciliation of the following items is in progress at various
stages on ongoing basis and consequential impact arising on account of
such reconciliation is unascertained.
- Inter Branch/Office Balance
- Accounts for Govt. transactions (Central & State)
- Inter Bank Accounts
- System Suspense Account
- Suspense Account
- Clearing & other Adjustment Accounts
The management is of the opinion that the overall impact, if any, on
the accounts will not be significant.
3. Income Tax / Deferred Tax:
3.1 Provision for Income Tax for the year is arrived at after due
consideration of relevant statutory provisions and judicial decisions
on disputed issues.
3.2 Other Assets [Schedule 11 (ii)] includes Rs. 601.64 crore (previous
year Rs. 1507.45 crore) towards disputed Income Tax paid by the Bank/
adjusted by the authorities. Provision for taxation is not considered
necessary by the Bank in respect of above disputed demands based on
various judicial decisions/ counsels opinion on such disputed issues.
3.3 Out of Rs. 601.64 crore of tax paid under dispute, disputes relating
to various Assessment Years, involving tax element of Rs. 21.46 crore
have been decided by the Appellate Authorities in favour of the Bank.
The appeal effect for the same is pending.
4. Share Issue Expenses:
Unamortized amount of Rs. 6.72 crore towards share issue expenses are
included in Other Assets.
5. Premises:
5.1 The premises of the Bank were revalued during financial year
2007-08 to reflect the market value as at March 31, 2008. The
additional appreciation amounting to Rs. 1565.97 crore have been credited
to Revaluation Reserve Account.
5.2 Premises owned by the Bank include properties costing Rs. 12.21 crore
revalued at Rs. 198.46 crore for which registration formalities are still
in progress.
7. Advances / Provisions:
7.1 Advances to units which have become sick including those under
nursing/ rehabilitation/ restructuring programme and other advances
classified as doubtful/ loss assets have been considered secured/
recoverable to the extent of estimated realizable value of securities
carrying first or second charge based on valuers assessment of
properties/ assets mortgaged to the Bank and other data available with
the Bank.
7.2 In the current year, in accordance with the guidelines issued by
Reserve Bank of India, the Bank has opted to utilize the Floating
Provision amounting to Rs. 312.42 crore (previous year Rs. 312.42 crore)
for netting off from Gross NPAs to arrive at Net NPAs.
7.3 Advances considered good and secured includes investment of Rs. 2000
crore in IBPCs governed by the Uniform Code Governing Inter Bank
Participations issued by IBA (Non Priority Sector) and investment in
IBPCs issued by RRBs aggregating Rs. 1440 crore (Priority Sector Advance/
Direct Agriculture).
8 Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme, 2008
In terms of the Reserve Bank of India Circular Ref RBI:2009-10/371/
DBOD.No.BP.BC.82/21.04.048/2009-10 dated March 30, 2010 and vide
Government of India Notification No.3/3/208-AC dated April 5, 2010,
Bank has extended the Debt Relief Scheme to all eligible farmers upto
June 30, 2010. Banks claim of Rs. 147.77 crore under Debt Relief Scheme
for the period ended 31/12/2009 is fully reimbursed during the month of
February 2011. Claim for the extended period i.e. 1/01/2010 to
30/06/2010 (grievance redressal up to 31/07/2010) of Rs. 54.26 crore is
pending to be lodged with Reserve Bank of India up to 30/06/2011 as per
Reserve Bank of India guidelines.
9. Upper Tier II Debt Instrument:
During the year, Bank has raised Upper Tier II Debt to the tune of
Rs.1300.00 crore (previous year Rs. 1000.00 crore) by issue of Unsecured
Redeemable Bonds under Upper Tier II Debt and the amount is shown in
Schedule 4 Borrowings of the Balance Sheet.
The above data has been compiled on the basis of guidelines of Reserve
Bank of India and estimates in respect of certain Off Balance Sheet
items, made by the management and relied upon by the Auditors. In
respect of Basel II, the system deficiencies/ data errors noticed /
reported were addressed at Central Office. Based on the extensive
exercise undertaken, Bank is of the view that, unrectified
deficiencies, if any, will not have a significant impact on the overall
reported Capital Adequacy.
Disclosures on Risk Exposure in Derivatives
iii) Qualitative Disclosures
. Risk Management Policy approved by the Board of Directors for the use
of derivative instruments to hedge/ trade is in place.
. The investment portfolio of the Bank consists of assets with
characteristics of fixed interest rate, zero coupon and floating
interest rates and is subject to interest rate risk. The Bank has also
Tier II bonds hedged for coupon swaps. The policy permits hedging the
interest rate risk on this liability as well.
. Policy for Forward Rate Agreement, Interest Rate Swaps, currency
futures and Interest Rate Futures for hedging the interest rate risk in
the investment portfolio and also for market making is in place.
. The risk management policies and major control limits like stop loss
limits, counter party exposure limits etc approved by the Board of
Directors are in place. The risks are monitored and reviewed regularly.
MIS reports are submitted periodically to Risk Management Committee.
a) Accounting policy. Hedge Positions
. Accrual on account of interest expenses/income on the IRS are
accounted and recognized as income/ expense.
. If the swap is terminated before maturity, the Marked to Market (MTM
loss/gain and accrual till such date are accounted as expense/income
under Interest paid/received on IRS.
Trading positions
. Currency future and Interest Rate Future are marked to market on
daily basis as per exchange guidelines of MCX-SX, NSE and United Stock
Exchange.
. MTM profit/loss are accounted by credit/debit to the margin account
on daily basis and the same is accounted in Banks Profit & Loss
Account on final settlement.
. Trading swaps are marked to market at frequent intervals. Any MTM
losses are booked and gains if any are ignored.
. Gains or losses on termination of swaps are recorded as immediate
income/expense under the above head.
(b) During the year, 219 accounts under SME were subjected to
Restructuring and the balance outstanding as on March 31, 2011 was Rs.
27.45 crore (Previous Year 349 accounts – Amount Rs. 170.95 crore).
12 b Gold Coins - During the year the Bank has sold 61.612 kgs. and the
total sale consideration is Rs. 1337 lacs. The Profit accrued on the sale
of Gold Coins is Rs. 46.00 lacs and is accounted for in Misc. Income.
12 c The Provisioning Coverage Ratio (PCR) of the Bank is 67.64%.
13. Disclosure of Penalties imposed by RBI
RBI has not imposed any penalty on the Bank under Section 46(4) of the
Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
14. The following information is disclosed in terms of Accounting
Standards issued by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India:
a) Accounting Standard - 15 (Revised)
During the year, the Bank reopened the pension option for such of its
employees who had not opted for the pension scheme earlier. In
accordance with RBI circular No.DBOD No. BP.BC.80/21.04.018/2010-11,
dated 09-02-2011, for second option for pension, one-fifth of
additional liability of Rs. 239.98 crore towards pension fund for 13494
serving employees and 100% of such liability of Rs. 569.62 crore for 4046
retired/separated employees aggregating to Rs. 809.60 crore has been
charged to Profit & Loss Account for the year. The unrecognized pension
liability for second option for pension for serving employees is Rs.
959.93 crore.
In accordance with RBI circular No.DBOD No. BP.BC.80/21.04.018/2010-11,
dated 09/02/2011, an amount of Rs. 55.40 crore has been charged to Profit
& Loss Account for the year, being 1/5th of additional Gratuity
liability due to amendment of Payment of Gratuity Act 1972. The
unrecognized Gratuity liability is Rs. 221.60 crore.
Had such a circular not been issued by the RBI, the profit of the bank
would have been lower by Rs. 1181.53 crore pursuant to application of the
requirements of AS-15.
b) Accounting Standard 17 – Segment Reporting
i) As per the revised guidelines of Reserve Bank of India, the Bank has
recognised Treasury Operations, Corporate/ Wholesale Banking, Retail
Banking and other Banking business as primary reporting segments. There
are no secondary reporting segments.
ii) Treasury Operations include dealing in Government and Other
Securities, Money Market operations and Forex operations.
iii) The Retail Banking Segment consists of all exposures upto a limit
of Rs. 5 crore (including Fund Based and Non Fund Based exposures)
subject to orientation, product, granularity criteria and individual
exposures.
iv) The Corporate/ Wholesale Segment consist of all advances to Trusts/
Partnership Firms Companies and statutory bodies, which are not
included under Retail Banking.
iv) The other Banking Segment includes all other Banking operations not
covered under the above three categories.
v) General Banking operations are the main resource mobilizing unit and
Treasury Segment compensates the former for funds lent to it by taking
into consideration the average funds used.
vii) Allocation of Costs:
a Expenses directly attributable to a particular segment are allocated
to the relative segment.
b Expenses not directly attributable to a specific segment are
allocated in proportion to the funds employed.
(b) Subsidiaries –
i) Cent Bank Home Finance Ltd.
ii) Centbank Financial Services Ltd.
(c) Associates –
(I) Regional Rural Banks -
i) Satpura Narmada Kshetriya Gramin Bank, Chhindwara
ii) Surguja Kshetriya Gramin Bank, Ambikapur
iii) Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank, Muzzaffarpur
iv) Vidharbha Kshetriya Gramin Bank, Akola
v) Ballia Etawah Gramin Bank, Ballia
vi) Hadoti Kshetriya Gramin Bank, Kota
vii) Uttarbanga Kshetriya Gramin Bank, Cooch Behar
(e) Accounting Standard – 28 –Impairment of Assets
A substantial portion of Banks assets comprise financial assets to
which Accounting Standard-28 on impairment of assets is not applicable.
In the opinion of the management, there is no material impairment on
Other Assets other than financial assets as at March 31, 2011,
requiring recognition in terms of the Standard.
17 As per the information compiled by the Management, the Vendors,
whose services are utilized and from whom purchases were made by the
Bank, are not registered under Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Development Act, 2006. This is relied upon by the Auditors.
18. Previous year figures have been re-grouped / re-classified wherever
considered necessary to conform to current years classification. |