1. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
i. Guarantees issued by bankers outstanding at the end of accounting
year Rs. 21,075,362/- (Previous year Rs. 125,486,322/-).
ii. Letter of Credit issued by bankers on behalf of the Company
outstanding at the end of accounting year Rs. 24,172,309/- (Previous
year Nil).
iii. Corporate Guarantee Rs. 621,600,000/- [USD 14 million (net of
payment of USD 29.50 million)] given to ICICI Bank, Bahrain on behalf
of NIIT (USA) Inc., USA (Previous year Rs. 944,470,800/- [USD 21
million (net of payment of USD 22.5 million)]).
iv. Corporate Guarantee Nil (Previous year Rs. 682,552,000/- [GBP 10
million (loan outstanding GBP 9.40 million)]) given to ICICI Bank UK
PLC, UK on behalf of NIIT (USA) Inc., USA.
v. Corporate Guarantee Rs. 732,600,000/- [USD 16.50 million (loan
outstanding USD 15 million)] (Previous year Nil) given to ICICI Bank UK
PLC, UK on behalf of NIIT (USA) Inc.,USA.
vi. Stand by Letter of Credit of Rs. 244,200,000/- [USD 5.50 million]
(Previous year Rs. 247,361,400/- [USD 5.50 million]) from BNP Paribas
in favor of Bank of West, USA on behalf of Element K Corporation, USA.
vii. Security given to Indian Overseas Bank against Working Capital
limits on behalf of Evolv Services Limited Rs. 10,000,000/- (Previous
year Rs. 10,000,000/-) [Amount outstanding at year end Rs. 9,772,649/-
(Previous year Rs. 9,472,172/-)], NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and
Insurance Training Limited Rs.10,000,000/- (Previous year
Rs.10,000,000/-) [Amount Outstanding at year end Nil (Previous year
Nil)] and Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited of Rs.10,000,000/-
(Previous year Rs.7,000,000/-) [Amount Outstanding at year end Rs.
8,007,721/- (Previous year Rs. 6,443,889/-)].
viii. Claims against the Company not acknowledged as debts Rs.
14,200,000/- (Previous year Rs. 13,200,000/-)
ix. Andhra Pradesh works contract tax Rs. 91,836,398/- (Previous year
Rs. 80,137,287/-). Management does not foresee any financial
implication based on the advice of the legal consultant.
x. Service Tax demand amounting to Rs. 104.89 Lacs (Previous year Rs.
104.89 Lacs) and equal amount of penalty i.e. Rs. 104.89 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 104.89 Lacs) raised by Commissioner of Service Tax, Delhi.
Management does not foresee any financial implication based on the
advice of the legal consultant.
xi. Income Tax demand for Rs. 1,576 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 721 Lacs).
Management does not foresee any financial implication based on the
advice of the legal consultant.
xii. Service Tax liability on rental of immovable properties amounting
to Rs. 12,068,234/- (Previous year Nil).
2. During the previous financial year, the Company had received Show
Cause Notices u/s 263 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 issued by the
Commissioner of Income Tax for the Assessment years 1999-00 to 2005-06
,who later issued Orders directing the Assessing Officer for
re-assessment on certain items. The quantum of Income Tax demand, if
any, has neither been quantified nor ascertained and thus,
indeterminable at this stage. These orders have been challenged by the
Company in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, which has directed the
Income Tax department to produce all records related to assessment for
perusal of the Tribunal. Against the order of the Tribunal, the Income
Tax Department has preferred writ petition in the High Court. The
matter is under adjudication in the High Court. Based on legal opinion,
the Company is confident that appeals so filed shall be decided in its
favour.
3. Estimated amount of contracts remaining to be executed on capital
account (net of advances) not provided for Rs. 281,987,505/- (Previous
year Rs. 15,804,313/-).
4. Certain common resources are shared by the Company and NIIT
Technologies Limited (NTL). This resulted in the Company recovering Rs.
10,706,565/- (Previous year Rs. 3,856,927/-) from NTL and NTL
recovering Rs. 9,393,306/- (Previous year Rs. 9,598,975/- ) from the
Company which have been included/ netted off against relevant head in
the Profit and Loss Account viz., Personnel, Administration & Others
and Marketing expenses.
5. DETAILS OF SECURITY GIVEN AGAINST LOANS
i). Working Capital Limits of the Company and sub limits of certain
subsidiaries are secured by hypothecation of stocks and book debts of
the Company. The Company and the subsidiaries have utilised the cash
credit (fund-based) limits to the extent of Nil (Previous year Rs.
64,131,867/-) and Rs. 17,780,370/- (Previous year Rs. 15,916,061/-)
respectively as at year end.
ii). 12% Non Convertible Debentures issued to Life Insurance
Corporation of India and 11.25% Non Convertible Debentures issued to
Indian Overseas Bank are secured by way of first charge on pari-passu
basis on the immovable and movable fixed assets of the Company. The
Company had maintained 100 % asset cover sufficient to discharge the
principal amount at all times during the financial year 2010-11 for
these debentures.
iii). Rupee Term Loan is secured by exclusive charge by hypothecation
of specific movable fixed assets and receivables/ deferred recoverable
relating to specific school projects.
iv). Vehicle loans from banks are secured by way of hypothecation of
the vehicles financed.
6. Interest received is gross of tax deducted at source of Rs.
8,359,983/- (Previous year Rs. 13,902,514/-).
7. Expenses during the year are net of recoveries towards common
services from domestic subsidiaries amounting to Rs. 14,989,137/-
(Previous year Rs. 14,635,499/-).
8 The Course Execution Charges include payments to licensees,
business partners, channel partners and other agencies for execution of
education and training business.
9. DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS
During the Current year, loss of Nil (Previous year Rs. 88.82 Lacs) has
been debited to Revenue account on maturity of the designated forward
covers.
b. Mark to Market gain/ (loss) on undesignated forward covers
amounting to Nil [Previous year Rs. 3.35 Lacs] has been recognised as
gain/ (loss) on exchange fluctuation in the Profit and Loss Account.
10. EMPLOYEES STOCK OPTION SCHEME
During the year 2005-06, the Company had established NIIT Employee
Stock Option Plan 2005 “ESOP 2005” and the same was approved at the
General Meeting of the Company held on May 18, 2005. The plan was set
up so as to offer and grant, for the benefit of employees (excluding
promoters) of the Company, who are eligible under “Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (Employee Stock Option Scheme and
Employee Stock Purchase Scheme) Guidelines, 1999”, options of the
Company in aggregate up to 1,925,000 options under ESOP 2005, in one or
more tranches, and on such terms and conditions as may be fixed or
determined by the Board, in accordance with the provisions of law or
guidelines issued by the relevant authorities in this regard. As per
the plan, each option is exercisable for one equity share of face value
of Rs. 2/- each (Rs. 10/- each pre bonus and split) fully paid up on
payment to the Company, for such shares, at a price to be determined in
accordance with ESOP 2005. ESOP information is given for the number of
shares after sub-division and Bonus issue
11. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
A) Defined Contribution Plans
Company makes contribution towards Provident Fund, Superannuation Fund
and Pension Scheme to the defined contribution plans for eligible
employees.
B) Defined Benefit Plans I. Provident Fund
In respect of Companys obligation towards guaranteed returns on
Provident Fund Contributions made to the NIIT Limited Employees
Provident Fund Trust, as the overall interest earnings and cumulative
surplus are more than the statutory requirements, there is no liability
of employer for the year ended March 31, 2011. Therefore, no additional
provision for the year has been recommended by the actuary.
vi) Investment details of Plan Assets:
The plan assets are maintained with Life Insurance Corporation of India
Gratuity Scheme. The details of investment maintained by Life Insurance
Corporation of India are not available with the Company and have not
been disclosed.
The expected return on plan assets is determined considering several
applicable factors mainly the composition of plan assets held, assessed
risk of asset management, historical result of the return on plan
assets.
C) The Company has accounted for unclaimed employee related
reimbursements in respect of earlier years, aggregating to Nil
(Previous year Rs. 327.23 Lacs), based on maximum possible liability
payable by the Company in this respect.
12. DETAILS RELATING TO OPENING STOCK, PURCHASES, REVENUE AND CLOSING
STOCK
a) The Company is engaged inter-alia in the production and development
of computer software and rendering services. The production and sale of
such software cannot be expressed in generic unit. Hence, it is not
possible to give quantitative details as required under paragraph 3 of
Part II of Schedule VI of the Companies Act, 1956.
The Company deals in a number of software and hardware items whose cost
and selling price vary for different items. The revenue from the
different kind of software and their related costs individually
constitute less than 10% of the turnover and costs of the Company
respectively. Accordingly, no quantitative information relating to
software and hardware traded is being given.
ii) Education and training material:
* Sales quantity has been adjusted for shortage/ excesses during the
year.
**Includes Inventory in electronic form.
Quantitative information in respect of technical information and
reference material is not being given separately as the related revenue
and costs are less than 10% of total revenue and costs of the Company.
c) Revenue includes income from services rendered Rs. 3,190,212,261/-
(Previous year Rs. 2,976,597,336/-).
13. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS AS PER ACCOUNTING STANDARD 18 A. Related
party relationship where control exists:
Subsidiaries
1. NIIT Online Learning Limited
2. Scantech Evaluation Services Limited
3. Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited
4. NEO Multimedia Limited (Formerly known as NIIT Multimedia Limited)
(upto March 30, 2011)
5. NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited
6. NIIT Institute of Process Excellence Limited
7. Evolv Services Limited
8. NIIT Limited, UK
9. NIIT Antilles N V, Netherlands Antilles
10. NIIT Malaysia Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia
11. NIIT GC Limited (formerly NIIT TVE Limited), Mauritius
12. NIIT China (Shanghai) Limited, Shanghai
13. NIIT Wuxi Service Outsourcing Training School
14. Chongqing NIIT Education Consulting Limited, China
15. Wuxi NIIT Information Technology Consulting Limited
16. Changzhou NIIT Information Technology Consulting Limited
17. Su Zhou NIIT Information Technology Consulting Limited (w.e.f.
April 28, 2010)
18. PCEC NIIT Institute of Information Technology, Shanghai (Liquidated
in April, 2010)
19. NIIT (USA) Inc., USA
20. NIIT Ventures Inc., USA
21. Element K Corporation, USA
22. Element K India Private Limited, India
23. Element K (UK) Limited, United Kingdom
24. Element K Inc., Canada
25. PT NIIT Indonesia, Indonesia (Under liquidation)
B. Other related parties with whom the Company has transacted
a) Associates (Parties in which Company has substantial interest)
1. NIIT Technologies Limited
2. NIIT GIS Limited
3. NIIT Smart Serve Limited
b) Key Managerial Personnel
1. Rajendra S Pawar (Chairman and Managing Director)
2. Vijay K Thadani (Chief Executive Officer and Whole-time Director)
3. P Rajendran (Chief Operating Officer and Whole-time Director)
c) Relatives of Key Managerial Personnel
1. Renuka Thadani (Wife of Vijay K Thadani)
2. Veena Oberoi (Sister of Vijay K Thadani)
d) Parties in which the Key Managerial Personnel of the Company are
interested
1. NIIT Institute of Information Technology
2. NIIT Education Society
3. Pace Industries Private Limited
4. NIIT Network Services Limited
Notes:
1. Previous year figures are given in parenthesis.
2. Includes Purchase of Goods from:
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 194.94 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 158.10 Lacs )
- Evolv Services Limited Rs. 53.96 Lacs (Previous year Nil )
- Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited Rs. 36.00 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
3. Includes Sale of Goods to:
- NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 28.66 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 24.59 Lacs )
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Rs.
15.38 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
- NIIT Technologies Limited Rs. 18.90 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
4. Includes Purchase of Fixed Assets from:
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 216.39 Lacs (Previous year Nil )
- Evolv Services Limited Rs. 6.40 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 54.60 Lacs )
- NIIT Technologies Limited Rs. 5.55 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
5. Includes Sale of Fixed Assets to:
- NIIT Technologies Limited Rs. 0.62 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
- NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 41.90 Lacs (Previous
year Nil )
6. Includes Rendering of Services to:
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 4,469.35 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 3,305.32 Lacs )
- NIIT Antilles N V, Netherlands Antilles Rs.1,866.37 Lacs (Previous
year Rs.944.94 Lacs )
- NIIT Limited, UK Rs. 386.06 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 329.35 Lacs )
- NIIT Technologies Limited Rs. 262.90 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 54.47
Lacs )
- Evolv Services Limited Rs. 4.92 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 8.60 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Rs.
102.13 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 79.00 Lacs)
7. Includes Receiving of Services from:
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 246.20 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 150.23 Lacs )
- NIIT GIS Limited Rs. 3.73 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 5.94 Lacs)
- NIIT Smart Serve Limited Rs. 205.53 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 75.35
Lacs )
- Evolv Services Limited Rs. 137.31 Lacs (Previous year Rs.133.30 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Rs.
104.85 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 57.81 Lacs)
- NIIT Limited, UK Rs. 488.95 Lacs (Previous year Nil )
8. Includes Recovery of Expenses from:
- Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited Rs. 23.68 Lacs (Previous year Rs.
17.70 Lacs)
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 10.78 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 37.09 Lacs )
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Rs.
116.21 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 103.27 Lacs)
- NIIT Technologies Limited Rs. 107.07 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 38.57
Lacs )
- NIIT GIS Limited Rs. 18.08 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 11.49 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 93.54 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 35.26 Lacs )
- NIIT Institute of Process Excellence Limited Rs. 6.00 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 23.74 Lacs )
- NIIT Limited, UK Nil (Previous year Rs. 2.09 Lacs )
9. Includes Recovery of Expenses by:
- NIIT Technologies Limited Rs. 93.93 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 95.99
Lacs )
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 30.25 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 38.86 )
10. Represents Investments made in:
- NEO Multimedia Limited Rs. 70.00 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 290.00 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Nil
(Previous year Rs. 405.00 Lacs )
- Evolv Services Limited Nil (Previous year Rs.181.87 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Process Excellence Limited Rs. 150.00 Lacs
(Previous year Rs. 750.00 Lacs )
11. Loans Given relates to:
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Nil
(Previous year Rs. 125.00 Lacs)
- NEO Multimedia Limited Rs. 32.00 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 2,511.85 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 241.10 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 200.00 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 1,890.00 Lacs )
- Evolv Services Limited Rs. 155.00 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 13.00 Lacs
)
12. Loans Given Received Back relates to:
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 2,158.88 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 3,361.40 Lacs)
- NIIT Education Society Rs. 35.00 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
- NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 4,603.00 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 1,850.00 Lacs)
- Evolv Services Limited Nil (Previous year Rs. 115.00 Lacs )
13. Loans/ Inter Corporate Deposits Taken from:
- Scantech Evaluation Services Limited Rs. 1,155.00 Lacs (Previous year
Rs. 980.00 Lacs)
14. Repayment of Loans/ Inter Corporate Deposits taken:
- Scantech Evaluation Services Limited Rs. 915.00 Lacs (Previous year
Rs. 916.00 Lacs)
15. Interest Income from:
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 158.84 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 300.25 Lacs)
- Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited Rs. 43.44 Lacs (Previous year Rs.
43.44 Lacs)
- NEO Multimedia Limited Rs. 1.26 Lacs (Previous year Nil)
- NIIT Education Society Rs. 0.55 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 2.80 Lacs)
- Evolv Services Limited Rs. 1.23 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 10.93 Lacs )
- NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 496.32 Lacs (Previous
year Rs 629.57 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Rs.
30.60 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 18.60 Lacs)
16. Interest Expenditure includes:
- Scantech Evaluation Services Limited Rs. 116.88 Lacs (Previous year
Rs. 127.70 Lacs )
17. Includes transactions for the year with:
- Rajendra S Pawar Rs. 100.43 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 90.06 Lacs)
- Vijay K Thadani Rs. 163.20 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 90.37 Lacs )
- P Rajendran Rs. 108.38 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 126.85 Lacs )
18. Other Expenses includes:
- Renuka Thadani Rs. 7.20 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 6.24 Lacs )
- Veena Oberoi Rs. 4.32 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 4.32 Lacs )
- Pace Industries Private Limited Rs. 4.32 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 4.32
Lacs )
- Donation to NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 715.00 Lacs
(Previous year Rs. 150.00 Lacs)
19. Other Income includes:
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 67.77 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 67.96 Lacs)
- NIIT Antilles N V, Netherlands Antilles Rs. 856.13 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 774.26 Lacs )
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Rs.
170.37 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 133.32 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Information Technology Rs. 8.68 Lacs (Previous year
Nil)
- NIIT Institute of Process Excellence Limited Rs.78.88 Lacs (Previous
year Rs. 42.19 Lacs )
- NIIT Limited, UK Rs. 9.46 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 10.11 Lacs )
- Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited Rs. 10.14 Lacs (Previous year
Rs.8.33 Lacs)
20. Dividend Income includes:
- Scantech Evaluation Services Limited Rs. 832.44 Lacs (Previous year
Rs. 782.89 Lacs)
21. Guarantees and Collaterals:
- Element K Corporation, USA Nil (Previous year Rs. 1,124.37 Lacs)
- NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance Training Limited Nil
(Previous year Rs. 100.00 Lacs)
- Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited Rs. 30.00 Lacs (Previous year Rs.
70.00 Lacs)
- NIIT (USA) Inc. Rs. 7,512.10 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 6,825.52 Lacs)
22. Commitment to support NIIT Institute of Information Technology to
meet the shortfall if any in their project.
22. During the Previous year, the Company had disposed off its holding
in Aesthetic Technologies Private Limited of 190,627 fully paid up
Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each for a consideration of Rs. 115,000/-. An
equivalent amount of gain was recognised as the investment was fully
provided for in the earlier years.
23. During the year the Company has paid additional loan of Rs. 200
lacs to NIIT Institute of Information Technology. Subsequent to the
Bank withdrawing the subordination requirements on the loan, NIIT
Institute of Information Technology has repaid total outstanding loan
amounting to Rs. 4,603 Lacs during the year and there is no loan
outstanding as on March 31, 2011.
24. During the year, the Company has made further investment in the
equity shares of Rs. 10 each in its subsidiary companies as follows:
(i) Rs. 150 Lacs in NIIT Institute of Process Excellence Limited,
(ii) Rs. 70 Lacs in NEO Multimedia Limited (Formerly known as NIIT
Multimedia Limited)
25. During the year, the Company has disposed off its complete holding
of 10,950,000 fully paid up Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each in its
wholly owned subsidiary NEO Multimedia Limited (Formerly known as NIIT
Multimedia Limited ) for a consideration of Rs. 317,584,207/- (Net of
Expenses). The amount of Rs. 208,084,207/- has been recognised as
Profit on Sale of Investment which has resulted in an increase in
profit before tax during the year. After this disposal NEO Multimedia
Limited ceases to be a subsidiary of the Company.
26. During the year the company has contributed an amount of Rs. 720
Lacs towards donations including Rs. 715 Lacs (Previous year Rs. 150
Lacs) in the corpus of NIIT Institute of Information Technology, a
society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 which is
within the overall limits approved by the shareholders. This amount has
been as shown as an exceptional item in the Profit and Loss Account.
27. During the Financial year, the Company has been granted approval
for setting up unit in Special Economic Zone (‘SEZ). The Company has
subsequently started the process of setting up its unit in SEZ, few
employees have been recruited in the SEZ unit who are undergoing
training. As at end of the financial year, no production or development
activities have started in SEZ unit. Production, development and
revenue generating activities are expected to start in the first
quarter of Financial year 2011-12.
29. The Company had acquired control in Evolv Services Limited
(“Evolv”) as on January 15, 2008 and was also issued 359,780 warrants,
each warrant entitles to acquire one share of Evolv Services Limited at
an exercise price of Rs. 50.55 per share aggregating to Rs.
18,186,879/-. During the Previous year, Company had exercised these
warrants to acquire equal number of shares in the share capital of
Evolv, this had resulted
into a further increase in proportion of shareholding to 61.15%. The
promoters of Evolv have an option to sell (“Put Option”) their
remaining shareholding to NIIT Limited at the put option price
determined by a price valuer as on the date of exercise of the put
option. Similarly, NIIT Limited has the option to purchase (“Call
Option”), 83% of the remaining shares of the Sellers shareholding at a
call option price determined by price valuer as on the date of exercise
of the call option.
30. The Company internally develops software tools, platforms and
content/ courseware. The management estimates that this would result in
enhanced productivity and offer more technology based learning
products/ solutions to the customers in future. The Company is
confident of its ability to generate future economic benefits out of
the abovementioned assets. The costs incurred during the year towards
the development are as follows:
31. The Companys wholly owned domestic subsidiary Scantech Evaluation
Services Limited has declared dividend amounting to Rs. 832.44 lacs
(Previous year Rs. 782.89 Lacs) in respect of which dividend
distribution tax would be paid by the subsidiary. In terms of
provisions of sub-section 1A of section 115O of the Income Tax Act
1961, dividend distribution tax payable by the Company, is net of the
dividend distribution tax to be paid by the subsidiary company
amounting to Rs. 135.04 lacs (Previous year Rs. 133.05 lacs).
32. SEGMENT INFORMATION
Primary Segment Information – Business Segment
The sub businesses are fully aligned to global learning business of the
Company and the same are being viewed by the management as a single
primary segment, i.e. learning business segment.
Secondary Segment Information – Geographical
33. TAXATION:
(a) Upon finalisation of Income Tax Return of Assessment year 2010-11
an amount of Rs. 31.54 Lacs (Net) has been charged during the year.
(b) During the year the Company has provided for an amount of Rs. 15
Lacs pertaining to Tax Payable as per Norwegian Tax Laws and a similar
amount has been reduced from the Tax Expense as the same shall be
claimed as a relief under section 90 of the Indian Income Tax Act,
1961.
i. Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities are being offset as they relate
to taxes on income levied by the same governing taxation laws.
ii. Deferred Ta x Asset on Long term capital loss has not been
considered in absence of virtual certainty of availability of Long term
capital gains.
34. a) Movement of Provision for Doubtful Debts
b) Certain overdue debtors balances aggregating to Rs. 6,768.29 Lacs
(Previous year Rs.1,509.10 Lacs) relating to government customers are
not provided for based on confirmations/ acknowledgment for services
rendered, with the Company. Subsequent to the year end the Company has
received an amount of Rs. 2,473.53 Lacs out of the above balance. The
management is taking appropriate action for recovery of the amounts and
is confident of recovery of the same.
36. LEASES
a) Operating Leases
ii. All other significant operating leases entered into by the Company
after March 31, 2001, are cancelable on giving a notice of 1 to 6
months.
* Includes payment in respect of premises for office and employee
accommodation
** Includes payment in respect of computers, printers and
other equipments
b) Finance Leases
i. Assets acquired under finance lease comprise of Plant & Machinery,
Furniture & Fixtures and Software. There are no exceptional/
restrictive covenants in the lease agreements.
38. Previous year figures have been regrouped/ recast to conform to
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