1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of Reliance Power
Limited (the Company) as at March 31, 2011 and the related Profit and
Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement for the year ended on that date
annexed thereto, which we have signed under reference to this report.
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company''s
Management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit,
2. We conducted our audit in accordance with the auditing standards
generally accepted in India. Those Standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and
disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
by Management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for
our opinion
3. As required by the Companies (Auditor''s Report) Order, 2003, as
amended by the Companies (Auditor''s Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004
(together the Order), issued by the Central Government of India in
terms of sub-section (4A) of Section 227 of The Companies Act, 1 956''
of India (the ''Act'') and on the basis of such checks of the books and
records of the Company as we considered appropriate and according to
the information and explanations given to us, we give in the Annexure a
statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order,
4. Further to our comments in the Annexure referred to in paragraph 3
above, we report that:
(a) We have obtained all the information and explanations which, to the
best of our knowledge and belief, were necessary for the purposes of
our audit;
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have
been kept by the Company so far as appears from our examination of
those books
(c) The Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement
dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of account;
(d) In our opinion, the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash
Flow Statement dealt with by this report comply with the accounting
standards referred to in sub-section (3C) of Section 211 of the Act;
(e) On the basis of written representations received from the
directors, as on March 31, 2011 and taken on record by the Board of
Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31, 2011
from being appointed as a director in terms of clause (g) of sub-
section (1) of Section 274 of the Act;
(f) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to
the explanations given to us, the said financial statements together
with the notes thereon and attached thereto give, in the prescribed
manner, the information required by the Act, and give a true and fair
view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in
India
(i) in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the
Company as at March 31, 2011
(ii) in the case of the Profit and Loss Account, of the profit for the
year ended on that date; and
(iii) in the case of the Cash Flow Statement, of the cash flows for the
year ended on that date
Annexure to Auditors'' Report
Referred to in paragraph 3 of the Auditors'' Report of even date to the
members of Reliance Power Limited on the financial statements for the
year ended March 31, 2011
1. (a) The Company is maintaining proper records showing full
particulars, including quantitative details and situation, of fixed
assets.
(b) The fixed assets of the Company have been physically verified by the
Management during the year and no material discrepancies between the
book records and the physical inventory have been noticed. In our
opinion, the frequency of verifcation is reasonable.
(c) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, a substantial part of fixed assets has not been disposed
off by the Company during the year.
2. (a) The Company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured, to
companies, firms or other parties covered in the register maintained
under Section 301 of the Act. (b) The Company has not taken any loans,
secured or unsecured, from companies, firms or other parties covered in
the register maintained under Section 301 of the Act,
3. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, there is an adequate internal control system commensurate
with the size of the Company and the nature of its business for the
purchase of fixed assets and for the sale of services. Further, on the
basis of our examination of the books and records of the Company, and
according to the information and explanations given to us, we have
neither come across nor have been informed of any continuing failure to
correct major weaknesses in the aforesaid internal control system.
4. According to the information and explanations given to us, there
have been no contracts or arrangements referred to in Section 301 of
the Act during the year to be entered in the register required to be
maintained under that Section. Accordingly, the question of commenting
on transactions made in pursuance of such contracts or arrangements
does not arise.
5. The Company has not accepted any deposits from the public within
the meaning of Sections 58A and 58AA of the Act and the rules framed
there under.
6. In our opinion, the Company has an internal audit system
commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
7. The Central Government of India pursuant to the Cost Accounting
Records (Electricity Industry) Rules, 2001 (''Rules'') has prescribed the
maintenance of cost records under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of
Section 209 of the Act to the Company, However, the Rules are not
applicable to the Company, as the Company has not started commercial
operations.
8. (a) According to the information and explanations given to us and
the records of the Company examined by us, in our opinion, the Company
is generally regular in depositing the undisputed statutory dues
including provident fund, investor education and protection fund,
employees'' state insurance, income-tax, sales-tax, wealth tax, service
tax, customs duty, excise duty, cess and other material statutory dues
as applicable with the appropriate authorities. Further, since the
Central Government has till date not prescribed the amount of cess
payable under section 441A of the Companies Act, 1 956, the question of
payment of cess by the company does not arise. There are no undisputed
amounts payable in respect of such applicable statutory dues as at
March 31, 2011 for a period of more than six months from the date they
became payable, (b) According to the information and explanations given
to us and the records of the Company examined by us, there are no dues
of income-tax, sales-tax, wealth-tax, service-tax, customs duty, excise
duty and cess which have not been deposited on account of any dispute
9. The Company has no accumulated losses as at March 31 2011 and it
has not incurred any cash losses in the financial year ended on that
date or in the immediately preceding financial year.
1 0. According to the records of the Company examined by us and the
information and explanation given to us, the Company has not defaulted
in repayment of dues to any financial institution or bank or debenture
holders as at the balance sheet date
11. The Company has not granted any loans and advances on the basis of
security by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other securities.
1 2. The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit fund /
nidhi / mutual benefit fund/ societies are not applicable to the
Company.
1 3. In our opinion, the Company is not a dealer or trader in shares,
securities, debentures and other investments,
14. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
given to us, the terms and conditions of the guarantees given by the
Company, for loans taken by others from banks or financial institutions
during the year, are not prejudicial to the interest of the Company.
15. In our opinion, and according to the information and explanations
given to us, on an overall basis, the term loans have been applied for
the purposes for which they were obtained except 4.928% Convertible
Bonds (FCCBs) of Rs. 1,022,485,000 which, as explained, pending
utilisation are nvested in the money market instruments and fixed
deposits,
1 6. On the basis of an overall examination of the balance sheet of the
Company, in our opinion and according to the information and
explanations given to us, there are no funds raised on a short-term
basis which have been used for long-term investment
17. The Company has not made any preferential allotment of shares to
parties and companies covered in the register maintained under Section
301 of the Act during the year.
18. The Company has not issued any debentures
19. The Company has not raised any money by public issues during the
year. The Management has disclosed the end use of monies during the
year, out of public issue raised in the earlier year (Refer Note 6 of
Schedule 1 5 of the financial statements) which has been verified by
us.
20. During the course of our examination of the books and records of
the Company, carried out in accordance with the generally accepted
auditing practices in India, and according to the nformation and
explanations given to us, we have neither come across any instance of
fraud on or by the Company, noticed or reported during the year, nor
have we been informed of such case by the Management.
21. Clause (ii) of paragraph 4 of the Companies (Auditor''s Report)
Order 2003, as amended by the Companies (Auditor''s Report) (Amendment)
Order, 2004, is not applicable in the case of the Company for the year,
since in our opinion there is no matter which arises to be reported in
the aforesaid order.
For Chaturvedi & Shah For Price Waterhouse
Chartered Accountants Chartered Accountants
Firm Regn. No: 1 01 720 W Firm Regn. No: 3011 1 2E
CD. Lala Partha Ghosh
Partner Partner
Membership No. 35671 Membership No. 55913
Place : Mumbai Place : Brussels
Date : May 27, 2011 Date : May 27, 2011
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