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Auditor's Report Year End : Mar '09
1.  We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of TV Today Network
 Limited (TVTN), as at March 31, 2009 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 companys
 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 (Auditors Report) Order, 2003, as
 amended by the Companies (Auditors Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004,
 issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (4A)
 of Section 227 of The Companies Act, 1956 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 further report that:
 
 i. (a) The company is maintaining proper records showing full
 particulars including quantitative details and situation of fixed
 assets.
 
 (b) The fixed assets are physically verified by the management
 according to a phased programme designed to cover all the items over a
 period of three years, which in our opinion, is reasonable having
 regard to the size of the company and the nature of its assets.
 Pursuant to the programme, a portion of the fixed assets has been
 physically verified by the management during the year and no material
 discrepancies between the book records and the physical inventory have
 been noticed.
 
 (c) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
 given to us, a substantial part of fixed assets has not been disposed
 of by the company during the year.
 
 ii. The Company does not have any inventory and hence clause (ii) of
 paragraph 4 of the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 as amended
 by the Companies (Auditors Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004, is not
 applicable.
 
 iii. (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, , hence clause (iii) (a) of paragraph 4
 of the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 as amended by the
 Companies (Auditors Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004, is not applicable
 
 (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, hence clause (iii) (a) of paragraph 4 of
 the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003 as amended by the
 Companies (Auditors Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004, is not applicable
 
 iv. 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 inventory, fixed assets and for the sale of goods and
 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.
 
 v. (a) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
 given to us, the particulars of contracts or arrangements referred to
 in Section 301 of the Act have been entered in the register required to
 be maintained under that section.
 
 (b) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
 given to us, the transactions made in pursuance of such contracts or
 arrangements and exceeding the value of Rupees Five Lakhs in respect of
 any party during the year have been made at prices which are reasonable
 having regard to the prevailing market prices at the relevant time.
 
 vi. 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.
 
 vii. In our opinion, the company has an internal audit system
 commensurate with its size and nature of its business.
 
 viii.The Central Government of India has not prescribed the maintenance
 of cost records under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 209 of
 the Act for any of the products of the company.  ix. (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, though there has been a slight delay
 in a few cases, which have not been serious.
 
 (b) According to the information and explanations given to us and the
 records of the company examined by us, the particulars of dues of
 sales-tax, income-tax, customs duty, wealth tax, excise duty and cess
 as at 31 March 2009 which have not been deposited on account of a
 dispute, are as follows -
 
 Name of        Nature          Amount
 the            of dues         (Rs.)
 statute
 
 Income-tax    Income          6,775,312
 Act, 1961     tax
 
 Period to which           Forum where
 the amount                the dispute is
 relates                   pending
 
 Assessment                CIT Appeals
 Year 05-06
 
 x. The company has no accumulated losses as at 31 March, 2009 and it
 has not incurred any cash losses in the financial year ended on that
 date or in the immediately preceding financial year.
 
 xi. 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.
 
 xii. The company has not granted any loans and advances on the basis of
 security by way of pledge of shares, debentures and other securities.
 
 xiii. The provisions of any special statute applicable to chit fund /
 nidhi / mutual benefit fund/societies are not applicable to the
 company.
 
 xiv. In our opinion, the company is not a dealer or trader in shares,
 securities, debentures and other investments.
 
 xv. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations
 given to us, the company has not given any guarantee for loans taken by
 others from banks or financial institutions during the year.
 
 xvi.  The company has not obtained any term loans.
 
 xvii. 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.
 
 xviii. 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.
 
 xix. The company has not issued any debentures and there are no
 debentures outstanding as at year end. Hence, clause (xix) of paragraph
 4 of the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2003, as amended by the
 Companies (Auditors Report) (Amendment) Order, 2004, is not
 applicable.
 
 xx. The Company has not raised any money by public issues during the
 year.
 
 xxi. 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 information 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.
 
 4.  Without qualifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note 15 on
 Schedule Q(B) to the financial statements.  Investments include Rs.
 11,000,000, being investment made by TVTN in Radio Today Broadcasting
 Limited (RTBL), a fellow subsidiary and Loans and Advances include Rs.
 551,226,607, being loan given by the Company to RTBL, including
 interest charged thereon. As mentioned in the note, based on an
 independent valuation carried out and a restructuring under
 examination, the Company is of the view that there is no permanent
 diminution in the carrying value of above investment and loan in RTBL
 and accordingly, no provisions therefor are considered necessary.
 
 The carrying value of Investment and Loan is dependant on above, (he
 outcome of which cannot be presently determined.
 
 5.  Further to our comments 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 31,2009 and taken on record by the Board of
 Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on March 31,2009
 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, 2009;
 
 (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.
 
                                          Sd/-
                                          USHA RAJEEV
 
                                          Partner
 
                                          Membership No. F-87191
 
                                          For & on behalf of
 Place: New Delhi                         PRICE WATERHOUSE
 Dated: June 18, 2009                     Chartered Accountants
 
 
Source : Religare Technova

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