Notes to Accounts of Brookfield India Real Estate Trust

Mar 31, 2022

a) During the year ended March 31, 2021, The Trust has issued 164,619,801 Units as consideration to acquire these investments wherein the tradable REIT Units have been valued at ''275 each, aggregating amounting to ''45,270.44 million.

b) During the year ended March 31, 2022, The Trust has paid cash of ''13,153.83 million and issued 15,463,616 Units as consideration to acquire SDPL, Noida wherein the tradable REIT Units have been valued at ''294.25 each, aggregating amounting to ''17,704.00 million.

Repayment:

(a) Bullet repayment on the date falling at the end of 15 (fifteen) years from the first disbursement date.

(b) Early repayment option (wholly or partially) is available to the borrower (SPVs).

(c) The interest on these loan to subsidiaries is receivable on the last date of every financial quarter. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the interest with respect to the loans under the facility, shall accrue and become due and receivable only on availability of free cash flow on the interest payment date. In the event on any Interest payment date, the free cash flows are lower than the calculated interest (including any shortfall of past interest periods), the shortfall between the free cash flows and the calculated interest shall be accumulated and become due and receivable from and to the extent of free cash flows available on the subsequent interest payment dates.

(a) Terms/ rights attached to Units and accounting thereof

(i) The Trust has only one class of Units. Each Unit represents an undivided beneficial interest in the Trust. Each holder of Unit is entitled to one vote per unit. The Unitholders have the right to receive at least 90% of the Net Distributable Cash Flows of the Trust at least once in every six months in each financial year in accordance with the REIT Regulations. The Board of Directors of the Investment Manager approves distributions. The distribution will be in proportion to the number of Units held by the Unitholders. The Trust declares and pays distributions in Indian Rupees.

Under the provisions of the REIT Regulations, Brookfield India REIT is required to distribute to Unitholders not less than 90% of the Net Distributable Cash Flows of Brookfield India REIT for each financial year. Accordingly, a portion of the Unit Capital contains a contractual obligation of the Brookfield India REIT to pay to its Unitholders cash distributions. Hence, the Unit Capital is a compound financial instrument which contain both equity and liability components in accordance with Ind AS 32 - Financial Instruments: Presentation. However, in accordance with SEBI Circulars (No. CIR/IMD/DF/146/2016 dated December 29, 2016 and No. CIR/IMD/DF/141/2016 dated December 26, 2016) issued under the REIT Regulations, the Unit Capital has been presented as "Equity" in order to comply with the requirements of Section H of Annexure A to the SEBI Circular dated December 26, 2016 dealing with the minimum presentation and disclosure requirements for key financial statements. Consistent with Unit Capital being classified as equity, the distributions to Unitholders is also presented in Statement of Changes in Unitholders'' Equity when the distributions are approved by the Board of Directors of Investment Manager.

(ii) Initial Public Offering of 138,181,800 Units for cash at price of ''275 per Unit aggregating to ''38,000.00

million. Further preferential allotment of 16,821,856 Units for cash at price of ''294.25 per unit aggregating to ''4,949.83 was made during the year ended March 31, 2022. Refer note 28 for utilization of IPO proceeds. The preferential allotment was mainly used to fund the SDPL Noida acquisition.

Retained earnings

The cumulative gain or loss arising from the operations which is retained and is recognized and accumulated under the heading of retained earnings. At the end of the period, the profit/(loss) after tax is transferred from the Statement of Profit and Loss to the retained earnings account.

Brookfield India REIT is a business trust registered under SEBI REIT Regulations, 2014. Hence, the interest and dividend received or receivable by Brookfield India REIT from the SPVs is exempt from tax under section 10(23FC) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (Act). Further, any expenditure incurred in relation to earning the exempt income is not tax deductible in view of the provisions of section 14A of the Act.

The income of Brookfield India REIT, other than exempt income mentioned above, is chargeable to tax at the maximum marginal rates in force (for the year ended March 31, 2022: 42.744%; for the period ended March 31, 2021: 42.744%), except for the income chargeable to tax on transfer of short term capital assets under section 111A of the Act and long term capital assets under section 112 of the Act.

Level 2: The fair value of financial instruments that are not traded in an active market (for example, traded bonds, over-the counter derivatives) is determined using valuation techniques which maximize the use of observable market data and rely as little as possible on entity-specific estimates. If all significant inputs required to fair value an instrument are observable, the instrument is included in level 2.

19. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

There are no contingent liabilities as at March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021.

20. CAPITAL COMMITMENTS

There are no capital commitments as at March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021.

Level 3: If one or more of the significant inputs is not based on observable market data, the instrument is included in level 3.

There have been no valuation under Level 1 and Level 2. There has been no transfers into or out of Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy for the year ended March 31, 2022 and period ended March 31, 2021.

The Brookfield India REIT''s policy is to recognize transfers into and transfers out of fair value hierarchy levels as at the end of the reporting period.

ii) Measurement of fair values

The different levels of fair value have been defined below:

Level 1: Level 1 hierarchy includes financial instruments measured using quoted prices for instance listed equity instruments, traded bonds and mutual funds that have quoted price.

22. FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENTi. Risk management framework

The Board of directors of the Manager of the Trust has overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of the Trust''s risk management framework. The Trust''s risk management framework are established to identify and analyse the key risks faced by the Trust, to set appropriate risk limits and controls and to monitor risks and adherence to limits. Risk management framework and systems are reviewed regularly to reflect changes in market conditions and the Trust''s activities.

The Board of directors of the Manager of the Trust, oversees compliance with the Trust''s risk management framework and procedures, and reviews the adequacy of the risk management framework in relation to the risks faced by the Trust. The Audit committee is assisted in its oversight role by internal audit. Internal audit undertakes both regular and ad hoc reviews of risk management controls and procedures, the results of which are reported to The Audit Committee.

The Trust financial risk management is carried out by a treasury department (Trust treasury). The Trust treasury identifies, evaluates and hedges financial risks.

ii. Credit risk

Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to the Trust if a counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations and arises principally from the Trust''s receivables from loans given to its SPVs and cash and cash equivalents. The carrying amount of financial assets represents the maximum credit exposure.

The Trust establishes an allowance account for impairment that represents its estimate of losses in respect of its financial assets. The main component of this allowance is estimated losses that relate to specific tenants or counterparties. The allowance account is used to provide for impairment losses. Subsequently when the Trust is satisfied that no recovery of such losses is possible, the financial asset is considered irrecoverable and the amount charged to the allowance account is then written off against the carrying amount of the impaired financial asset.

Cash at bank are placed with financial institutions which are regulated and have low risk.

As at the reporting date, there is no significant concentrations of credit risk. The maximum exposure to credit risk is represented by the carrying value of each financial asset on the Balance Sheet.

iii. Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Trust will encounter difficulty in meeting the obligations associated with its financial liabilities that are settled by delivering cash or another financial asset. The Trust''s approach to managing liquidity is to ensure, as far as possible, that it will have sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities when they are due, under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Trust''s reputation.

The Trust''s primary sources of liquidity include cash, undrawn borrowings, construction facilities and cash flow from operating activities. The Trust seeks to increase income from its existing properties by maintaining quality standards for its properties that promote high occupancy rates and support increases in rental rates while reducing tenant turnover and related costs, and by controlling operating expenses.

Consequently, the Trust believes its revenue, along with proceeds from financing activities will continue to provide the necessary funds to cover its short term liquidity needs. In addition, the Trust projects cash flows and considering the level of liquid assets necessary to meet liquidity requirement.

iv. Market risk

Market risk is the risk that changes in market prices, such as foreign exchange rates, interest rates and equity prices which will affect the Trust''s income or the value of its holdings of financial instruments. The objective of market risk management is to manage and control market risk exposures within acceptable parameters while optimising the return.

a) Currency risk

Majority of transitions entered into by the Trust are denominated in Indian Rupees. Accordingly the Trust does not have any currency risk.

b) Interest rate risk

There is no debt at the Trust level. Accordingly the Trust does not have any interest rate risk.

23. SEGMENT REPORTING

The Trust does not have any Operating segments as at March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021, hence disclosure under Ind AS 108, Operating segments has not been provided in the Standalone Financial Statements.

25. UNCERTAINTY RELATING TO THE GLOBAL HEALTH PANDEMIC ON COVID-19:

The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to cause disruption to business activities as well as disrupted travel and adversely impacted local, regional, national and international economic conditions. Brookfield India REIT has considered possible effects that may result from the pandemic relating to COVID-19 on the carrying amounts and fair value of Investments in Subsidiaries. The fair value of investments in subsidiaries is primarily determined basis the fair value of the underlying investment properties as at March 31, 2022. As a result, future revenues and cash flows produced by investment properties could be potentially impacted due to this prevailing uncertainty. In response, Brookfield India REIT has adjusted cash flow assumptions for its estimate of near-term disruption to cash flows to reflect collections, vacancy and assumptions with respect to new leasing activity. In addition, Brookfield India REIT has continued to assess the appropriateness of the discount and terminal capitalization rates giving consideration to changes to property level cash flows and any risk premium inherent in such cash flow changes as well as the current cost of capital and credit spreads. Further, in developing assumptions relating to possible future uncertainties in the Indian economic conditions because of this pandemic; Brookfield India REIT, as at the

date of approval of these Standalone Financial Statements, has used internal and external sources of information including reports on fair valuation of investment properties from property consultants, economic forecast and other information from market sources on the expected future performance of Brookfield India REIT. Based on this analysis, Brookfield India REIT has concluded that there is no impairment to the carrying amount of investments in subsidiaries and the fair value of investments in subsidiaries disclosed in the Standalone Financial Statements represents the best estimate based on internal and external sources of information on the reporting date.

The impact of COVID-19 on Brookfield India REIT Standalone Financial Statements may differ from that estimated as at the date of approval of these Standalone Financial Statements.

26. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FEE REIT Management Fees

Pursuant to the Investment Management Agreement dated July 17, 2020, Investment Manager is entitled to fees @ 1% of NDCF, exclusive of applicable taxes (also refer note 28). The fees has been determined for undertaking management of the REIT and its investments.The said Management fees for the year ended March 31, 2022 amounts to ''81.21 million. There are no changes during the year ended March 31, 2022 in the methodology for computation of fees paid to the Manager.

29. DISTRIBUTION POLICY

In terms of the Distribution policy and REIT Regulations, not less than 90% of the NDCFs of our Asset SPVs are required to be distributed to Brookfield REIT, in proportion of its shareholding in our Asset SPVs, subject to applicable provisions of the Companies Act. The cash flows receivable by Brookfield REIT may be in the form of dividends, interest income, principal loan repayment, proceeds of any capital reduction or buyback from our Asset SPVs/ CIOP, sale proceeds out of disposal of investments of any or assets directly/ indirectly held by Brookfield REIT or as specifically permitted under the Trust Deed or in such other form as may be permissible under the applicable laws.

At least 90% of the NDCFs of Brookfield REIT ("REIT Distributions") shall be declared and made once every quarter of a Financial Year by our Manager. The first distribution shall be made upon completion of the first full quarter after the listing of our Units on the Stock Exchanges. Further, in accordance with the REIT Regulations, REIT Distributions shall be made no later than 15 days from the date of such declarations. The REIT Distributions, when made, shall be made in Indian Rupees.

The NDCFs shall be calculated in accordance with the REIT Regulations and any circular, notification or guidelines issued thereunder including the SEBI Guidelines.

30. CAPITALIZATION STATEMENT

The Trust''s policy is to maintain a strong capital base so as to maintain investor, creditor and market confidence and to sustain future development of the business. The Trust''s capital structure mainly constitutes equity in the form of unit capital. The projects of SPVs are initially funded through construction financing arrangements.

On completion, these loans are restructured into lease-rental discounting arrangements. The Trust''s capital structure is influenced by the changes in regulatory framework, government policies, available options of financing and the impact of the same on the liquidity position.

The Trust monitors Capital by a careful scrutiny of the cash and bank balances, and a regular assessment of any debt requirements. In the absence of any interest bearing debt, the maintenance of Net debt to GAV ratio may not be of any relevance to the Trust as at March 31, 2022.

31. On April 1, 2021, 12% Compulsorily Convertible Debentures issued by Candor Kolkata and held by Brookfield India REIT (45,535 numbers of 12% Compulsorily Convertible Debentures) have been converted into 37,981 number of equity shares each of ''10 at a premium of ''265,912.43.

*Tangible net worth

**Interest income on investments dividend # Explanation of variances exceeding 25%

Current Ratio is improved due to decrease in current liabilities on account of decrease in REIT issue expenses payable at the beginning of the year.

Return on Equity Ratio is improved due to higher income earned for the complete year as compared to the partial period in previous year.

Trade payables turnover ratio is decreased due to decrease in other expenses and increase in average trade payables.

Net capital turnover ratio is improved due to higher income earned for the complete year as compared to the partial period in previous year.

Return on Capital employed ratio is increased due to higher income earned for the complete year as compared to the partial period in previous year.

34. "0.00" Represents value less than ''0.01 million.


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