TO THE MEMBERS OF TATA STEEL LIMITED

Report on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of TATA STEEL LIMITED ("the Company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31 March, 2013, the Statement of Profit and Loss and the Cash Flow Statement for the year then ended, and a summary of the significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements

The Company's Management is responsible for the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of the Company in accordance with the Accounting Standards referred to in Section 211(3C) of the Companies Act, 1956 ("the Act") and in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility includes the design, implementation and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditors' Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether thefinancial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and the disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the Company's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion

In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India:

  1. in the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31 March, 2013;
  2. in the case of the Statement of Profit and Loss, of the profit of the Company for the year ended on that date; and
  3. in the case of the Cash Flow Statement, of the cash flows of the Company for the year ended on that date.

Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements

  1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2003 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government in terms of Section 227(4A) of the Act, we give in the Annexure a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order.
  2. As required by Section 227(3) of the Act, we report that:
    1. 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.
    2. In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
    3. The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
    4. In our opinion, the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss, and the Cash Flow Statement comply withthe Accounting Standards referred to in Section 211(3C) of the Act.
    5. On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31 March, 2013 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31 March, 2013 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 274(1)(g) of the Act.

For DELOITTE HASKINS & SELLS
Chartered Accountants
(Firm Registration No. 117366W)

N. VENKATRAM
Partner
(Membership No. 71387)

Mumbai, 23 May, 2013