The company's profit margins shrunk due to rise in costs.
Also there was a 4.7 percent decline in sales income at Rs 1,720.65 crore as compared with Rs 1,806.43 crore in the year ago period.
Expenditure rose by 28.75 percent to Rs 960.189 crore as compared with Rs 745.78 crore in the corresponding previous quarter on the back of a steep rise in royalties and levies besides the increase in selling and freight costs.