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SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS - Assumptions (Details) - $ / shares | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2021 | Mar. 31, 2020
Share-based Payment Arrangements [Abstract] |  |
Common share price | $ 21.48 | $ 33.94
Exercise price | $ 20.65 | $ 34.50
Dividend yield | 2.01% | 1.18%
Expected volatility | 35.22% | 19.70%
Risk-free interest rate | 0.36% | 1.48%
Expected stock option life | 4 years | 4 years

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- Definition The expected volatility of the share price used to calculate the fair value of the share options granted. Expected volatility is a measure of the amount by which a price is expected to fluctuate during a period. The measure of volatility used in option pricing models is the annualised standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a period of time. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2020-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2020-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2020-01-01 + Details
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- Definition The implied yield currently available on zero-coupon government issues of the country in whose currency the exercise price for share options granted is expressed, with a remaining term equal to the expected term of the option being valued (based on the option's remaining contractual life and taking into account the effects of expected early exercise). [Refer: Government [member]] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2020-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2020-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2020-01-01 + Details
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- Definition The exercise price of share options granted. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2020-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2020-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2020-01-01 + Details
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- Definition The percentage of an expected dividend used to calculate the fair value of share options granted. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2020-01-01 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2020-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2020-01-01 + Details
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- Definition The weighted average exercise price of share options granted in a share-based payment arrangement. [Refer: Weighted average [member]] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2020-01-01 -Paragraph 45 -Subparagraph b -Clause ii -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2020-en-r&anchor=para_45_b_ii&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2020-01-01 + Details
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