12. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT (Details 1)	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013	Mar. 31, 2012
Fair Value Assumptions and Methodology for Assets and Liabilities
Risk free interest rate	1.44%
Average expected life minimum	10 years
Expected volatility minimum	117.53%
Fair Value Inputs Level 3
Fair Value Assumptions and Methodology for Assets and Liabilities
Risk free interest rate	0.05%
Risk free interest rate maximum	1.56%
Average expected life minimum	3 months
Average expected life maximum	3 years 7 months 6 days
Expected volatility minimum	76.00%
Expected volatility maximum	107.10%
Expected dividends

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Expected volatility maximum

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Rick free interest rate maximum

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Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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