Investor Charter
1. Vision
Towards making Indian Securities Market - Transparent, Efficient, & Investor friendly by providing safe, reliable, transparent and trusted record keeping platform for investors to hold and transfer securities in dematerialized form.
2. Mission
- To hold securities of investors in dematerialised form and facilitate its transfer, while ensuring safekeeping of securities and protecting interest of investors.
- To provide timely and accurate information to investors with regard to their holding and transfer of securities held by them.
- To provide the highest standards of investor education, investor awareness and timely services so as to enhance Investor Protection and create awareness about Investor Rights.
3. Details of business transacted by the Depository and Depository Participant (DP)
A Depository is an organization which holds securities of investors in electronic form. Depositories provide services to various market participants - Exchanges, Clearing Corporations, Depository Participants (DPs), Issuers and Investors in both primary as well as secondary markets. The depository carries out its activities through its agents which are known as Depository Participants (DP). Details available on the link https://www.cdslindia.com/DP/dplist.aspx (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)
4. Description of services provided by the Depository through Depository Participants (DP) to investors
(1) Basic Services
| Sr. No. | Brief about the Activity / Service | Expected Timelines for processing by the DP after receipt of proper documents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dematerialization of securities | 7 days |
| 2 | Rematerialization of securities | 7 days |
| 3 | Mutual Fund Conversion / Destatementization | 5 days |
| 4 | Re-conversion / Restatementisation of Mutual fund units | 7 days |
| 5 | Transmission of securities | 7 days |
| 6 | Registering pledge request | 15 days |
| 7 | Closure of demat account | 30 days |
| 8 | Settlement Instruction | For T+1 day settlements, Participants shall accept instructions from the Clients, in physical form up to 4 p.m. (in case of electronic instructions up to 6.00 p.m.) on T day for pay-in of securities. For T+0 day settlements, Participants shall accept EPI instructions from the clients, till 11:00 AM on T day. Note: ‘T’ refers ‘Trade Day’ |
(2) Depositories provide special services like pledge, hypothecation, internet based services etc. in addition to their core services and these include
| Sr. No. | Type of Activity /Service | Brief about the Activity / Service |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Value Added Services | Depositories also provide value added services such as
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| 2 | Consolidated Account statement (CAS) | CAS is issued 10 days from the end of the month (if there were transactions in the previous month) or half yearly (if no transactions). |
| 3 | Digitalization of services provided by the depositories | Depositories offer below technology solutions and e-facilities to their demat account holders through DPs: |
5. Details of Grievance Redressal Mechanism
| Step | Grievance type | Process and details |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Investor Complaint/ Grievances | Investor can lodge complaint/ grievance against the Depository/DP in the following ways:
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| 2 | Investor Grievance Redressal Committee of Depository | |
| 3 | Arbitration proceedings |
| Sr. No. | Type of special circumstances | Timelines for the Activity/ Service |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
| Client will have a right to transfer all its securities to any other Participant of its choice without any charges for the transfer within 30 days from the date of intimation by way of letter/email. |