| Jhaveri Securities

Investor Charter – Depository

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://nsdl.co.in/dpsch.php]

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	Depositories to accept physical DIS for pay-in of securities upto 4 p.m and DIS in electronic form upto 6 p.m on T+1 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 a. Basic Services Demat Account(BSDA)1 [link to be provided by the Participants] b. Transposition cum dematerialization2 [link to be provided by the Participants] c. Linkages with Clearing System3 [link to be provided by the Participants] d. Distribution of cash and non-cash corporate benefits (Bonus, Rights, IPOs etc.)
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: a. E-account opening4 [link to be provided by the Participants] b. Online instructions for execution5 [link to be provided by the Participants] c. e-DIS / Demat Gateway6 [link to be provided by the Participants] d. e-CAS facility7 [link to be provided by the Participants] e. Miscellaneous services8 [link to be provided by the Participants]

5. Details of Grievance Redressal Mechanism

(1) The Process of investor grievance redressal

1.	Investor Complaint/ Grievances	Investor can lodge complaint/ grievance against the Depository/DP in the following ways: a. Electronic mode - (i) SCORES (a web based centralized grievance redressal system of SEBI) [https://www.scores.gov.in/scores/Welcome.h tml] (ii) Respective Depository’s web portal dedicated for the filing of compliant [https://www.epass.nsdl.com/complaints/webs itecomplaints.aspx] (iii) Emails to designated email IDs of Depository [relations@nsdl.co.in] The complaints/ grievances lodged directly with the Depository shall be resolved within 30 days.
2.	Investor Grievance Redressal Committee of Depository	If no amicable resolution is arrived, then the Investor has the option to refer the complaint/ grievance to the Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) of the Depository. Upon receipt of reference, the GRC will endeavor to resolve the complaint/ grievance by hearing the parties, and examining the necessary information and documents.
3.	Arbitration proceedings	The Investor may also avail the arbitration mechanism set out in the Byelaws and Business Rules/Operating Instructions of the Depository in relation to any grievance, or dispute relating to depository services. The arbitration reference shall be concluded by way of issue of an arbitral award within 4 months from the date of appointment of arbitrator(s).

(2) For the Multi-level complaint resolution mechanism available at the Depositories9 [link to be provided by the Participants]

6. Guidance pertaining to special circumstances related to market activities: Termination of the Depository Participant

Sr.No.	Type of special circumstances	Timelines for the Activity/ Service
1.	Depositories to terminate the participation in case a participant no longer meets the eligibility criteria and/or any other grounds as mentioned in the bye laws like suspension of trading member by the Stock Exchanges. Participant surrenders the participation by its own wish.	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.

7. Dos and Don’ts for Investors10

8. Rights of investors11

9. Responsibilities of Investors12

Details of Complaint Received by Depository Participant - Jhaveri Securities Ltd

SN	Received from	Carried forward from previous month	Received during the month	Total Pending#	Resolved*	Pending at the end of the month**		Average Resolution time^ (in days)
SN	Received from	Carried forward from previous month	Received during the month	Total Pending#	Resolved*	Pending for less than 3 months	Pending for more than 3 months	Average Resolution time^ (in days)
1	Directly from Investors	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
2	SEBI(SCORES)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Stock Exchanges ( if any )	0	3	1	3	0	0	0
4	Other Sources (if any)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Grand Total	0	4	0	4	0	0	0

Trend of Monthly disposal of Complaints

Sr.No	Month	Carried forward from previous month	Received	Resolved	Pending
1	Apr-22	0	0	0	0
2	May-22	0	0	0	0
3	Jun-22	0	0	0	0
4	Jul-22	0	0	0	0
5	Aug-22	0	1	0	1
6	Sep-22	1	1	1	1
7	Oct-22	0	1	1	0
8	Nov-22	0	1	1	0
9	Dec-22	0	1	1	0
10	Jan-23	0	0	0	0
11	Feb-23	0	1	0	1
	Grant Total	0	5	4	1

Trend of Annul Disposal of Complaints

SN	Year		Received during the year
1	2017-18	0	0	0
2	2018-19	0	0	0
3	2019-20	2	2	0
4	2020-21	1	1	0
5	2021-22	0	0	0
6	2022-23	5	4	1
	Grand Total	8	7	1