November 2006 - NSDL

8Demat-by-NSDL ... Towards a secure future!!!Nest Update November, 2006Visit our website at www.nsdl.co.inTV Advertisements - Apart from the investor awareness programmes mentioned above, NSDL is carrying-outnationwide investor awareness programme by way of advertisements on various Television channels in English,Hindi and other regional languages. Advertisements are carried out in nine languages viz., English, Hindi, Gujarati,Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Bengali.These advertisements are aired from November 2006 over a period of about three months.Towards education of Business Partners etc :Seminars on Anti Money Laundering law: In order to educate DPs about the guidelines of Anti Money Launderinglaw, a series of seminars on were organized as under:PlaceDateNew Delhi October 14, 2006Kolkata November 3, 2006Mumbai November 17, 2006Ahmedabad November 18, 2006Hyderabad November 29, 2006Chennai November 30, 2006Seminars in Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai are organized by Association of NSE Members of India (ANMI) inassociation with NSDL. Mr. Pradeep Goel, Assistant Director, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) - India addressedthe participants. About 250 representatives of DPs attended these seminars.Training Programme for Compliance Officers of DPs: NSDL conducted training programmes for complianceofficers of DPs. Areas covered during the training programmes were compliance requirements, inspection andinternal audit. The programmes were conducted at Mumbai (September 29, 2006 and November 3, 2006), NewDelhi (October 5, 2006), Kolkata (October 10, 2006) and Chennai (October 13, 2006). 230 representatives from 169DPs participated in these programmes.Training Programme for internal auditors of the DPs: During September 2006, NSDL conducted trainingprogrammes for internal auditors of the DPs. Areas covered during these programmes were Account Opening,Dematerialisation / Rematerialisation, Settlement, Pledge and Hypothecation, Corporate Actions, Back officeoperations, critical aspects of Depository Participant Operations, Guidelines on internal audit, Compliance,Depository Participant Inspection; findings and perspectives, Anti Money Laundering Requirement and Systemsoverview. 176 representatives from various audit firms participated in these programmes.Training programmes for business partners: NSDL periodically conducts three-day training programmes forDPs and two-day training programmes for Issuers / R & T Agents. Details of such programmes conducted fromNovember 2005 to October 2006 are as follows:Sl. No. Category No. of Total AttendeesBusiness Partnerentities trained1 DPs 46 1952 Issuers / R & T Agents 31 63Total 77 258