NATIONAL SECURITIES DEPOSITORY LIMITED - NSDL

an account transfer instruction. This report will reflect only those Clientto CM Pool account transfer instructions that are in overdue status. Reportfor a settlement number and market type will be available till the statusof the instructions is 'Overdue at DM'.Impact on back-office file formats: No.2) Disabling of second / third holder fields for Minor accounts:As accounts opened in the name of the minor cannot have joint holdings,a validation check disabling the second / third holder fields in case ofminor accounts where "Guardian" field is selected is provided in thisversion release. As Participants are aware, an utility was provided toextract an output of probable data entry errors made during specifiedtime period to identify minor accounts with joint holdings (Ref. : Pointno. 8 of Circular No. NSDL/POLICY/2006/0057 dated November 24, 2006).Since the above facility is now released, there will be no need to run theutility in respect of minor accounts with joint holdings. However,Participants may use this utility one-time to find out all such accountsopened till the version release.Impact on back-office file formats: No.3) Alert in respect of Companies whose Registrar and Transfer Agents (R& T Agents) have stopped providing services:At the time of capturing and verify/releasing dematerialisation requestsmanually and through back office upload, an alert message on the screenand error file (".prn") will be displayed with respect to those companieswhose R & T Agents have informed that they have stopped providingservices to these companies. A list of such companies with their ISINs inan excel format will be made available on the SQLASSIST Intranet site(https:\\sqlassist) within three days of every fortnight i.e. for the fortnight1st to 15th day of the month, the file will be made available by 18th dayof the month and for the fortnight from 16th to the end of the month,the file will be available by 3rd of the subsequent month. Further, thefile name on the excel sheet will carry the date on which the file wasmade available on the SQLASSIST site for easy identification of the latestfile. Process to be followed by Participants in this regard is as follows:a) Participants will have to download the excel file containing thelist of companies from the SQLASSIST site and copy the same intothe DPM Server.b) Utility named "ISINListImport.exe" will be available in the DPMserver in the directory "C:\ISINLst\exe". Participants need toexecute this utility by double clicking on it.c) On executing this utility, a message will appear that will promptthe User to select the Excel file (copied in the DPM server).Participants must take due care to select the file copied in theDPM server as per step 3 (b) above for the latest fortnight [and notto inadvertently select the earlier copied file(s)].d) On selecting the file, the utility will load the list of companiesprovided in the file into the DPM database.Impact on back-office file formats: No.4) Addition of new sub-type named Foreign Venture Capital:New sub-type named 'Foreign Venture Capital' has been added to theClient Type: 'Body Corporate' under the Client Maintenance Module.[ 418 ]