The Securities and Exchange Board of India vide Notification No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2018/24 dated 8^th June, 2018 has come out with the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2018 (effective date of implementation is 5th December, 2018), wherein it has mandated that the requests for effecting transfer of securities shall not be processed unless the securities are held in the dematerialized form with a depository except in the cases of transmission or transposition of securities.

In view of above amended Regulations, Members are requested to get their shares dematerialized at the earliest to avoid any inconvenience. The procedure for dematerialization of shares is mentioned hereunder:

1. Open an account in the name(s) of shareholder(s) with any of the Depository Participants (DP).
2. Surrender the original share certificate to the DP together with duly filled & signed Demat Request Form. The shareholders will be required to use the original Demat Request Form of the concerned DP.
3. Confirm with DP the credit of shares to your Demat Account.