The number of
investor accounts at India's 2 depositories - NSDL & CDSL - together stood
at 2.25 crore at the end of September, 2014 an addition of more 10 lakh
investor accounts year-on-year.
The total number of
investor accounts at the depositories stood at nearly 2.15 crore in September
2013.
National Securities
Depository Ltd (NSDL) and Central Depository Services Ltd (CDSL) allow
investors to deposit securities by opening an account.
Securities such as
shares, debentures, bonds of investors are held in electronic form
(dematerialised form) at the depositories.
Individually, the
total number of investor accounts at NSDL was 1.34 crore as of September-end
2014 as against 1.29 crore in the same period last year.
CDSL had as many as
91.23 lakh investor accounts at the end of September this year, a sharp jump
from 85.60 lakh accounts in the year-ago period.
Together, the total
number of investor accounts stood at 2.25 crore in September, an addition of
10,30,949 accounts from the same month in 2013.
Month-on-month, the
cumulative number of investor accounts in both the depositories rose by 1.7
lakh in September over the preceding month.
Meanwhile, data
showed that the total value of securities in dematerialised form at the
depositories stood at more than Rs. 121 lakh crore at the end of September,
2014 a rise of about 64% over the same period in 2013.
NSDL registered demat
securities worth about Rs. 107.2 lakh crore while CDSL recorded demat value of
more than Rs. 14 lakh crore on its platform, as on September 30, 2014.
Besides, the
cumulative quantity of securities in demat form stood at 1.05 lakh crore in
September as compared to 44,241 crore in the year-ago period.
The volume of demat
securities on NSDL & CDSL stood at 86,185 crore and Rs 18,870 crore,
respectively as on September, 2014..
The depositories hold
investors' securities in electronic form through their registered depository
participants.
These securities
include common equity shares, preference shares, debentures, mutual fund (MF)
units, among others.
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