With a view to facilitate the entry of these new investors and encourage them to participate in the cash market including the disinvestment of PSUs through OFS process, SEBI, vide circular dated March 04, 2015, has prescribed that individual investors can open a trading as well as demat account by filling up a simplified one page Account Opening Form termed as ‘SARAL AOF’. There will not be any requirement of separate form for opening demat account.
While maintaining the interest rate stance in its sixth bi-monthly monetary policy statement of February 3 in the absence of new developments on inflation or on the fiscal outlook till then, the Reserve Bank indicated that it will keenly monitor the revision in the consumer price index (CPI) with regard to the path of inflation in 2015-16 as well as the Union Budget for 2015-16.
Henceforth all letters should be submitted to Centralized Receipt Section (CRS). All communications including declarations, intimations, applications, grievance letters shall be received in the Centralized Receipt Section (CRS) except: i) all refund applications/claims; ii) replies to queries in live bills of entry; iii) documents submitted at the time of personal hearing;
