Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) is for promotion of investors’ awareness and protection of the interests of investors. This website is an information providing platform to promote awareness, and it does not offer any investment advice or evaluation.
For more details visit : http://www.iepf.gov.in/
Companies retains dividends, deposits, Share Application Money and debentures, for seven years with them for payment to investors and after expiry of seven years, transfer the said amount to IEPF. The details of such amounts which are due to be transfered to IEPF, and still lying with company are available. This facility may be availed by clicking Search Unclaimed/Unpaid Amount.
After the Form IEPF-2 is filled and uploaded on the IEPF portal, you are required to provide the investor wise details of unclaimed and unpaid amount.
Following are the steps which need to be followed to upload the investor wise details of unclaimed and unpaid amounts:
1. Install the Pre-requisite Software's to proceed. To know and install the same click on 'Prerequisite Software' link.
2. Download the Excel toolkit.
3. Download the excel template from the IEPF portal in the zip format.
4. Unzip the zip file and save the template in xls (97-2003) and .xlsm(2007) format only.
5. Fill the required details in the excel file.For more details, refer to the IEPF FAQs-->Application
Once the Investor details file(s) has been uploaded, user is required to confirm the upload of the same on the IEPF portal within 15 days of upload of the eForm IEPF-2.
To confirm the upload of the investor-wise details, following steps are to be followed:
1. Click on “Confirm Upload of unclaimed and unpaid amount details”.
2. Enter the CIN and SRN details and clicks on “Confirm” button.
3. On successful confirmation, the details shall be processed and thereafter the Form IEPF-2 shall be marked as ‘Approved’.
4. In case uploaded excel files are not confirmed within the aforesaid time period, then the same will be automatically confirmed by the system.
Please note that the filing of Form IEPF-2 shall be treated as complete only after the excel file(s) are uploaded and confirmed.
For more details, refer to the IEPF FAQs-->Application