Familiarization Programme on ‘E-Voting & General Body Meeting Processes in India’ for Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran July 29 – August 3 | NISM Campus, Patalganga
NISM has conducted a Familiarization Programme on ‘E-Voting & General Body Meeting Processes in India’ for Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran at NISM Patalganga Campus during July 29 – August 3, 2019. A total of 13 participants have attended the programme.
All participants were taken to visit Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on their first day where they have interacted with Mr. S. K. Mohanty, Whole Time Member, SEBI. In second half of day, they have visited National Stock Exchange where sessions on Clearing and Settlement and Cyber Security were arranged.
The programme was inaugurated by Mr. Sunil Kadam, Registrar, NISM and Mr. V. R. Narasimhan, NISM. Mr. Vishal Shukla, Member of Faculty, NISM was the programme co-ordinator.
The 6-days programme schedule is as under:
| Topic | Resource Person |
| Interaction with International Affairs Division, SEBI | Mr. S. K. Mohanty, WTM, SEBI |
| Interaction with CFD – Issuer interface | Mr. Pradeep Ramkrishnan, GM, SEBI & Ms. Nila Khanolkar, AGM, SEBI |
| Clearing, Settlement and risk management | Mr. Sijo Eluvathingal, Associate Vice President, NSCCL |
| Cyber Security | Mr. M V Seshadri, CISO, NSE |
| Overview of Indian Capital Markets and instruments of investments offered by Indian Corporates | Dr. V. R. Narasimhan, Dean – SRSS & SCG, NISM |
| Depository system, transfer and transmission and settlements under depository system, shareholder rights under Companies Act. | |
| Mutual Funds: Introduction, Structure and Regulations | Mr. Ramamoorthy Rajagopal, COO, DSP Merrill Lynch Limited |
| Mutual Fund Schemes – Growth | |
| Provisions Relating to General Body Meetings: Notice, Quorum, Types of Resolutions, Postal Ballot, etc. | Mr. B Renganathan, Executive Vice President, Edelweiss Financial Services Limited |
| Provisions Relating to General Body Meetings: E-voting, Web Casting, Role of Chairman, Role of Scrutinizers, etc. | |
| E- Voting Infrastructure and Web Casting | Ms. Khilona Behera, Assistant Vice President, National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) |
| E-Voting Process, Voting on Mobile, Demonstration, E-voting at General Body Meeting | |
| IT Infrastructure for Stock Exchanges, Clearing and Settlement | Dr. Muralidaran N, Managing Director & CEO, NSEit |
| IT Infrastructure for Stock Exchanges, Clearing and Settlement | |
| Corporate Governance under LODR | Dr. V. R. Narasimhan, Dean – SRSS & SCG, NISM |
| Proxy Advisory Services | Mr. J N Gupta, Executive Director, SEBI |
| Breakfast Talk and Valedictory Ceremony | Mr. Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate & Independent Legal Counsel |
| Trading in Simulated Environment | Dr. Latha Chari & Team, NISM |
| SEBI Act | Mr. D. V. Sekhar, CGM, SEBI |
A musical evening was organized with live singing performances in Auditorium. All NISM students, staff and ICLS programme participants were also invited to join for the musical evening followed by dinner.
A visit to annual General Meeting of Tata Communications at BSE was organized in order to understand E-Voting & General Body Meeting Processes in India. All classroom sessions were also centered on the main theme of E-voting to have clearer perspective from regulation as well market participants.
On the last day of programme, an informal yet informative and interactive session was conducted by Mr. Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate & Independent Legal Counsel where varied topics, policies and their impact & perception was discussed.
All participants were awarded with the certificate of training completion by Mr. Somasekhar Sundaresan and Dr. Latha Chari, Lecturer. All Participants were given a book titled ‘My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi’ which is an autobiography. The training program was liked and appreciated by all and vice-versa. All Iranian Delegates were appreciated by all internal as well as external faculties for their enthusiasm to learn and being interactive.
