Master Circular for Portfolio Managers

With a view to ensuring that all Rules, Regulations, Guidelines, Notifications etc. issued by SEBI, the Government of India and other regulatory authorities are complied with, the Portfolio Manager shall designate a senior officer as compliance Officer, who shall co-ordinate with regulatory authorities in various matters and provide necessary guidance as also ensure compliance internally.

Frauds in the Name of TRAI

Any form of communication (call, message, or notice) claiming to be from TRAI and threatening mobile number disconnection should be considered a potential fraudulent attempt. To prevent the misuse of telecom resources for cybercrime and financial fraud, citizens are encouraged to report suspected fraudulent communications through the Chakshu facility on the Department of Telecommunications’ Sanchar Saathi platform.

TRAI issues Consultation Paper on “Revision of National Numbering Plan”

The Consultation Paper for seeking inputs from the stakeholders has been placed on TRAI’s website https:/trai.gov.in/release publication / consultation. Written comments on the Revision of National Numbering Plan are invited from the stakeholders by 04th July 2024 and counter comments by 18th July 2024.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare issues instructions for enhancement of maximum limit of Retirement Gratuity & Death Gratuity for Central Government employees to Rs 25 lakh

In implementation of the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission, the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has issued instructions relating to revision of provisions regulating pension/gratuity/commutation of pension/family pension/disability pension/ex-gratia lump-sum compensation, etc.

DoT and MHA strike down on SMS scammers

Citizens can report suspected fraud communications at Chakshu facility on Sanchar Saathi to help DoT in prevention of misuse of telecom resources for cyber-crime and financial frauds.

DoT allots separate numbering series exclusively for service and transactional voice calls

In order to create confidence among the consumers and to enable them to distinguish between the spam calls originating from 10-digit unknown numbers and the genuine service/transactional calls from genuine Principle Entities, there was a need of separate number series to cater service/transactional voice calls. To fulfil this need, the DoT has allocated a new numbering series, i.e., 160xxxxxxx which will exclusively be used for service/transactional voice calls by the Principle Entities.