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Safety of the Market

A major objective of BSE is to promote and inculcate honourable and just practices of trade in securities transactions, and to
discourage malpractices.

The surveillance function at BSE has assumed greater importance over the last few years. It has a dedicated Surveillance
Department to keep a close, and a daily, watch on the price movement of scrips, detect market manipulations like price rigging,
etc., monitor abnormal prices and volumes which are not consistent with normal trading pattern and monitor the Members'
exposure levels to ensure that defaults do not occur. This Department, which is headed by a General Manager, reports directly
to Managing Director.

As per the guidelines issued by SEBI, except for scrips on which derivative products are available and are part of indices on
which derivative products are available,a daily Circuit Filter of 20% is applied on all scrips.Circuit filters ensures that the price of
a scrip cannot move upward or downward beyond the limit set for the day.BSE has imposed dummy circuit filters to avoid freak
trade due to punching errors by the Trading Members.

The abnormal variation in the prices as well as the volumes of the scrips are scrutinised and appropriate actions are taken. The
scrips which reach new high or new low and companies which have high trading volumes are watched closely. A special
emphasis is laid on the newly listed scrips.

In case certain abnormalities are noticed, the circuit filters are reduced to make it difficult for the price manipulators to increase
or push down the prices of a scrip within a short period of time. BSE imposes special margins in scrips where it suspects an
attempt to ramp up the prices by creating artificial volumes. BSE also transfers the scrips for trading and settlement to the trade-
to-trade category which leads to giving/taking delivery of shares on a gross level and no intra-day/settlement netting off/squaring
off facility is permitted. If abnormal movements continue despite the aforesaid measures, BSE suspends the trading in the scrip.

Detailed investigations are conducted in cases where price manipulation is suspected and disciplinary action is taken against the
concerned Members.

BSE has an On-line Real Time (OLRT) Surveillance System, which has been in operation since July 15, 1999. Under this system,
alerts are generated on-line, in real time during the trading hours, based on certain preset parameters like the price and volume
variation in scrips, a Member taking unduly large positions not commensurate with their financial position or having concentrated
positions in one or more scrips.

This system integrates several databases like company profiles, Members' profiles and historical data of turnover and price
movement in scrips, Members' turnovers, their pay-in obligations, etc.

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