EXCLUSION OF FUTURES AND OPTIONS CONTRACTS IN 50 SECURITIES

Contracts for new expiry months in the following securities will not be available for trading on expiry of existing contract months.
Sr No Symbol Security Sr No Symbol Security
1 3IINFOTECH 3i Infotech Limited
2 ALOKTEXT Alok Industries Limited
3 AMTEKAUTO Amtek Auto Ltd
4 APTECHT Aptech Limited
5 ARVIND Arvind Limited
6 BALAJITELE Balaji Telefilms Ltd.
7 BALLARPUR Ballarpur Industries Limited
8 BATAINDIA Bata India Ltd
9 BIRLACORPN Birla Corporation Ltd
10 BOMDYEING Bombay Dyeing & Mfg Co. Ltd
11 CENTRALBK Central Bank of India
12 DCB Development Credit Bank Limited
13 EDELWEISS Edelweiss Capital Limited
14 ESCORTS Escorts Ltd
15 EVERONN Everonn Systems India Limited
16 GDL Gateway Distriparks Limited
17 GITANJALI Gitanjali Gems Limited
18 GNFC Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Co. Ltd.
19 GUJALKALI Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd.
20 HAVELLS Havells India Limited
21 HCL-INSYS HCL Infosystems Ltd
22 HINDOILEXP Hindustan Oil Exploration Co. Ltd
23 IRB IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited
24 JETAIRWAYS Jet Airways (India) Ltd.
25 JSL JSL Limited
26 KESORAMIND Kesoram Industries Ltd.
27 KSK KSK Energy Ventures Limited
28 KTKBANK The Karnataka Bank Limited
29 LAXMIMACH Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd.
30 MAHLIFE Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited
31 MAHSEAMLES Maharashtra Seamless Ltd
32 MINDTREE MindTree Limited
33 MONNETISPA Monnet Ispat Ltd
34 MRF MRF Ltd.
35 NBVENTURES Nava Bharat Ventures Limited
36 NDTV New Delhi Television Limited
37 NETWORK18 Network 18 Fincap Limited
38 NIITLTD NIIT Limited
39 PENINLAND Peninsula Land Limited
40 RAJESHEXPO Rajesh Exports Ltd.
41 RIIL Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited
42 SKUMARSYNF S. Kumars Nationwide Ltd
43 SREINTFIN SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited
44 SRF SRF Ltd.
45 STAR Strides Arcolab Limited
46 THERMAX Thermax Ltd
47 TORNTPOWER Torrent Power Limited
48 TVSMOTOR TVS Motor Company Limited
49 UTVSOF UTV Software Communications Limited
50 WOCKPHARMA Wockhardt Limited

However, the existing unexpired contracts for the month of and April, May and June 2009 would continue to be available for trading till their respective expiry and new strikes would also be introduced in these existing contract months. This shall be effective from May 4, 2009.
Eligibility criteria of stocks on which stock options and single stock futures could be introduced
As a surveillance measure SEBI has required the Exchanges to use the following stock’s selection criteria with immediate effect:
1) The eligibility criteria for inclusion of scrips in F&O segment shall be as under:
• The stock shall be chosen from amongst the top 500 stocks in terms of average daily market capitalization and average daily traded value in the previous six months on a rolling basis.
• The stock’s median quarter sigma order size over the last six months shall be not less than Rs. 5 lakhs.
• The market wide position limit (MWPL) in the stock shall not be less than Rs. 100 crores.
2) The criteria for exclusion of scrips in F&O segment shall be as under:
For an existing F&O stock, the continued eligibility criteria is that market wide position limit in the stock shall not be less than Rs. 60 crores and stock’s median quarter-sigma order size over the last six months shall be not less than Rs. 2 lakh. The stock shall be excluded if the above criteria is not fulfilled for consecutively three months.
3) Further, once the stock is excluded from the F&O list, it shall not be considered for re-inclusion for a period of one year.