{"id":25083,"date":"2026-02-17T13:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=25083"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:18:25","slug":"what-is-demat-debit-and-pledge-instruction-ddpi","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-is-demat-debit-and-pledge-instruction-ddpi\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Demat Debit and Pledge Instruction (DDPI)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DDPI is a digital permission that you give to Samco so your shares can be <strong>sold<\/strong> or <strong>pledged<\/strong> without you having to approve every time manually. Earlier, brokers used a POA (Power of Attorney) for this. SEBI has now replaced it with DDPI because it is <strong>safer, more secure, and fully controlled by you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By submitting DDPI, you authorize Samco for the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Debit of Securities for Settlement Obligations: <\/strong>Transfer of securities held in your Demat account towards stock exchange-related deliveries or settlement obligations arising from trades executed by you.<br><\/li><li><strong>Pledging \/ Re-Pledging of Securities for Margin: <\/strong>Pledging or re-pledging securities in favour of the Samco Securities to meet margin requirements for trades executed on the exchange.<br><\/li><li><strong>Mutual Fund Transactions via Exchange Platforms: <\/strong>Execution of mutual fund transactions placed through stock exchange order entry platforms.<br><\/li><li><strong>Tendering Shares in Open Offers:<\/strong> Submission of shares in open offers through stock exchange platforms.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"simple-example-to-understand-ddpi\" ><strong>Simple example to understand DDPI<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of your Demat account like a <strong>locker<\/strong> that holds your shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Without DDPI \u2192 Every time you want to remove something from the locker, you must <strong>go there and unlock it yourself<\/strong>.<\/li><li>With DDPI \u2192 You give Samco a <strong>one-time key<\/strong> that only works when <em>you<\/em> place a sell order or ask to pledge shares.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you sell 10 shares today, DDPI lets Samco take only those exact 10 shares from your locker automatically, nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes your trades happen smoothly and on time, without repeated approvals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2813],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25087,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25083\/revisions\/25087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=25083"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=25083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}