How to Convert Old Coromandel Share Certificates to Demat and Recover Them from IEPF

To convert an old Coromandel share certificate to demat, open a demat account in exactly the name printed on it, update your KYC with the registrar (KFin Technologies in Hyderabad), and hand the certificate to your broker or bank with a demat request form. If the shares have already moved to the IEPF, you claim them back with Form IEPF-5. Either way, the shares end up in your demat account.

But an old certificate from this company usually does not say “Coromandel International”. It says Coromandel Fertilisers Limited, the name the company used from 1961 until September 2009. And the number printed on it is almost never the number you own. Coromandel gave free bonus shares in 1978 and 1986, then split every ₹10 share into five ₹2 shares in 2006 and every ₹2 share into two ₹1 shares in 2010.

Put together, 100 Coromandel Fertilisers shares bought in 1980 are 1,500 Coromandel International shares today, worth about ₹29 lakh (24 September 2026 price). And some families own Coromandel shares without ever having bought one: every EID Parry shareholder in January 2004 was given Coromandel shares, on a separate certificate.

This guide covers every situation we see with these shares: the old name, what an old certificate is worth today, the companies that merged into Coromandel, converting to demat, claiming from the IEPF, lost certificates, duplicates, names that do not match, joint holders, and shares of a holder who has died. If you would rather we checked your certificates for you, start with Find Your Shares.

My certificate says Coromandel Fertilisers. Is it Coromandel International?

Yes. Coromandel Fertilisers Limited is today’s Coromandel International Limited. The company changed its name in September 2009, not its shares. It was set up in 1961 and is part of the Murugappa Group. The name on the certificate is the only thing that changed:

You do not need to exchange a Coromandel Fertilisers certificate for a new one before converting it to demat. The registrar knows the folio under the old name. Letters from the registrar may also carry an old name: it was Karvy Computershare, then Karvy Fintech (2018), then KFin Technologies (2019). It is the same registrar throughout.

Certificates that are not Coromandel International

• Coromandel Engineering Company Limited. A separate listed company with its own register and its own unclaimed dividend lists. Its shares are not Coromandel International shares.
• E.I.D.-Parry (India) Limited. Coromandel’s parent company, but a separate listed company. EID Parry shares stay EID Parry shares. The one link is the January 2004 share issue explained below.
• Other Murugappa Group companies, such as Carborundum Universal (CUMI) or Tube Investments. Same group, different companies, different registers.

How many Coromandel shares does an old certificate become today?

Every Coromandel Fertilisers share held since before 1986 is now 15 or more shares. The exact number depends on when the shares were first held in your family’s name. Four events multiplied the holding:

Find the row that matches your certificate:

*At about ₹1,942 a share, the closing price on 24 September 2026. Values move with the market. When a bonus did not divide evenly into a holding, the leftover fraction was paid in cash, so some odd-sized holdings come out slightly lower than the table. Rights shares offered in 1967 are not included: they were only issued to holders who paid for them, on their own certificates.

Here is how 100 shares bought in 1980 grow, one step at a time:

Look at the last row. The certificate says 100. The family owns 1,500 shares. Coromandel paid ₹11 a share in dividends for 2025–26 (₹9 interim and ₹2 final). On this holding, that is ₹16,500 in one year.

Each of these events came on separate paper. The 1986 bonus arrived as its own certificate, in its own envelope. The 2006 and 2010 splits meant new certificates again. Many families have only the original certificate and assume that is everything. Certificates that never reached the family go into the company’s unclaimed suspense account, and after seven years of unclaimed dividends the shares move to the IEPF. So one family’s holding can be spread across three places: the cupboard, the suspense account and the IEPF.

What about the 2012 “bonus debentures”? In 2012 Coromandel gave its shareholders bonus debentures, not bonus shares. They did not add a single share to anyone’s holding, so they do not change the table above.

What matters is when the shares were registered in your family’s name, not only the date printed on the front. If your father bought the shares in the market, the transfer is usually stamped on the back of the certificate with a date. That date decides which row you are in.

Every number here comes from the company’s own records and its filings with the stock exchanges. The registrar’s folio record gives the final count for your family. Don’t want to work it out yourself? Send us the folio and we will trace the complete holding.

My certificate says ₹10 or ₹2 a share. What happened to it?

The face value tells you which split your certificate came before. A ₹10 share is now 10 shares of ₹1, and a ₹2 share is now 2 shares of ₹1, before counting any bonus. The face value is printed on the certificate, usually near the number of shares. It is the quickest way to date a Coromandel certificate:

• Face value ₹10: issued before January 2006. Multiply by at least 10. If it is older than the 1986 bonus, multiply further (see the table above).
• Face value ₹2: issued between January 2006 and December 2010. Multiply by 2.
• Face value ₹1: issued after December 2010. The number printed is the number of shares you own. Nothing has changed since.

Found a ₹10 and a ₹2 certificate on the same folio? After a split, paper holders were normally sent new certificates in place of the old ones. If both are on the same folio, they are usually the same shares, not extra ones. Don’t add them together. The registrar’s folio record settles it.

Only have the ₹10 certificate? Then the new certificates issued against it either reached the family and were lost, or never reached it. The registrar can see which. If they never arrived, the shares are with the company or, after seven years of unclaimed dividends, in the IEPF. Either way, the old ₹10 certificate is the evidence you start from. Our guide to face value and how splits work explains the idea in more detail.

I held EID Parry shares. Do I own Coromandel shares too?

Very likely, yes, if the shares were in your family’s name on 2 January 2004. On that date EID Parry’s fertiliser and pesticide business moved into Coromandel, and every EID Parry shareholder was given 1 Coromandel share for every 3 EID Parry shares. They kept all their EID Parry shares as well. The Coromandel shares came as a separate certificate, from a different company.

That is why so many of these holdings are forgotten. The family knows it owns EID Parry. Nobody remembers a Coromandel certificate arriving in 2004. But the Coromandel shares have grown since:

*At about ₹1,942 a share, the closing price on 24 September 2026. Coromandel shares given in 2004 were ₹10 shares, so the 2006 and 2010 splits multiply them by 10. Holdings that did not divide evenly by 3 had the leftover fraction paid in cash.

If the family never cashed a Coromandel dividend, because nobody knew the shares existed, those shares have almost certainly gone to the IEPF by now. That is recoverable. The claim is made on the Coromandel folio, not the EID Parry one. Our guide to old EID Parry shares covers the EID Parry side, or we can check both for you.

My certificate is from Godavari Fertilisers, Ficom, Liberty Phosphate or Sabero. What is it now?

All four companies merged into Coromandel, and their shareholders were given Coromandel shares in exchange. The old certificates are no longer shares in their own right. What you own now is Coromandel International shares. The ratios, from Coromandel’s own filings with the stock exchanges:

Values at about ₹1,942 a share, 24 September 2026. The Ficom and Godavari shares were given as ₹2 shares, so the 2010 split doubled them. Leftover fractions were paid in cash.

The Coromandel shares from a merger are on a Coromandel folio. If the family received them on paper, there will be a Coromandel certificate somewhere, often in the same file as the old one. If it never arrived, the shares are with Coromandel’s registrar or, after seven years of unclaimed dividends, in the IEPF. The old Godavari, Ficom, Liberty or Sabero certificate is still useful: it proves what the family held, and the registrar can trace the Coromandel folio from it.

Two smaller companies, Rasilah Investments (with Ficom) and Liberty Urvarak (with Liberty Phosphate), also merged in. They were fully owned by the group, so no family holds their shares.

How do you convert Coromandel share certificates to demat?

Through a demat account in the same name as the certificates. Your broker or bank sends them to the registrar, KFin Technologies in Hyderabad, and the shares are credited electronically. Since 1 April 2019, physical shares cannot be sold or transferred until they are in demat. So this step comes before anything else you want to do with them.

1. Open a demat account in exactly the name on the certificates. If the certificate says “Ramesh K. Sharma”, the account must be able to match that. If the names differ, fix that first (see name mismatch below).
2. Update your KYC with the registrar. For physical shares SEBI requires PAN, address, mobile, email, bank details and a specimen signature on the folio. You do this with Form ISR-1, plus ISR-2 (your bank confirms your signature) if the signature on record is old or different. Until the KYC is complete, the registrar will not process the demat request.
3. Fill a Demat Request Form (DRF) at your broker or bank (your “depository participant”). Write “Surrendered for Dematerialisation” on each certificate and sign it as it was signed on the register.
4. Your broker sends the DRF and certificates to the registrar. It checks the signature, the folio and the distinctive numbers against Coromandel’s register.
5. The shares appear in your demat account, usually within a few weeks if the papers are clean.

Where people get stuck: signatures that no longer match after 40 years, a name spelt differently on the PAN card, a joint holder who has died, an old ₹10 certificate with no ₹2 or ₹1 replacement, and bonus or merger certificates that never reached the family. Each of these is covered below. For the fees involved, see what it costs to convert physical shares to demat, or read about our physical shares to demat service.

Is there a deadline? Not for shares already registered in your own name. You can demat them at any time. But while they sit on paper, you cannot sell them, and unclaimed dividends are quietly pushing them towards the IEPF. Read more about the demat “last date”.

How do you check if your Coromandel shares have gone to the IEPF?

If no dividend on a folio has been cashed for seven years in a row, those shares have very likely been moved to the IEPF. The IEPF is the Investor Education and Protection Fund, a government fund that holds unclaimed shares and dividends until the owner claims them back. Coromandel usually pays two dividends a year, an interim and a final, and it moves shares to the IEPF twice a year as well. The last batch was due on 23 August 2026, for folios that had not cashed a dividend since the 2018–19 final dividend.

• Coromandel’s dividend page lists the due date for each year’s transfer and links to the registrar’s search, where you enter a folio number or demat ID to see unpaid dividends and shares due for transfer. Coromandel International dividend and IEPF page.
• The IEPF Authority’s search at iepfa.gov.in lets you search by company and holder name. How to search the IEPF step by step.
• Search under today’s name, Coromandel International Limited, not Coromandel Fertilisers. And search every old spelling of the holder’s name. A folio opened in the 1970s will often show only initials.
• Look for more than one entry. The original shares, the bonus shares and the split shares can have moved in the same batch or in different years, depending on which certificates were delivered.

If you find nothing, the shares may still be with the company, which is better news: you can demat them directly without an IEPF claim. We can run the search for you.

How do you recover Coromandel shares from the IEPF?

You first get an entitlement letter from Coromandel, then file Form IEPF-5 online on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs website, then send the signed papers to Coromandel’s Nodal Officer, who verifies them and reports to the IEPF Authority. The Authority then releases the shares, and any dividends it holds, to your demat account. Shares are only ever released into a demat account, never as a paper certificate.

1. Open a demat account in the name of the claimant. For a joint holding, it must be in the same names and the same order.
2. Complete KYC with the registrar and ask Coromandel for an entitlement letter. This letter states how many shares and how much dividend on your folio went to the IEPF. Coromandel’s own notices ask shareholders to send the physical documents to the company for this letter first. Since October 2025 the entitlement letter is a mandatory part of every IEPF-5 claim.
3. File Form IEPF-5 on the MCA portal. Note the SRN it gives you; that is your claim number. How to file IEPF-5 online.
4. Send the physical documents to Coromandel’s Nodal Officer, the Company Secretary, at its registered office in Secunderabad, in an envelope marked “Claim for refund from IEPF Authority”. These are: the signed IEPF-5 printout and acknowledgement, an indemnity bond on stamp paper, an advance stamped receipt, PAN, Aadhaar, a cancelled cheque, your client master list, the entitlement letter and the original certificate if you still have it.
5. Coromandel verifies and reports to the IEPF Authority. The rules give the company 15 days to send its verification report and the Authority 60 days to decide. That is 75 days on paper. Real claims usually take far longer, because documents go back and forth. What to do when an IEPF claim is stuck.

Claim the full folio in one go. If the original shares, the bonus shares and the split shares went to the IEPF in different batches, one claim should cover everything on that folio. Claim only the number printed on your certificate, and you will be back in the queue for the rest.

Watch the signature. With a Coromandel Fertilisers folio, the specimen signature on record can be 40 or 50 years old. If yours no longer matches, the entitlement request comes back. Fix it with Form ISR-2 before you start, not after. How to fix a signature mismatch.

What if the Coromandel share certificates are lost?

It depends on where the shares are now. If they are still with the company, you need a duplicate certificate. If they have gone to the IEPF, you usually do not.

• Shares still with Coromandel: the company must first cancel the lost certificate and issue duplicate shares, which are credited straight into your demat account. This is the process in the next section.
• Shares already in the IEPF: when physical shares move to the IEPF, the company converts them to demat and transfers them to the Fund, so the paper certificates no longer count. There is nothing left to duplicate. You claim with IEPF-5 and the entitlement letter, which is based on the company’s register, not on the paper in your hand. Families often spend months getting a duplicate they never needed.

Don’t know the folio number? Old dividend warrants, bank passbooks showing Coromandel dividend credits, letters from Coromandel Fertilisers or Karvy, even a wealth-tax return can give it. With the holder’s name and an old address, the registrar can usually trace the folio. Our lost shares recovery service starts from exactly this point.

How do you get a duplicate Coromandel share certificate?

Apply to the registrar with Form ISR-4 and the documents SEBI sets for the value of your holding. The duplicate shares are then credited straight into your demat account. SEBI simplified these rules in December 2025. Duplicates are no longer issued on paper at all.

What you need depends on what the lost shares are worth today:

• Up to ₹10,000: a simple undertaking on plain paper.
• ₹10,000 to ₹10 lakh: one standard affidavit-cum-indemnity bond.
• Above ₹10 lakh: the affidavit-cum-indemnity bond, plus a police report (FIR, e-FIR or police complaint) that mentions the folio, certificate numbers and distinctive numbers, plus a notice of the loss in a widely read newspaper.

With Coromandel, old certificates cross these lines quickly. At about ₹1,942 a share, the ₹10,000 plain-paper limit is only about 5 of today’s shares, and ₹10 lakh is about 514. A ₹10 certificate from before 1986 for just 35 shares is already 525 shares, about ₹10.20 lakh. So most lost pre-2006 certificates need the full process.

1. Open a demat account first, in the same name (or names) as the folio. Since 2 April 2026 the registrar credits duplicate shares directly into your demat account. There is no longer a “Letter of Confirmation” to carry to your broker, so the account has to exist before you apply.
2. Update KYC on the folio with Form ISR-1, and ISR-2 if your signature has changed.
3. Get the police report and newspaper notice if the holding is above ₹10 lakh. The registrar can give you the certificate numbers if you do not have them.
4. Submit Form ISR-4 to the registrar, with the affidavit-cum-indemnity bond, the police report and notice if needed, and your demat account details.
5. The shares are credited to your demat account once the registrar completes its checks. SEBI expects this in about 30 days for a complete, correct application.

The value is worked out on the market price, not the face value printed on the certificate. Every bonus and split share on the folio counts, so a Coromandel Fertilisers holding that “looks” small is often over the line. The full process is in our guide to reporting a lost share certificate.

What if the name or spelling on the certificate does not match?

Fix the name on the folio first, before you demat or file an IEPF claim, using Form ISR-1 and a document that proves both spellings belong to you. The registrar, the demat account and the IEPF claim all have to show the same name. One letter out of place is enough to get a request returned.

This is very common with Coromandel Fertilisers folios, many of which go back to the 1960s and 1970s. Typical cases:

• Initials on the certificate, full name on the PAN card: “R. K. Sharma” against “Ramesh Kumar Sharma”.
• A woman’s maiden name on the certificate and her married name on everything else.
• Spelling changes over time: “Subramanian” and “Subramaniam”, “Laxmi” and “Lakshmi”, a dropped initial or family name.
• Titles and suffixes like “Smt.”, “Dr.” or “HUF” in one place and not the other.

The usual proof is a passport, a marriage certificate, a gazette notification, or a notarised affidavit that both names are the same person. Send it with Form ISR-1 to the registrar. Once the folio matches your PAN, the demat and the IEPF claim can go through.

Don’t open the demat account in the “new” name and hope it works. The registrar will reject the demat request, and the certificates come back weeks later. Getting the order right the first time saves months.

How do joint holders convert or claim Coromandel shares?

The demat account must be in the same names and in the same order as on the certificate, and every living holder must sign. A certificate in the names of “A, B and C” can only be converted into a demat account held by A, B and C, in that order. The bonus and split certificates carry the same names in the same order as the folio they came from, so one joint demat account can take all of them.

• Everyone alive and available: open a joint demat account matching the certificates, complete KYC for every holder, and all of them sign the demat request.
• The names are in the wrong order for the demat account you want to use: ask the registrar to change the order (“transposition”) with Form ISR-4 before you demat.
• One joint holder has died: the surviving holders get the shares simply by having the deceased holder’s name deleted. You need a copy of the death certificate and the survivors’ KYC. No succession certificate, will or probate is needed for this.
• Every holder has died: this becomes a transmission to the legal heirs of the last surviving holder (next section).

For an IEPF claim on a joint folio, the IEPF-5 and the demat account follow the same rule: same names, same order. If one holder has died, delete their name through the registrar before you file.

What if the Coromandel shareholder has died?

The shares pass to the nominee or legal heirs through transmission, handled by the registrar, and they are always credited in demat. If the shares have also gone to the IEPF, transmission and the IEPF claim happen together, and the heir files the IEPF-5 as the claimant.

SEBI’s new transmission rules have applied since 22 August 2026. They make this easier than it was:

• Simplified documents for physical shares worth up to ₹10 lakh per company, doubled from ₹5 lakh.
• Quick processing for physical holdings up to ₹10,000 where the claimant is a parent, spouse, child or parent-in-law.
• No blanket requirement for probate, and one combined affidavit-cum-NOC in place of separate papers. You still have to prove your entitlement if other heirs dispute it.
• 21 days for the registrar to process once all documents are in.

With Coromandel, the ₹10 lakh limit is about 514 shares. A ₹1 certificate is usually well inside it. But an old ₹10 certificate multiplies fast: 35 shares from before 1986 are already over the line. Above it, you usually need a succession certificate or legal heir certificate, unless there is a nominee or the other heirs give no-objection. Read the full picture in our guides to transmission of shares and transmission without a succession certificate.

Why not just hand the certificates to a local lawyer or agent?

Because a claim is only as good as the holding traced behind it, and with Coromandel the certificate in your hand is rarely the whole story.

Take a family with a 1980 Coromandel Fertilisers certificate for 100 shares, and an EID Parry certificate from the 1990s. A generalist sees “100 shares” and prices the job on that. The folio actually leads to 1,500 Coromandel shares, about ₹29 lakh. The 1986 bonus certificate and the split certificates were separate papers. And the EID Parry holding brought a second Coromandel folio in 2004 that nobody in the family knows about. Some of it may sit in the suspense account, some in the IEPF, in different years. Unless someone traces it all, it is never claimed. The family ends up back in the queue years later, if it ever finds out.

We work the other way round. We trace the complete holding first: the old name, both bonuses, both splits, the EID Parry shares, any merger shares, every folio, every IEPF transfer. Then a vetted local partner handles the paperwork where you live (affidavits, police report, newspaper notice, succession papers) on the full holding, the first time.

There is also the question of who is paid for what. A lawyer or agent is paid whether or not your shares ever arrive. We are not. Zero advance — you pay only once the shares are credited to your demat account. So we only get paid if the whole chain works.

And the IEPF claim itself is decided in Delhi, where the IEPF Authority sits. Coromandel verifies the claim in Secunderabad, but the file then waits in Delhi for release. Our team is in Delhi, so we can follow your file up in person, not by letter from another city. When it comes to an IEPF claim, what matters is who is closest to the office that holds your file.

The document is only the start. After it come the KYC, the entitlement letter, the verification, the demat credit, and a transmission if the holder has died. Anyone can get you a piece of paper. We get you the shares. See how our IEPF claim service works.

Dates you should know about

27 August 2027 is the date Coromandel has set for its next transfer of shares to the IEPF. It covers folios that have not cashed a dividend since the 2019–20 final dividend. After that, the next batches are due on 8 March 2028 (2020–21 interim dividend) and 29 August 2028 (2020–21 final). Cashing any one dividend before the transfer date keeps the shares with the company, so check now, not after the next batch has moved.

January 2006 and December 2010 are the dates that decide how to read your certificate. A ₹10 certificate is from before 2006 and stands for ten times the shares printed. A ₹2 certificate stands for twice. A ₹1 certificate shows the real number.

4 February 2027 is when SEBI’s special window for old physical transfers closes. It covers transfer deeds signed before 1 April 2019 that were rejected, returned or never processed. One example: Coromandel shares bought on paper and never registered in the buyer’s name. Shares already moved to the IEPF are not covered. The full rules of the window.

Holding other old certificates too? See what an old MRF certificate is worth today, another Chennai company, or how MICO became Bosch. Our guides to share recovery in Hyderabad, where Coromandel and its registrar are, and share recovery in Chennai, home of the Murugappa Group, cover the local side.

Not sure what your Coromandel Fertilisers, EID Parry or Godavari certificate is worth? Start with Find Your Shares →

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I convert Coromandel physical share certificates to demat?
Open a demat account in exactly the name on the certificate, update your KYC with the registrar, KFin Technologies in Hyderabad, using Form ISR-1, then give the certificates to your broker or bank with a Demat Request Form. They send it to the registrar, which checks the folio and signature and credits the shares to your demat account, usually within a few weeks if the papers are in order. A certificate in the old name, Coromandel Fertilisers Limited, does not need to be exchanged first.

Is Coromandel Fertilisers the same as Coromandel International?
Yes. Coromandel Fertilisers Limited changed its name to Coromandel International Limited in September 2009. It is the same listed company and the shares did not change. A Coromandel Fertilisers share certificate is a Coromandel International certificate.

What is the history of Coromandel International share bonuses?
Coromandel, then called Coromandel Fertilisers, issued bonus shares twice: 3 free shares for every 5 held in 1978, and 1 free share for every 2 held in 1986. There has been no bonus share issue since 1986. In 2012 shareholders received bonus debentures, which did not add any shares. With the two later splits included, one share held before 1978 is 24 shares today.

Has Coromandel International ever split its shares?
Twice. In January 2006 each ₹10 share was split into five ₹2 shares, and in December 2010 each ₹2 share was split into two ₹1 shares. The face value has been ₹1 since then. So a ₹10 certificate stands for ten times the number of shares printed on it, and a ₹2 certificate for twice, before counting any bonus.

How many Coromandel shares do old Coromandel Fertilisers shares become today?
It depends on when the shares were first held in your name. Each share held before the 1978 bonus is now 24 shares; between 1978 and 1986, 15; and a ₹10 share from 1986 to 2006, 10. For example, 100 shares bought in 1980 are 1,500 Coromandel International shares today, worth about ₹29 lakh at ₹1,942 a share, the closing price on 24 September 2026.

Did EID Parry shareholders get Coromandel shares?
Yes. EID Parry transferred its farm inputs business to Coromandel, and every EID Parry shareholder on the record date of 2 January 2004 received 1 Coromandel share of ₹10 for every 3 EID Parry shares, on a separate certificate, while keeping their EID Parry shares. After the 2006 and 2010 splits, 300 EID Parry shares held then mean 1,000 Coromandel shares today.

What happened to Godavari Fertilisers, Ficom Organics, Liberty Phosphate and Sabero Organics shares?
All four merged into Coromandel. Ficom Organics shareholders received 3 Coromandel shares of ₹2 for every 11 Ficom shares in 2007. Godavari Fertilisers and Chemicals shareholders received 3 Coromandel shares of ₹2 for every 2 Godavari shares in 2008. Liberty Phosphate shareholders received 7 Coromandel shares of ₹1 for every 8 in 2014, and Sabero Organics Gujarat shareholders 5 Coromandel shares of ₹1 for every 8 in 2015. The ₹2 shares were doubled by the 2010 split.

Who is the registrar (RTA) for Coromandel International?
KFin Technologies Limited in Hyderabad. It was earlier called Karvy Computershare and then Karvy Fintech, so old letters may carry those names. Demat requests, KYC updates, duplicate certificates, transmission and IEPF entitlement requests all go through it.

How do I check if my Coromandel shares have been transferred to the IEPF?
If no dividend on the folio has been cashed for seven years in a row, the shares have very likely been moved to the IEPF. Coromandel’s dividend page lists each year’s transfer date and links to the registrar’s search by folio number or demat ID, and you can search the IEPF Authority’s records at iepfa.gov.in by company and holder name. Search under today’s name, Coromandel International Limited, and under every old spelling of the holder’s name.

When is Coromandel’s next transfer of shares to the IEPF?
Coromandel’s dividend page sets 27 August 2027 as the due date for folios that have not cashed a dividend since the 2019–20 final dividend. The previous batch was due on 23 August 2026. Coromandel moves shares twice a year, after its interim and final dividends. Cashing any one dividend before the transfer date keeps the shares with the company.

How do I claim Coromandel shares from the IEPF?
Open a demat account, complete KYC with the registrar and send Coromandel the documents for an entitlement letter. Then file Form IEPF-5 on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs website and send the signed form, an indemnity bond, an advance receipt, your ID, a cancelled cheque, the client master list and the entitlement letter to Coromandel’s Nodal Officer at its registered office in Secunderabad. Coromandel verifies the claim and the IEPF Authority releases the shares and dividends to your demat account.

What do I get back from the IEPF for Coromandel shares: shares or money?
The shares themselves, credited to your demat account, together with the dividends the IEPF holds on them, which are refunded as money. Once the shares are in demat you can keep them or sell them at the market price, which was about ₹1,942 a share on 24 September 2026.

I have lost my Coromandel share certificate. What do I do?
If the shares are still with the company, open a demat account, then apply to the registrar for duplicate shares with Form ISR-4. Up to ₹10 lakh, about 514 Coromandel shares at today’s price, you need a standard affidavit-cum-indemnity bond. Above ₹10 lakh you also need a police report and a newspaper notice. If the shares have already gone to the IEPF, you do not need a duplicate: you claim with Form IEPF-5 instead.

How long does it take to recover Coromandel shares from the IEPF?
The rules allow the company 15 days to send its verification report and the IEPF Authority 60 days to decide, so about 75 days on paper. In practice claims often take much longer, usually because documents go back and forth between the claimant, the company and the Authority.

Is Coromandel Engineering the same as Coromandel International?
No. Coromandel Engineering Company Limited is a separate listed company with its own register and its own unclaimed dividend lists. Its shares are not Coromandel International shares.

Do I have to pay SharesRecover anything upfront?
No. Zero advance — you pay only once the shares are credited to your demat account.