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How to check your KYC status for a Zerodha account

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You check your KYC status for a Zerodha account on a KYC Registration Agency (KRA) portal, not inside Zerodha itself, because the status that controls your trading is held at the KRA, not by the broker. Enter the PAN registered on your account at any one of the five KRA websites, CVLKRA, NDML KRA, CAMSKRA, KFin (Karvy) or DotEx, and the portal returns one of a short list of statuses: Validated, Registered, On Hold, Rejected or Under Process. This guide shows the exact lookup, explains what each status means for your ability to trade, and tells you what to do when the status is anything other than Validated.

eKYC vs offline KYC at Zerodha

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Know Your Client (KYC) is the identity-verification step every Indian market intermediary must complete before opening a trading or demat account , and at Zerodha it runs through one of two paths: Aadhaar-based electronic KYC (eKYC) pulled through DigiLocker, or offline KYC built on printed, signed and attested physical forms. Both satisfy the same regulatory requirement set by SEBI in its Master Circular on KYC norms for the securities market dated October 2023, and both end at a KYC Registration Agency (KRA) that validates and stores the record. The two paths differ in how identity is captured, who can use each, and how long they take.

Why Zerodha collects PAN and Aadhaar through DigiLocker

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DigiLocker is a Government of India platform run by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under the Digital India Programme that issues and verifies official documents digitally and shares them with a requester only after the document holder gives consent. When you open an account at Zerodha , the broker uses DigiLocker as the route to pull a digitally signed Aadhaar straight from UIDAI , and it separately fetches permanent account number (PAN) details straight from the Income Tax Department. This article explains what DigiLocker is, why a stock broker relies on it for paperless eKYC , what data actually changes hands, the consent and privacy model behind it, and how the DigiLocker pull differs from a plain Aadhaar OTP eKYC.