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 Form 24G File Validation Utility (FVU) has been developed by NSDL to ensure that the Form 24G prepared conforms to the prescribed file format notified by Income Tax Department (ITD). Accounts Office (AO) shall validate the monthly Form 24G using FVU before furnishing the statement with a TIN-Facilitation Center. It should be noted that the FVU validates only the format level accuracy of Form 24G.

There are two fields in the input screen of the FVU:

Input File

Error/Upload & Statistics Report File

1.      Input File:

a.       Specify the name (with the .txt extension) of the input file (including the path) i.e. the name of the 24G statement prepared as per file format to be validated through the FVU.

b.       Input filename should not be more than 12 characters (including the .txt extension) and should not contain any special characters eg. : , \ / etc.

For example Filename can be 24GJAN10.txt

2.      Error/Upload & Statistics Report File:

a.      Specify the path where either an 'error' or 'upload & statistics report files' generated by the FVU on completion of validation should be saved.

b.      The path can be same as the input file path or different. 

c.       Do not specify any filename, only provide the path.


Error File:

In case of an invalid file (not as per the file format), an 'error file' will be generated. 

1.      This will be an html file (24GJAN10err.html) with the same filename as the input file with err appended after the file name and html as extension.

2.      The error file will contain details of erroneous records like Line no., record type, field name, transaction detail (DDO) no., along with the error code and the corresponding error description.

In case the AO finds any error(s) he shall rectify the error(s) and pass the file again through FVU. AO shall repeat this procedure till he gets an error free Form 24G. 

Upload & Statistics Report File:

In case the input file is valid, FVU will generate three files:

1.      'Form 24G Statement Statistics Report' (24GJAN10.html) is a summary of the 24G statement successfully validated by the FVU. The naming convention of the statistics report is filename.html wherein filename is provided by the AO.

2.      'Upload file' (24GJAN10.fvu) is generated with the same filename as the 'input file' but with extension .fvu

  It is a valid statement containing values generated by the FVU which indicates that the statement has been successfully validated through the FVU. No modifications should be made in the upload file .fvu

3.      24G Statement Form (24GJAN1024G.html) displays all the details (i.e. AO & DDO details) entered by Accounts Office in a statement. (Not to be submitted along with the FVU file, only for record purpose of AO). The naming convention of the 24G Statement Form is filename24G.html wherein filename is provided by the AO.

Points to remember:

Accounts Officers are advised to match totals and other AO details (like Name, AIN, F.Y., Month) with 24G Statement Statistics Report. 
The .fvu file is to be submitted to a TIN-FC in a CD along with duly signed 24G Statement Statistics Report. 
