Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 13: As part of this endeavour, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is setting up a pavilion ‘Bharat Ka Share Bazaar’ at the 41st India International Trade Fair (IITF- 2022) from tomorrow to 27th November 2022 in New Delhi.
Along with SEBI, other Market Infrastructure Institutions and Industry Associations viz. NSE, BSE, NSDL, CDSL, AMFI, NCDEX, MCX, CPAI and ANMI are also participating.
The theme of the event for this year is ‘Nivesh Ka Amritkal’. SEBI in its efforts towards spreading investor education and awareness has conducted over 47,000 workshops all over the country since 2019. These included workshops through webinars as well. Various investor friendly reforms have been introduced by SEBI to further strengthen investor protection and enhance fairness, transparency and integrity of the securities market.
SEBI has also implemented many initiatives through the use of technology like screen based trading, dematerialization of securities, rolling settlement, straight through processing, SCORES mechanism, ASBA facility, KRA mechanism, E-KYC etc.
This apart, SEBI has implemented an investor helpline in 14 languages, an online grievance redressal system i.e. SCORES (SEBI Complaints Redress System), introduction of SCORES app, sending end of day alerts by SMS/emails to investors regarding transactions entered on their behalf, increasing the number of arbitration centers across multiple towns etc.
In order to further augment its efforts to protect investors’ interest, promote transparency in markets and enhance awareness, trust and confidence among the investors, SEBI initiated the “Investor Charter” and launched “Saa¹ thi”-SEBI’s Mobile App which aims to create awareness among the investors about the basic concepts of Securities Market, KYC Processes, trading and settlement, mutual funds, recent market developments etc.
SEBI also launched “Manthan”-An Ideathon to foster innovation for effective regulation of the market, while lowering the cost of compliance for the market participants. More recently, SEBI has also introduced SMARTs programme for enhancing the Investor Education activities, e-KYC, pledge of margin obligations, facilitated ease in investing in IPOs, reforms in Mutual Funds space such as introducing risk-o-meter tool to help investors make better decisions about their investments in mutual funds etc.
During the event at ITPO, SEBI, MIIs and Industry Associations will be organising activities such as talk shows by market experts, quizzes, skits, muppet shows, visuals on investor awareness, display of major investor friendly policies and facilities and demo of SCORES which will inform the investors about the Indian securities market, provide information for various products, spread investor education and awareness including cautioning the public against illegal money mobilization schemes.
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