An Insight into Investors’ Awareness Programmes: With Reference to the Programmes Conducted By SEBI

Abstract

The scope of social responsibility has been widening and it is not a mere philanthropy now. It has become an emerging trend not only for the corporate but for various other entities or institutions. The regulatory bodies in our country, monitoring various activities in micro and macro level on behalf of the Government, are also not out of it. They have taken various initiatives to maintain social responsibilities regarding the investors’ education and protection and Investors awareness programmes (IAP) are one of them. In India, it is the most popular way to spread financial awareness which can reach a large section of people who are investors and major stakeholders of the society at large. Now, different regulatory and professional bodies like Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MOCA), Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) etc. are arranging these IAPs in all over India. Here, this study is concerning about the detailed research relating to IAPs conducted by Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for spreading financial awareness among different categories of investors in India as a part of their social responsibility to protect investors’ interest and the study also aims to focus on the success rate of these programmes and how that success can be identified in terms of improved financial awareness of the concerned investors and also the role of resource persons in that success of IAPs.