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The capital market in India has grown significantly, but there are areas of weaknesses that are being addressed right now, the head of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said on Monday.
“We have grown quite a bit in the capital market and its penetration, but there are areas of weakness,” SEBI Chairman, Mr U.K. Sinha, said in his address to the day-long conference on the ‘US-India Economic and Financial Partnership’ organised jointly by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Brookings Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
“These areas of weakness become very stark if we discover that there are segments of the geography where a lot of activities are talking place both by way of surplus money which can be invested and also by way of need for raising money,” he said.
“The approach of the regulator is to provide more and more products. The approach is to provide simplification and convenience to the investors going forward. The approach is also to encourage corporates to raise money domestically,” Mr Sinha said in his key note address to the panel discussion on ‘Increasing Access to Capital to Stimulate Sustainable Economic Growth: The Road to Deepening India’s Capital Markets’
Observing that a “very, very large” portion of the capital market is concentrated in the eight to ten large cities of India, Mr Sinha said there will be a need to deepen the access of the capital market to small markets and rural areas.
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