India Stock Exchanges

India Stock Exchanges are a structured marketplace for the proper conduct of trading in company stocks and other securities. There are 23 recognized stock exchanges in India, including the Over the Counter Exchange of India for providing trading access to small and new companies. The main services of the India Stock Exchanges all over the country is to provide nation-wide services to investors and to facilitate the issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments.

The introduction of the concept of the stock exchanges in India came with the breaking of the American Civil War and the idea materialized first in 1874 with the foundation of the Bombay Stock Exchange at the Dalal Street in Mumbai.

Currently, in all the India Stock Exchanges the trading system is computerized for more efficient and transparent trading. There has been a significant boom in the degree of development and volume of trading in the stock exchanges .
The two most important exchange houses of the Indian stock market are the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange . Many of the regional stock exchanges have obtained the membership of these two stock exchanges in India. The index of the Bombay Stock Exchange , BSE Sensex is a value-weighted index composed of 30 companies.

Another significant feature of the India Stock Exchanges is the regulatory agency, Securities and Exchange Board of India or SEBI which supervises the activities of stock markets, regulates the functioning of stock exchanges and intermediaries and registers Foreign Investors trading in Indian scrips .