Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Government of India

Published by

Editor :
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PRIME Database
Under the aegis of Investor Education and Protection Fund.

Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Government of India

Published by

Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Government of India
Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001

MESSAGE
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided to mainstream the investor awareness
program as a national agenda during the current financial year. For this purpose, we
have partnered with a number of institutions who will be organizing more than
3,000 investor programmes throughout the country during the current financial
year. We are also organizing the 'India Investor Week' during July 2010 with the
theme 'Informed investor an Asset to Corporate India'. The Ministry is bringing out
a comprehensive investor guide on this occasion which will help the aam aadmi
desirous of making investments to understand their rights and responsibilities as
well as various investment instruments along with their associated risks and returns.
I am sure that the publication of this Book will be a significant step in spreading
awareness on investor issues and will help in integrating the common man into the
corporate economy of the country.

Salman Khurshid
Minister of State (I/C) for
Corporate Affairs

Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Government of India
Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001

MESSAGE
With a view to convert the investor education and awareness programme of the
Ministry into a mass movement, it has been decided to upscale this initiative in a big
way and to bring a number of organizations as partners in this area. In order to
educate the investors in an easy to understand manner, the Ministry has decided to
bring out a book that provides lucid information on various investment instruments
and the rights and responsibilities associated with each one of them. The
publication of this book will help in encouraging a much larger number of common
people to participate in the corporate economy. This will be a small contribution by
the Ministry of Corporate Affairs towards the national agenda of inclusive growth. I
am sure that a large number of investors existing and potential will benefit from
the content of this Book which has been edited by Shri Prithvi Haldea, a noted expert
on the subject.

R. Bandyopadhyay
Secretary,
Ministry of Corporate Affairs

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