(a) whether the number of investors in Mumbai Stock Exchange has gone down during the last
10 years;
(b) if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor; and
(c) the measures taken by the Government to improve the confidence of the common
investors?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI NAMO NARAIN MEENA)
(a) Mumbai Stock Exchange (BSE) does not have data on the number of investors for the last
10 years. However, data is available since 2004 when client code registration was introduced.
The data since 2004 would indicate that there has been a steady increase in the number of
client code registrations in the last 7 years, during which such registrations increased by
around 28 times, as would be evident from the table below.
SI.No. Registration of client code Nos.
1 Upto 31-12-2004 636,509
2 Upto 31-12-2005 13,29,675
3 Upto 31-12-2006 35,07,287
4 Upto 31-12-2007 92,24,804
5 Upto 31-12-2008 1,36,70,565
6 Upto 31-12-2009 1,62,23,436
7 Upto 31-10-2010 1,84,28,313