Objectives of Securities and Exchange Board
Its main objective is to promote orderly and healthy growth of securities and to provide protection to the investors. The overall objective of SEBI is to protect the interests of investors and to promote the development of, and regulate the securities market. This may be elaborated as follows:
- To regulate stock exchanges and the securities industry to promote their orderly functioning.
- To prevent trading malpractices.
- To protect the rights and interests of investors, particularly individual investors and to guide and educate them.
- To prevent trading malpractices and achieve a balance between self regulation by the security
- To establish a balance between statutory regulation and self regulation by the securities industry.ies industry and its statutory regulation.
- To regulate and develop a code of conduct and fair practices by intermediaries like brokers, merchant bankers etc., with a view to making them competitive and professional.
