India has two big stock exchanges. They are Bombay Stock Exchange - BSE and National Stock Exchange – NSE and few small exchanges are also there in India. Of the 23 stock exchanges in the India however 4 of them closed permanently, Mumbai's (earlier known as Bombay), Bombay Stock Exchange is the largest, with over 6,000 stocks listed. The BSE accounts for over two thirds of the total trading volume in the country. Established in 1875, the exchange is also the oldest in Asia. Among the twenty-two Stock Exchanges recognized by the Government of India under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, it was the first one to be recognized and it is the only one that had the privilege of getting permanent recognition ab-initio.
The Stock Exchanges of India are
1. Ahmedabad Stock Exchange Ltd. – Ahmedabad
2. Bangalore Stock Exchange Ltd. – Bangalore
3. Bhubaneshwar Stock Exchange Ltd. – Bhubaneswar
4. Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. – Mumbai
5. Cochin Stock Exchange Ltd. – Cochin
6. Gauhati Stock Exchange Ltd. – Guwahati
7. Inter connected Stock Exchange of India Ltd. – Mumbai
8. Jaipur Stock Exchange Ltd. – Jaipur
9. Madhya Pradesh Stock Exchange Ltd. – Indore
10. Madras Stock Exchange Ltd. – Chennai
11. MCX Stock Exchange Ltd. – Mumbai
12. National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. – Mumbai
13. OTC Exchange of India – Mumbai
14. Pune Stock Exchange Ltd. – Pune
15. The Calcutta Stock Exchange Association Ltd. – kolkata
16. The Delhi Stock Exchange Ltd. – Delhi
17. The Ludhiana Stock Exchange Ltd. – Ludhiana
18. The Uttar Pradesh Stock Exchange Association Ltd. - Kanpur
19. Vadodara Stock Exchange Ltd. – Vadodara
STOCK EXCHANGES OF INDIA
