Students and professionals in Bhopal can now look forward to a career in the financial sector, because India’s leading stock exchange, the National Stock Exchange (NSE), has an NSE Certified Market Professional (NCMP) centre in Bhopal, where they can appear for different market modules and get certification from NSE, to become eligible for jobs in the BFSI sector.
NCFM, or NSE’s Certification in Financial Markets, is an online testing and certification programme, which gives candidates expertise in financial markets on the capital markets, derivatives, mutual funds, currency, technical and fundamental analysis and several other areas.
Bhopal is an important manufacturing hub and is famous for its handicraft work like zardosi. It is also an important educational centre which is home to a large number of technical, management and medical institutes of learning.
Notably, NSE runs more than 150 NCFM centers in different parts of the country, especially in tier two and tier three towns.Apart from Bhopal, candidates in Madhya Pradesh can also appear for the tests in Indore, Jabalpur, Rewa and Mandsaur. In Bhopal, close to 9,481 tests have been conducted so far and in the State of Madhya Pradesh, close to 38,226 tests have been conducted.
The Bhopal centre was launched in January 2005 and there is tremendous potential for students and employees to use this opportunity to enhance their skills. NSE has conducted more than 17 lakh such tests all over India, from the time the certification courses were launched in 1998.