For promoting a balanced pan-India Securities market and in order to bring physical proximity of offices of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to the investors and intermediaries, SEBI has decided to open its local office in State of Uttarakhand at Dehradun on Saturday. The mandate entrusted to SEBI by the parliament is three fold - protection of the interests of the investors in securities, regulation of the securities market and the development of the securities market.
Ex-IAS and Chief State Information commission (SIC) NS Napalchayal will inaugurate the SEBI local office at Dehradun in the presence of UK Sinha, Chairman SEBI. The Dehradun local Office of SEBI would be located at: 2nd Floor, Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam Building, 74/1, Rajpur Road, and Dehradun - 248001
This office would facilitate the redressal of investor grievances against listed companies and market intermediaries, spread investor education and financial literacy, processing the applications for investment advisors within its jurisdiction and such other functions as may be delegated from time to time to the local offices.