Mar 24, 2013

Minimum Public Float stipulation, 190 companies still don’t care SEBI

Minimum Public Float stipulation, 190 companies still don’t care SEBI;
The information was provided by  Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot in Lok Sabha in a written reply of a question asked to him.
According to Sebi, companies could meet the norms by many routes including Offer for Sale, Institutional Placement Programme, bonus and rights issues to public shareholders.In a circular issued in August 2012, the market regulator had said that companies seeking to achieve MPS by ways, other than prescribed, could approach it.
The answer also noted that It is also mentioned in the circular that listed entities desirous of seeking any relaxation from the available methods may approach Sebi with appropriate details. So we can confer that there will be more extensions to many companies in specific or another extension to deadline in general for the MPS stipulatin.


The SEBI stretched the minimum public float requirement for listed firms one year in 2012 for their convenience till June 2013. But it looks after two years of extension of limit, still many companies don’t care about it.
As on December, 2012 at total of 190 companies, including 14 PSUs, are yet to meet this minimum prescribed public shareholding norms. As on that date these stake was worth Rs.30,000 crore.  Sebi has also initiated consultations with non-compliant companies to resolve all outstanding issues for ensuring adherence to this requirement. But it is highly contemptuous as the market condition of debt as well as equity does not seem to be very good for a fund raising or stake dilution even environment.

BSE India Web Review


BSE and NSE are the two main bourses in India (while the third MCX-SX is just on the way to open). Out of it, BSE is the oldest stock exchange of Asia while second oldest in the whole world founded in 1875.
In this article we are going to give review on www.bseindia.com which is the official website of Bombay Stock Exchange India Ltd.
BSE website is worth a huge applaud (same with NSE), when they are compared with their counterparts in other countries. BSE website is more featureful and useful to not just investors, and traders and general public trying to find general information but also the professionals in capital markets.
BSE has this ‘Market Galaxy’ window on its home page which pops open when you click on ‘full view’ option. This gives the names of the stocks along with the happenings like high turnover than usual, yearly high, yearly low, lifetime high, lifetime low etc. This helps user to find the most active stocks. This feature also adds curiosity excitement to its website use.