SEBI Launches Nationwide Investor Awareness Campaign Project Jagrook Until March 2027

Key facts

• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey launched the nationwide investor-awareness campaign 'Project Jagrook' in Chandigarh, which will run through March 2027.
• Project Jagrook brings SEBI, stock exchanges, depositories, the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) and the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) under a coordinated investor-education framework, propagating messages in several languages.
• SEBI will take investor education to universities through its MUST (Mentoring of University and College Students through Trainers) programme, training teachers, staff and senior students as 'Partner Trainers'.
• For rural India, SEBI will work with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj on financial literacy, awareness of regulated products and fraud-prevention messages, and partner with state governments and local channels.
• SEBI will introduce a National Securities Market Awareness Curriculum supported by a free SEBI Investor Awareness Test.
• SEBI's Investor Survey 2025 found that only 36 per cent of investors had high or moderate knowledge of the securities market.