What Is Sensex

The Sensex has been steadily rising in the post-liberalisation period. Off late the share market graphic index has been registering an upwardly mobile trend at a remarkable rate. Now, that it has crossed the psychological 10,000 mark, some sort of public awareness programme should be undertaken by the Union Finance Ministry, to allow the laymen to understand the implications of such a phenomenon on different segments of the society. Otherwise, a vast majority of the Indian population having access to news media but unaware of the basics of the share market will continue to regard Sensex news to be directed primarily at the moneyed few.