India’s leading stock exchange, the National Stock Exchange, conducts many initiatives in different parts of the country to empower the youth and professionals with financial education so that they can take good financial decisions.

One such initiative is being carried out in 200 schools across 15 cities. This financial education drive in schools is addressed at students of classes 8 and 9, through which they are familiarised with basic concepts of finance like needs and wants, inflation, interest rate, value of money etc.

This is the second year that this initiative is being conducted. This year, more than 40,000 students is being covered in cities like Ahmedabad, Indore, Raipur, Dehradun, Lucknow, Nagpur, apart from some metros and tier II and tier III cities.

The initiative includes multiple programmes to sensitise students on the basics of finance as an essential life skill.

The workshop for students focuses on the concepts of financial planning, called the “The Three Jars: Spend, Save and Grow.”

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As a part of this initiative, NSE also conducts special two-hour movie screenings for the students on inspiring global business leaders like Bill Gates to motivate young peopleto follow their dreams. This is followed by a project, in which students choose a career option of their choice and plan running a simulated business, in which they will have to work out logistics like where will they get the finance, capital and resources from, where will they get labour from etc. This will help in training children to think about how businesses are run, and the kind of challenges that are faced in the course of running a business.

The next workshop called Junior Economist focuses on economics where students are taught about trade, demand- supply and are given a brief on banking.

NSE has also introduced a website for educating India’s young on financial basics, called www.nsefunancialquest.com. This interactive website is designed in such a way that it reaches out to educate a large number of students and explains the basics of finance to them at an early stage.

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