Amway India supports IAB for a workshop on Investor Education and Financial planning for visually impaired organized by SEBI

INN/Chennai, @infodeaofficial

Workshop aims to create awareness on importance of savings and investment options along with the role of SEBI as a regulator and grievance redressal mechanism

Amway India, the country’s largest FMCG Direct Selling company, today facilitated an Investor Education & Financial planning workshop for its NGO partner Indian Association of Blind (IAB) in Chennai. The workshop saw active participation from more than 50 Visually Impaired (VI) students from IAB and Loyala College at the Loyala College campus in Chennai. Securities and Market Regulator- Security Exchange Board of India (SEBI), conducted this workshop as part of its drive to create awareness on Financial planning & savings among VI community and thus increase their participation in securities market.

On this unique initiative, Rajat Banerji, National Head, Corporate Affairs, Amway India said, “We have been working incessantly working towards the welfare of the visually impaired since 1996 with the aim to facilitate education and economic independence for them Our endeavour has been to bring some meaningful difference in the lives  of the VI people and today’s workshop on Investor education & financial planning is one such step in that direction. We applaud and appreciate the efforts undertaken by SEBI for expanding its outreach to people with disabilities and empowering them with knowledge to secure their economic independence.”

He further added, “Indian Association for the Blind (NAB) has been working relentlessly towards efficiently engaging the visually impaired people across the state of Tamil Nadu. Partnering with IAB in TN is one of the best ways to channelize the efforts of SEBI to educate them on basics of investments & savings through securities markets, which is crucial to secure their financial future. At Amway, we are committed to provide all the support to IAB to access this special financial education workshop and thus maximize its benefit for visually impaired people in TN”

SEBI’s extensive awareness programme is targeted at different participants starting from college students to government employees, private sector employees, self-employed, retirees, women and so on. The 3 hours long workshop was conducted by Mr. Rahul Kelapure, SEBI’s first Visually impaired Grade B legal officer, who covered details around the importance of financial security and planning along with basics of securities market. He further delved deeper into the information on various investment avenues such as shares, mutual funds among other investment options. In addition to these, the workshop also covered the roles and responsibilities of SEBI as a regulator and highlighted the grievance redressal mechanism set up for investors’ complaints.

Commenting on the workshop, Rahul Kelapure, Legal Officer, SEBI, said, “The purpose of the workshop is to make the visually challenged participants aware about investment opportunities available in the securities market and equip them with the right kind of knowledge. Through this, they can start investing in the securities market which will help them become independent in making their investment choices and become responsible in the money matters.”  

Commenting on the workshop experience, Ms. Roshan Fatima, General Secretary, IAB said, “We are glad that the Indian securities market regulator, SEBI has zoomed its focus on persons with disabilities and launched an extensive investor education and financial planning program specially devised for them. We are thankful to Amway for supporting us on this initiative. Our first workshop in Chennai received a great response and was quite insightful to understand the basics of investment and opportunities available in the securities market for investments. While VI persons are progressing by gaining knowledge and education which serves as a base for securing economic independence, I am sure, further knowledge on investments and market will prove to be beneficial to secure their financial future.”