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Securities and Exchange Board of India

Regulatory body for securities and commodity market in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the regulatory body for securities and commodity market in India under the administrative domain of Ministry of Finance within the Government of India. It was established on 12-April-1988 as an executive body and was given statutory powers on 30-January-1992 through the SEBI Act, 1992.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Securities and Exchange Board of India” as regulatory body for securities and commodity market in India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Securities, Exchange and Board can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as regulatory body for securities and commodity market in India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1992.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Securities and Exchange Board of India” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.